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Real0ne -> RE: Patrick Henry is top shelf! (7/22/2011 12:59:23 AM)
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quote:
ORIGINAL: mnottertail
Of ðissum anum dome mon mæg geðencean, þæt he æghwelcne on ryht gedemeð; ne ðearf he nanra domboca oþerra. Geðence he, þæt he nanum men ne deme þæt he nolde ðæt he him demde, gif he ðone dom ofer hine sohte. Siððan ðæt þa gelamp, þæt monega ðeoda Cristes geleafan onfengon, þa wurdon monega seonoðas geond ealne middangeard gegaderode, 7 eac swa geond Angelcyn, siððan hie Cristes geleafan onfengon, halegra biscepa 7 eac oðerra geðungenra witena. Hie ða gesetton, for ðære mildheortnesse þe Crist lærde, æt mæstra hwelcre misdæde þætte ða weoruldhlafordas moston mid hiora leafan buton synne æt þam forman gylte þære fiohbote onfon, þe hie ða gesettan. Buton æt hlafordsearwe hie nane mildheortnesse ne dorston gecweðan, forþam ðe God ælmihtig þam nane ne gedemde þe hine oferhogdon, ne Crist Godes sunu þam nane ne gedemde þe hine to deaðe sealde, 7 he bebead þone hlaford lufian swa hine. Hie ða on monegum senoðum monegra menniscra misdæda bote gesetton, 7 on monega senoðbec hie writan, hwær anne dom hwær oþerne.
Lets translate that and see if it makes sense
From this one law one might think that he judges everyone rightly, that he need no other law-book. Let him take care that he judge no one in a way that he did not want himself to be judged, if that one sought judgement against him. After that happened, that many peoples accepted Christ’s faith, many councils were assembled throughout all the world. And likewise among the English, after they accepted Christ’s faith, holy bishops as well as other distinguished councillors. They set down, on account of their mercy which Christ taught, that the secular lords must at the first guilt, for most any transgression, with their privilege and without sin, take their monetary compensation which they set down. The exception is treason against the lord, to which they should show no mercy, for the Almighty God gave none to them that despised him, nor did Christ, God’s son, to those who sold him to death, and he commanded that one should love a lord as himself. They then in many councils set down compensations for many transgressions of people, and they wrote in many council books, here one law, there another. Then I, King Ælfred, gathered these together and ordered many of these that our ancestors held to be written down, those which pleased me. And many of those which did not please me I threw out, with the advice of my councillors, and commanded them to be kept in other ways. Therefore, I did not rashly presume to set down much of my own in writing, for it was uncertain to me what would please those who come after us. But those that I found from the days of either my relative Ine, or King Offa of the Mercians, or Æthelbert, who was the first of the English to receive baptism, which seemed to me most just, I gathered them here and left the rest. Then I, King Ælfred of the West Saxons, showed these to all my councillors, and they said that it pleased them for all these laws to be kept.yup makes sense to me
Or, for something completely different:
4. King Edward exhorted his witan when they were at Exeter, that they should all search out how their frith might be better than it had previously been: for it seemed to him that it was more indifferently observed than it should be, what he had formerly commanded. He then asked them, who would apply to its amendment, and be in that fellowship that he was, and love that which he loved, and shun that which he shunned, both on sea and land? That is, then, that no man deny justice to another: if any one do so, let him make bot as it before is written; for the first offence, with thirty shillings; and for the second offense, the like; and for the third, with 120 shillings to the king.
thats a good one, he consulted his brain, I like that I am going to remember that one.
excuse me I need to consult me brain.
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