1066 and all that
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avvaНаконец-то у меня есть в электронном формате (вроде бы весьма хорошая версия, только сноски иногда путаются с основным текстом) одна из самых любимых книг: 1066 And All That, юмористическая история Англии, или, точнее выражаясь, "A Memorable History of England, comprising all the parts you can remember, including 103 Good Things, 5 Bad Kings and 2 Genuine Dates". Гениально смешная (и тоже полузабытая в наше время, по крайней мере за пределами Англии) книга. Настоятельно рекомендую всем, всем, всем.
Вот отрывок из предисловия:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
THE Editors acknowledge their comparative indebtedness to the Editors of the Historical Review, Bradshaw, the Lancet, La Vie Parisienne, etc., in which none of the following chapters has appeared. Their thanks are also due to their wife, for not preparing the index wrong. There is no index.
PRESS OPINIONS
`This slim volume...' Bookworm
`...We look forward keenly to the appearance of their last work.' Review of Reviews of Reviews
`... vague...' Vague
ERRATA
p. 11 For Middletoe read Mistletoe.
p. 17 For looked 4th read looked forth.
p. 50 For Pheasant read Peasant, throughout.
p. 52 For sausage read hostage.
Вот ещё несколько отрывков:
THE first date in English History is 55 B.C., in which year Julius Caesar (the memorable Roman Emperor) landed, like all other successful invaders of these islands, at Thanet. This was in the Olden Days, when the Romans were top nation on account of their classical education, etc.
Julius Caesar advanced very energetically, throwing his cavalry several thousands of paces over the River Flumen; but the Ancient Britons, though all well over military age, painted themselves true blue, or wood, and fought as heroically under their dashing queen, Woadicea, as they did later in thin red lines under their good queen, Victoria.
Caesar was therefore compelled to invade Britain again the following year (54 B.C., not 56, owing to the peculiar Roman method of counting), and having defeated the Ancient Britons by unfair means, such as battering-rams, tortoises, hippocausts, centipedes, axes, and bundles, set the memorable Latin sentence, `Veni, Vidi, Vici', which the Romans, who were all very well educated, construed correctly.
The Britons, however, who of course still used the old pronunciation, understanding him to have called them `Weeny, Weedy, and Weaky', lost heart and gave up the struggle, thinking that he had already divided them All into Three Parts.
[...]
Britain Conquered Again
THE withdrawal of the Roman legions to take part in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (due to a clamour among the Romans for pompous amusements such as bread and circumstances) left Britain defenceless and subjected Europe to that long succession of Waves of which History is chiefly composed. While the Roman Empire was overrun by waves not only of Ostrogoths, Vizigoths, and even Goths, but also of Vandals (who destroyed works of art) and Huns (who destroyed everything and everybody, including Goths, Ostrogoths, Vizigoths, and even Vandals), Britain was attacked by waves of Picts (and, of course, Scots) who had recently learnt how to climb the wall, and of Angles,
Saxons, and Jutes who, landing at Thanet, soon overran the country with fire (and, of course, the sword).
Important Note
The Scots (originally Irish, but by now Scotch) were at this time inhabiting Ireland, having driven the Irish (Picts) out of Scotland; while the Picts (originally Scots) were now Irish (living in brackets) and vice versa. It is essential to keep these distinctions clearly in mind (and verce visa).
[...]
By this time the Saxons had all become very old like the Britons before them and were called ealdormen; when they had been defeated in a battle by the Danes they used to sing little songs to themselves such as the memorable fragment discovered in the Bodleian Library at Oxford:
Old-Saxon Fragment
Syng a song of Saxons
In the Wapentake of Rye
Four and twenty eaoldormen
Too eaold to die....
The Danes, on the other hand, wrote a very defiant kind of Epic poetry, e.g.:
Beoleopard
OR
The Witan's Whail
Whan Cnut Cyng the Witan wold enfeoff
Of infangthief and outfangthief
onderlich were they enwraged
And wordwar waged
Sware Cnut great scot and lot
Swinge wold ich this illbegotten lot.
Wroth was Cnut and wrothword spake.
Well wold he win at wopantake.
Fain wold he brakë frith and crackë heads
And than they shold worshippe his redes.
Swingéd Cnut Cyng with swung sword
Howléd Witane hellë but hearkened his word
Murië sang Cnut Cyng
Outfangthief is Damgudthyng.
Эта пародия на Беовульфа меня окончательно покорила, когда я открыл эту книгу в первый раз.
Всё, больше не могу, так можно всю книгу процитировать.
