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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 9h

Other features:
Quiet beauty, quiet echoes, quiet everything
Incessant tricolon/rule of three
Non-contrastive 'but'
Alliteration and consonance
This wasn't just x - this was y
Echoes through the centuries, its story lives on, legacy of the land
Semantic uncanny valley
From x to y, this is z

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 10h

A local history group I follow has started churning out ai assisted posts. They're all written in that easy to parody, faux profound style - this wasn't just a castle; it was a place of connection. I've not been able to find much published on the stylistics of ai slop. Any recommendations?

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 1d

222: brimclifu blican beorgas steape

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 1d

A thread of Beowulf verses I like

28: hi hyne ða ætbæron to brimes faroðe

32: ðær æt hyðe stod hringedstefna
33: isig ond utfus æðelinges fær

102: wæs se grimma gæst grendel haten

147: twelf wintra tid torn geðolode

210b: flota wæs on yðum

218: flota famiheals fugle gelicost

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 1d

CLASP (A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry) has, among other things, a full scansion of Beowulf!

clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/db-latest/po...

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Hwæt! @hwaet.info · 11d

"What ho!"
Beowulf, a New Verse Translation for Fireside and Classroom, 1923
William Ellery Leonard 🇬🇧

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Hwæt! @hwaet.info · 2d

"What!"
Beowulf, 1921
Charles Scott Moncrieff 🇬🇧

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 2d

In fact, it's hard to hear one n let alone two. Sounds a bit like 'party i' the...' to me

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 2d

There's no way I can hear this as 'partyin' in'

youtu.be/R2-yomhYAj4

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 2d

The k standing for kurz 'short', as opposed to A2a, which also has the form /\/x

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 2d

Getting better at OE scansion. Good enough to think 'magodriht micel' is odd. Not yet good enough to identity it as type A2k without Google

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 2d

Today's post

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Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social · 5d

The largest island in #Orkney, Mainland, is called Hrossey in two sagas. Such names with animal specifics are commonly of quite small islands. Gammeltoft suggested that 'an original Pictish element, e.g. *ros „moor, plain‟ might hide itself behind the specific', reinterpreted by Norse speakers.

Dictionary of Old Norse Prose @onp.ku.dk · 6d

Yesterday’s #Wordle: hross (sb. n.): 83 cits, e.g. (horse as working animal/item of value/trade commodity) horse, riding horse, draught horse // (hest som brugsdyr/værdigenstand/handelsvare) hest, ridehest, transporthest ‘ha̋lft fimmta hundrad j hrossum’ (DI in AM 263 fol) onp.ku.dk/o37049

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 5d

Mais où sont les neiges d'antan
youtu.be/88sARuFu-tc

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Corinna @shroomgirl.bsky.social · 8d

Biggest surprise in #Eday today, while photographing the old North School, was what was inside! Other than the classroom with scale model of it and the attached house... was a submarine... a real one! Reconstructed inside the building! Well worth a visit (not to mention all the models).

Reconstruction of an Otter submarine inside the old North School House, Eday. Open to the public and well worth a visit. Lovely owner happy to show you aound it and his Lovely garden filled with models of windmills, castles, light houses and house.

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 5d

Spent all this time thinking Kelis was singing "You want me to teach thee". Gutted to discover it's just the boring old definite article

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Anglesey History @angleseyhistory.bsky.social · 9d

Help save local Welsh placenames on new digital map.
Helpu i achub enwau lleoedd lleol Cymru ar fap digidol newydd.
datamap.gov.wales/survey/wpnc/...

Record Welsh Place Names | DataMapWales

datamap.gov.wales

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 6d

Will report back

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 6d

Addressed by Frog here

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 6d

Do we know why dróttkvætt has
aðalhending in even lines given that Germanic alliterative verse is front weighted? It feels like skothending would be a better fit for even lines. Is it to set up contrast/balance between the number of alliterating staves?

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 6d

This is all based on OS1 & 2 data. The Carrick project is much more in depth, but there aren't enough lifetimes to do that for all of southern Scotland. However, it would be great to compare notes if you do have a look, especially names that didn't make it to the OS

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 6d

Lanarkshire's on my to-do list but I keep getting distracted by other projects

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Andy - Lowland Gaelic @a-ghalldachd.bsky.social · 6d

John MacInnes/Iain MacAonghuis writes in his 'Gaelic Perception of the Lowlands' essay -
"Some years ago I heard Gaelic speakers in Arran describe the entire stretch of coastline from Galloway to Ayrshire as part of the Gàidhealtachd"

dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 6d

Nothing set in stone yet but in terms of the names that make it to the OS we have 929 unique Gaelic names out of the ~3000 total names on map. I don't have the number of total unique names yet but it will be a lot less than 300. However, as you can see from this map, it's a hotbed

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 6d

Some small place-names from the 2nd edition of the OS

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 6d

Nothing set in stone yet but in terms of the names that make it to the OS we have 929 unique Gaelic names out of the ~3000 total names on map. I don't have the number of total unique names yet but it will be a lot less than 300. However, as you can see from this map, it's a hotbed

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