Re: Inaccurate myths

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From: Paul May <kax_at_...>
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 20:43:23 +1000

At 07:50 PM 29/08/04, Jane wrote:
>I don't remember dates, but wat you have is an early manuscript being
>copied a few centuries later. The early script had an abbreviation
>(parchment being expensive) that if you had an "ono" you represented it by
>using a single "o" with a dot over it. Later copyist either didn't know
>this, or missed the dot. He wrote that Arthur took the sword "ex saxo" -
>from the stone. Original had him taking it "ex saxono" - from the Saxon.

"I draw this sword from this Saxon, and so I am King!" "Fair do's, guv'nor, that was the only thing stopping me bleeding to de..."

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