{"id":74,"date":"2003-12-03T21:21:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-03T21:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=74"},"modified":"2011-08-25T14:52:28","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T20:52:28","slug":"74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"Lose Yourself Here"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Internet Sacred Text Archive<\/a> is an amazing place. Recent additions include the complete corpus<\/a> of Anglo-Saxon poetry, in Old English, of course. (Time to dig out my undergraduate copy of Bright’s Old English<\/em> from Prof. Harper’s class.) Thanks to Language Hat<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n

You were wondering if they had Pagan texts<\/a>. Yes, they do. But why that cheesy cheap graphic that looks like a computer-game backdrop? No stock photos of Stonehenge? No John Waterhouse paintings?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Internet Sacred Text Archive is an amazing place. Recent additions include the complete corpus of Anglo-Saxon poetry, in Old English, of course. (Time to dig out my undergraduate copy of Bright’s Old English from Prof. Harper’s class.) Thanks to Language Hat for the link. You were wondering if they had Pagan texts. 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