sumer is icumen in

[coraa]

Sumer is icumen in,
Lhude sing cuccu!
Groweþ sed and bloweþ med
And springþ þe wde nu,
Sing cuccu!
Awe bleteþ after lomb,
Lhouþ after calue cu.
Bulluc sterteþ, bucke uerteþ,
Murie sing cuccu!
Cuccu, cuccu, wel þu singes cuccu;
Ne swik þu nauer nu.
Sing cuccu nu. Sing cuccu.
Sing cuccu. Sing cuccu nu!

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[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

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[coraa.livejournal.com]

:D

♥

[rowr.livejournal.com]

i found it on youtube, it's quite cheery!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJvF9xucG90

I wonder sometimes if I could have an ok conversation with peoples that far back in the day.. seems like based on what I could decipher from the lyrics it would be tough but possible to get basic stuff across?

ps. I posted about þ cause I thought it was interesting, hope that's ok. :)

[coraa.livejournal.com]

I think you could probably understand simple sentences/concepts sortakinda, if you could get them to speak very slowly and repeat themselves (the accent would probably be a problem, otherwise), but making yourself understood would be quite a bit harder!

And yes, that's more than fine! I'm glad I got someone else thinking about it. :D

[gaudior.livejournal.com]

O my gods, how did you get it to make a thorn? I didn't know lj knew how to make a thorn!

Also, yay summer!

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

There's a thorn in my flist!

I want to know how, too.

Levis exsurgit zephirus,
et sol procedit tepidus...

[coraa.livejournal.com]

:D

It's & thorn ; only with the spaces out, or & THORN ; if you want a capital.

The best guide I've found to making special characters in HTML is the Unicode Characters as Named and Numeric HTML Entities page, which means that if the mood strikes I can write stuff in Ogham or the Runic alphabet, too!

[gaudior.livejournal.com]

Oh, awesome! Þank you!

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Yay summer!

I used the HTML Unicode for it, which is & thorn ; except you have to take the spaces out. Like so: þ

If you make it capital, like & THORN ; you get a capital of it, like so: Þ

You can actually do all kinds of nifty things with fonts that support unicode (which most standard ones do), if you're willing to look up the codes for them. Ogham (ᚕ ᚌ ᚘ) or Runic (ᚱ ᚡ ᛘ) or Telugu (త వ ఋ) or a whole bunch of other things, too. The best guide I've found is the Unicode Characters as Named and Numeric HTML Entities page.

[http://users.livejournal.com/greensleeves_/]

*digs up a virginal, religious zealot jerk of a policeman and sticks him in the Wicker Man*

[thegreatgonz.livejournal.com]

Hee hee. We used to sing that in elementary school :-)

[thumbie.livejournal.com]

Hey, me "too"! =D