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Yay, my Mozilla bug is fixed! Sanskrit users rejoice that one more font problem is out of the way.

To follow a meme from corollary, here’s the fifth (complete) sentence on page xxiii of An Introduction to Old Norse by E. V. Gordon: Only men between the ages of eighteen and fifty were admitted; no women were allowed inside the fortress; all booty was divided according to rule, and none might remain in the fellowship who at any time showed fear. If it must be page 23, then the sentence is: Ok nú fara þeir í brott frá jarðhúsinu einhvern dag ok kuma at bœ Siggeirs konungs síð um aptan ok ganga inn í forstofuna, þá er var fyrir hǫllinni; en þar váru inni ǫlker, ok leynask þar. I think I would have had better luck with the next book down in the pile, whose sentence might have been Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn. (but which in fact wasn’t).

I’ve started a mad, rash and foolish attempt to use topic maps to assemble a hypertext essay out of strands of arguments/points/evidence. It will surely be an interesting failure.

Posted by jamie on April 22, 2004 21:57+12:00

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