Medieval Scripts and Scraps

The benefits of reading a translated text with the original language beside it is hard to explain, but I suppose it can best be summed up here. The Blickling Homilies, “Dominica Pasca (Easter Day),” includes the line: “Ond seo openung ∂aes dæges is swi∂e egesfull eallum gesceaftum.” The translators, who always have a hard job…