Ticia VerveerI wanted to share this beautiful manuscript I saw at the exhibition BIRDS at the Mauritshuis in The Hague.
These two lines from a lovely medieval love song, written down around 1075, are one of the best-known sentences in the history of Dutch language and literature:
“Hebban olla vogala nestas hagunnan hinase hic anda thu”
Meaning: “All the birds are already nesting, except for me and you.
The next line reads “Wat unbidan we nu?”. What are we waiting for?”
These two lines from a lovely medieval love song, written down around 1075, are one of the best-known sentences in the history of Dutch language and literature:
“Hebban olla vogala nestas hagunnan hinase hic anda thu”
Meaning: “All the birds are already nesting, except for me and you.
The next line reads “Wat unbidan we nu?”. What are we waiting for?”
Em
Jorge Bejarano