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Subject: Re: [OM] Earsling (Was Scottish weather)
From: ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 19:06:57 +0000
So many book suggestions!  I should have asked months ago.

Chris

> On 10 Feb 2016, at 17:47, Bob Whitmire <fujixbob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Further research suggests earsling as the original Old English word, literal 
> meaning backwards, or of the back. It appears first in a translation of 
> Psalms, possibly by Alfred the Great. More recent shift shows spelling as 
> arseling, meaning, well, you know what it means. 
> 
> The word first came to my attention in Bernard Cornwell's Last Kingdom 
> novels, which have been produced for television by the BBC. Cornwell surmises 
> the correct pronunciation as er-sling. 
> 
> I like these books. The protagonist is Uthred of Bebbanburg (Bamburg), a 
> Saxon child captured and raised by Danes who nevertheless finds himself as 
> the only heathen in the pious Alfred's entourage. (Humm. Why does Bob like 
> Uthred?)
> 
> What may be the final installment of the books is either just out or soon to 
> be. At any rate, earsling, or arseling, is now a part of my permanent 
> vocabulary.  Thank you, Mr Cornwell, and thank _you_ Alfred of Wessex. 
> 

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