A parishioner who has my Anglo-Saxon text handed me a note this morning at church.
“Is there such a thing as a modern English version of The Canterbury Tales? I have these guilts about never having read Chaucer but I was talked out of learning Early Anglo-Saxon/-Middle English by a friend who had to take it for her Ph.D. They told her to write an essay in Anglo-Saxon on any-subject-of-her-own-choosing. ‘Which is all very well,” she said bitterly, ‘but the only subject you can find enough words for is ‘How to Slaughter a Thousand Men in a Mead Hall'” (Helene Hanff, 84, Charing Cross Road, 1959).
Yeah, well, you should get my text anyway.