Word-hoard

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Thanks to Language Hat, I've discovered a wonderful two-volume work, Reliquiæ Antiquæ. It contains short stretches of works in the borderland between Latin Old English, and Middle English. The contents are extremely various: among other things, there are morality tales, schoolboy mnemonics and satires, some dirty bits protected by a simple substitution cypher, and dictionaries for translating Latin into Old and Middle English. It's a wonderful miscellany; the schoolboy mistakes crack me up. Highly recommended