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Reply to comment by theredwoman95 in Woman’s name and tiny sketches found in 1,300-year-old medieval text | Old English name, Eadburg, repeatedly scored into manuscript had remained hidden for more than 12 centuries by ArtOak
True! And a few of these names survived until more recent times as well. The last Old English feminine name to die out was Ethel, and that was just during the past century. There are a few masc OE names that survive today, but are rarely used (Edmund, Robert, Edward; all more common a few generations ago).
ArmandoAlvarezWF t1_iyr1g93 wrote
Reply to comment by ThePrussianGrippe in Woman’s name and tiny sketches found in 1,300-year-old medieval text | Old English name, Eadburg, repeatedly scored into manuscript had remained hidden for more than 12 centuries by ArtOak
No, the historians are so sexy they can't imagine what it's like to have a crush on someone who doesn't reciprocate.
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Spinningwoman t1_iyqy0wm wrote
Reply to comment by Aselleus in Woman’s name and tiny sketches found in 1,300-year-old medieval text | Old English name, Eadburg, repeatedly scored into manuscript had remained hidden for more than 12 centuries by ArtOak
There’s a certain pleasure in the pain felt where the top comment is the one you came here to make.
CthulhuXRS t1_iyqwitn wrote
Reply to Woman’s name and tiny sketches found in 1,300-year-old medieval text | Old English name, Eadburg, repeatedly scored into manuscript had remained hidden for more than 12 centuries by ArtOak
'Talk to the hand' is a lot older than I thought, if that doodle is anything to go by?
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lostgirl11 t1_iyqw4ih wrote
Reply to comment by onetimenative in Woman’s name and tiny sketches found in 1,300-year-old medieval text | Old English name, Eadburg, repeatedly scored into manuscript had remained hidden for more than 12 centuries by ArtOak
That's all they have ever done.
The lost world is bigger than anything you've ever known or will know. Mathematically you're gonna die before you reach a conclusion worthy of permanent anything.
There's enough love and gravity to spend lifetimes on. Let alone everything we are too dumb to know or acknowledge yet
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StaticGuard t1_iyqvf82 wrote
Reply to comment by Snoo_73835 in Woman’s name and tiny sketches found in 1,300-year-old medieval text | Old English name, Eadburg, repeatedly scored into manuscript had remained hidden for more than 12 centuries by ArtOak
My money is on some rich kid practicing his name and doodling but used the disappearing ink stylus so he wouldn’t get reamed for writing on a sacred text.
Old_Mill t1_iyqvdev wrote
Reply to comment by GrandmaPoses in Woman’s name and tiny sketches found in 1,300-year-old medieval text | Old English name, Eadburg, repeatedly scored into manuscript had remained hidden for more than 12 centuries by ArtOak
Apparently they have never doodled before either... I have practiced my signature and doodled my name in general all over a paper thousands of times.
Maybe in a few centuries some dweeb historian will be perplexed by my writings.
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Reply to comment by Peanut_Butter_Toast in Woman’s name and tiny sketches found in 1,300-year-old medieval text | Old English name, Eadburg, repeatedly scored into manuscript had remained hidden for more than 12 centuries by ArtOak
There will be no academics in our sense of the word 1300 years from now.
Darth_Kahuna t1_iyqs0uz wrote
Reply to Woman’s name and tiny sketches found in 1,300-year-old medieval text | Old English name, Eadburg, repeatedly scored into manuscript had remained hidden for more than 12 centuries by ArtOak
I shudder to think someone might find my 8th grade algebra textbook in 1,300 years and make it some big thing. "Look at the sketch of this woman w glasses we assume was the teacher dangling over fire. These ppl 1,300 years ago must have been monsters!" No, I was simple in a Jesuit school and everything which bothered me went to hell in my drawings when I was 13 years old (despite no longer believing)!
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Reply to comment by ItsMud in Woman’s name and tiny sketches found in 1,300-year-old medieval text | Old English name, Eadburg, repeatedly scored into manuscript had remained hidden for more than 12 centuries by ArtOak
There were a lot of child initiates in monasteries and convents. They could leave when they reached a certain age, I think.
Emergency-Nebula5005 t1_iyqpsan wrote
Reply to comment by Aselleus in Woman’s name and tiny sketches found in 1,300-year-old medieval text | Old English name, Eadburg, repeatedly scored into manuscript had remained hidden for more than 12 centuries by ArtOak
My sentiments exactly! Bless!
ZweitenMal t1_iyr8lfn wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Woman’s name and tiny sketches found in 1,300-year-old medieval text | Old English name, Eadburg, repeatedly scored into manuscript had remained hidden for more than 12 centuries by ArtOak
Edward and Robert are hardly extinct names. Edmund and Ethel are less common but these names are still in use. Edward is actually an excellent name—I named my son Edward.