Middle English Word of the Moment

umbeclappes: embraces.
Source: [Alliterative] Morte Arthure.
Edition: Edmund Brock, Early English Text Society OS 8 (Oxford: London, 1865).
Dialect: Yorkshire, c1440.

Friday, March 6, 2009

Fire, flood - and now an earthquake.

We must be still waiting on pestilence and famine.

1 comment:

highlyeccentric said...

If the fires and floods keep up, famine can't be too far away...