>Please- stop me lying awake at nights wondering- what meaneth your 'signature'?
>paes oferode - pisses swa maeg.
Google says: "That passed away: this also may!"
It's from the Old English poem "Deor". Britannica says:
>also called Deor's Lament, Old English heroic poem of 42 lines, one of the >two surviving Old English poems to have a refrain. (The other is the >fragmentary "Wulf and Eadwacer.") It is the complaint of a scop (minstrel), >Deor, who was replaced at his court by another minstrel and deprived of his >lands and his lord's benevolence. In the poem Deor recalls, in irregular >stanzas, five examples of the sufferings of various figures from Germanic >legend. Each stanza ends with the refrain "That trouble passed; so can >this." Though some scholars believe that the lament is merely a conventional >pretext for introducing heroic legends, the mood of the poem remains >intensely personal.
(Sorry, I know this question was for Lawrence. <g>)
Aaron.
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