{"id":1543,"date":"2013-02-22T14:54:46","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T14:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.stefanschleifer.com\/codex\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2013-03-28T16:33:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T16:33:57","slug":"the-people-of-oridrace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/?p=1543","title":{"rendered":"The People Of ‘Oridrace’"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this extract from the beginning of Alexander and Dindimus<\/em>, we are introduced to the strange land that Alexander is visiting:<\/p>\n

Click here to listen<\/a>\u00a0 (Read by Prof. Ad Putter)<\/p>\n

\"oridrace\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Transcribed text:<\/span><\/strong> Whan \u00feis weith at his wil wedur<\/i>ing \/ hadde. Fful ra\u00fee rommede he rydin<\/i>ge \/ \u00feedirre. To\u00a0 oridrace wi\u00fe his ost \/ alixandre wendus <\/i>\u00feere wilde contre \/ was wist & wondurful peple. \/ \u00feat weren proued ful proude & prys of hem helde. \/ Of bodi wente \u00feei bar wi\u00feoute any wede. \/ & hadde graue on \u00fee ground many grete cauys. \/ \u00deere here wonnynge was wyntyrus & somerus. \/ No syte nor no sur stede so\u00feli \u00feei ne hadde. \/ But holus holwe in \u00fee ground to hiden<\/em> hem inne. \/ \u00dee proude genosophistiens were \u00fee gomus<\/i> called \/ Now is \u00feat name to mene \u00fee nakid wise.<\/address>\n

Modern English Translation: <\/span><\/strong>When this man had the weather he wanted, he very soon roamed thither, riding. \u00a0With his army, Alexander travelled to Oridrace, where wild lands were known of, and extraordinary people who were known to be very proud and thought much of themselves.\u00a0 They lived bare-bodied, without any clothes, and had dug in the ground many large caves where they lived, winter and summer.\u00a0 Truly, they had no city nor safe place, but hollow holes in the ground to hide themselves in.\u00a0 The people were called the proud Genophistians; and that name means \u2018nakedly\u2019.<\/p>\n

Note:<\/strong><\/span> In our transcription, \/ indicates a line-break in the manuscript, and letters in italics are expanded from abbreviations used by the scribe to save time and space.<\/p>\n

If you listen carefully, you can also hear that in our recording we have changed one of the words in this extract.\u00a0 That’s because as it stands in the manuscript, one of these lines doesn’t fit with the usual ‘rules’ of writing alliterative poetry in this period.\u00a0 But if you swap the word written in the manuscript with another word that means the same thing, the rules about how the line has to sound are satisfied.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to follow the story of this manuscript.<\/p>\n

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