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posted by [identity profile] mmoa.livejournal.com at 10:04pm on 29/11/2009
I wouldn't call this a "nursery rhyme," so much as a "bored in the scriptorium song"...

Ha! I should have known. I also find it so charming that we know more about a white cat alive some 1,200 years ago than some monastic student of middling ability no doubt struggling with his Aristotle or Origen.
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posted by [identity profile] alfrecht.livejournal.com at 10:20am on 30/11/2009
It's more likely at that point that the scribe would have been having difficulty with Servius' Commentary on Virgil or one of the Latin fathers--particularly Isidore of Seville--than Aristotle or Origen...Though a few Carolingian period perigrini and peritii knew their Greek better than many would for centuries (e.g. Ioannes Scottus Eriugena!), it wasn't quite as widespread as one would hope.

But still...It's like reading 9th century LOLcats, really..."I don't care what you know about me, here's my cat doing something that's TEH KYOOT!"
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