WOTD: maligne espirit, loc. ‘evil spirit, demon’
‘espirt maligne en son cheval Entrira par enchantement.’ S Greg 2446 (an evil spirit will take possession of his horse by sorcery)
Beware of the evil spirits, and Happy Halloween!
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WOTD: planete, s. ‘planet’
‘set planetes Sunt al firmament […] Ceo est Saturnus e Jubiter, Mars, Solail e pus Venus, Mercurius, Lune’ RAUF ANTS 295 (seven planets are up in the sky […] They are Saturn and Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, then Venus, Mercury and the Moon)
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‘set planetes Sunt al firmament […] Ceo est Saturnus e Jubiter, Mars, Solail e pus Venus, Mercurius, Lune’ RAUF ANTS 295 (seven planets are up in the sky […] They are Saturn and Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, then Venus, Mercury and the Moon)
#SpaceWeek
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WOTD: scolemestre, s., ‘schoolmaster, teacher’
‘.ij. scolemaisters, l'un pur enfourmer les ditz queresters en musyk et l'autre en gramer’ Rot Parl1 iv 249 (two teachers, one to teach the said choristers music and the other grammar.)
WOTD: gain, s., ‘autumn, harvest season’
weins frois et sechs si resemble […] melancolie Psalter Comment 109.89 (autumn is cold and dry ; it is similar to […] black bile)
WOTD: ‘levé’, pp as a., leavened:
‘pur le pantrie […] vous achatés du payn non pas chaufenous, mes de bon payne levee’ Man lang ANTS 5.12 (For the pantry […] you will not buy mouldy bread but good leavened one)
➡️ More info: https://www.anglo-norman.net/entry/lever_1
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‘pur le pantrie […] vous achatés du payn non pas chaufenous, mes de bon payne levee’ Man lang ANTS 5.12 (For the pantry […] you will not buy mouldy bread but good leavened one)
➡️ More info: https://www.anglo-norman.net/entry/lever_1
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Today, we offer you a salty saga from #medieval England.
According to an #AngloNorman chronicle, in 1325: ‘En cel temps la meer surmontoit l’eawe de Thamise qe fust salee, par quei moltz des gentz se pleignoient de la cervoise qe fu salee’ Anon Chr2 122
(At this time the sea swept over the water of the Thames which became saline. As a result many people complained of the ale which became salty)
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𝙒𝙊𝙏𝘿: terre, ‘world, earth as a sphere or planet’
esteiles reials Que apellum 'principals', Que en latin numuns Planetes par raisuns. La terre dedenz pent. Comput ANTS 2801
('Royal stars' that are called ‘principals’, which in Latin are properly known as planets. The Earth hangs among them.)
To learn more: https://anglo-norman.net/entry/terre_1
[Illustration: Allegory of the Earth (Paris, BnF, Grec 1208, f.200)]
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𝙒𝙊𝙏𝘿: mandé 'washing of feet'
If you ever wondered where the phrase 'Maundy Thursday' comes from, the answer is Anglo-Norman.
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[Illustration: Reconciliation of penitents on Maundy Thursday (France, Besançon. Bibliothèque municipale, Ms. 138 f. 120)]
