<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
2009/6/5 Ed Loach <<a href="mailto:ed@loach.me.uk">ed@loach.me.uk</a>>:<br>
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> Burg: a fortress or a walled town<br>
> (according to my 1990 vintage Chambers English Dictionary).<br>
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> So I'd say the English for burg is burg, and yes this is pointless.<br>
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</div>thanks a lot. In old-English you could also say "burh".<br>
<font color="#888888"></font></blockquote><div><br>and most likely in Old German too.<br><br>damn but Tolkien was a fine philologist!<br><br> <br></div></div><br>-- <br><a href="http://short.ie/savenenaghhospital/">http://short.ie/savenenaghhospital/</a><br>