Headdesk

[tree_and_leaf]

OLIS (the Oxford library catalogue) lists a book on a thirteenth century life of St Clare of Assisi. The item record claims the life was written in Old High German. If that's true, there were some scribes in Germany with mad philological skills, as that's a bit like me translating my thesis into early Middle English.

Head, meet desk.

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[harriet-wimsey.livejournal.com]

Oh, if I only knew Old English, that sounds like something I might do, too. Anything to avoid studying!