(Кто хочет файл - обращайтесь... можно в комментах или почтой)
Вот отрывок из предисловия:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
THE Editors acknowledge their comparative indebtedness to the Editors of the Historical Review, Bradshaw, the Lancet, La Vie Parisienne, etc., in which none of the following chapters has appeared. Their thanks are also due to their wife, for not preparing the index wrong. There is no index.
PRESS OPINIONS
`This slim volume...' Bookworm
`...We look forward keenly to the appearance of their last work.' Review of Reviews of Reviews
`... vague...' Vague
ERRATA
p. 11 For Middletoe read Mistletoe.
p. 17 For looked 4th read looked forth.
p. 50 For Pheasant read Peasant, throughout.
p. 52 For sausage read hostage.
Вот ещё несколько отрывков:
THE first date in English History is 55 B.C., in which year Julius Caesar (the memorable Roman Emperor) landed, like all other successful invaders of these islands, at Thanet. This was in the Olden Days, when the Romans were top nation on account of their classical education, etc.
Julius Caesar advanced very energetically, throwing his cavalry several thousands of paces over the River Flumen; but the Ancient Britons, though all well over military age, painted themselves true blue, or wood, and fought as heroically under their dashing queen, Woadicea, as they did later in thin red lines under their good queen, Victoria.
Caesar was therefore compelled to invade Britain again the following year (54 B.C., not 56, owing to the peculiar Roman method of counting), and having defeated the Ancient Britons by unfair means, such as battering-rams, tortoises, hippocausts, centipedes, axes, and bundles, set the memorable Latin sentence, `Veni, Vidi, Vici', which the Romans, who were all very well educated, construed correctly.
The Britons, however, who of course still used the old pronunciation, understanding him to have called them `Weeny, Weedy, and Weaky', lost heart and gave up the struggle, thinking that he had already divided them All into Three Parts.
[...]
Britain Conquered Again
THE withdrawal of the Roman legions to take part in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (due to a clamour among the Romans for pompous amusements such as bread and circumstances) left Britain defenceless and subjected Europe to that long succession of Waves of which History is chiefly composed. While the Roman Empire was overrun by waves not only of Ostrogoths, Vizigoths, and even Goths, but also of Vandals (who destroyed works of art) and Huns (who destroyed everything and everybody, including Goths, Ostrogoths, Vizigoths, and even Vandals), Britain was attacked by waves of Picts (and, of course, Scots) who had recently learnt how to climb the wall, and of Angles,
Saxons, and Jutes who, landing at Thanet, soon overran the country with fire (and, of course, the sword).
Important Note
The Scots (originally Irish, but by now Scotch) were at this time inhabiting Ireland, having driven the Irish (Picts) out of Scotland; while the Picts (originally Scots) were now Irish (living in brackets) and vice versa. It is essential to keep these distinctions clearly in mind (and verce visa).
[...]
By this time the Saxons had all become very old like the Britons before them and were called ealdormen; when they had been defeated in a battle by the Danes they used to sing little songs to themselves such as the memorable fragment discovered in the Bodleian Library at Oxford:
Old-Saxon Fragment
Syng a song of Saxons
In the Wapentake of Rye
Four and twenty eaoldormen
Too eaold to die....
The Danes, on the other hand, wrote a very defiant kind of Epic poetry, e.g.:
Beoleopard
OR
The Witan's Whail
Whan Cnut Cyng the Witan wold enfeoff
Of infangthief and outfangthief
onderlich were they enwraged
And wordwar waged
Sware Cnut great scot and lot
Swinge wold ich this illbegotten lot.
Wroth was Cnut and wrothword spake.
Well wold he win at wopantake.
Fain wold he brakë frith and crackë heads
And than they shold worshippe his redes.
Swingéd Cnut Cyng with swung sword
Howléd Witane hellë but hearkened his word
Murië sang Cnut Cyng
Outfangthief is Damgudthyng.
Эта пародия на Беовульфа меня окончательно покорила, когда я открыл эту книгу в первый раз.
Всё, больше не могу, так можно всю книгу процитировать.
(Кто хочет файл - обращайтесь... можно в комментах или почтой)
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Date: 2001-09-23 05:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2001-09-23 05:21 pm (UTC)А где можно достать этот текст?
Это мне напоминает книгу о истории России, написанную в похожем стиле... тоже где-то была в электронном формате, но где и как именно называлась, не помню. :( Но ее скорее всего можно найти на www.lib.ru, как и много чего другого. :)
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