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Anglo-Saxon translation of Luke 2

Sharing from Archimandrite Alexius in the UK: Anglo-Saxon translation of Luke 2

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Dan Everiss

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Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 3:01 PM
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From: Archimandrite Alexis <theshepherd@mac.com>
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From Fr Joseph Frawley.

Subject: Anglo-Saxon translation of Luke 2
Date: 26 December 2017 at 19:39:04 GMT


This is very interesting. You get to see an XI century manuscript from Cambridge, and hear the Anglo-Saxon Nativity story with modern English translation on the screen.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XOfvCN_F5cg

The Gospel according to St. Luke, Chapter 2, read in Old English (Anglo-Saxon) by Joshua Tyra. This is a late 10th- or early 11th-century translation, tradit...


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