ENGL 357 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Geoffrey Chaucer, Yogh, Germanic Languages
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Multilingual, but his surviving works are all in english. His two most famous works are troilus and criseyde and the canterbury tales. So lice on am dagum w s geworden gebod fram am casere augusto. T eall ymbehwyrft w re tomearcod; (luke 2:1, wessex gospels) Forso e it is do(cid:374), i(cid:374) o da is a (cid:373)au(cid:374)de(cid:373)e(cid:374)t (cid:449)e(cid:374)te out fro (cid:272)esar august, at al e world shulde ben discriued, (luke 2:1, wycliffite bible) And it came to passe in those dayes, that there went out a decree from. Caesar augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (luke 2:1, king james version) Of many battles that have been and men have conquered this land. First, as you have heard, the emperors of rome. Then the saxons and angles with battles strong, And then those of denmark that held it so long, At last those of normandy that be yet here.
