Re: [conculture] Rasism and xenophoby

[Andrew Smith <hobbit@mail.earthlight.co.nz>]

From: Andrew Smith <hobbit@mail.earthlight.co.nz>

On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Padraic Brown wrote:

> > Urath per nu agur e a lla ur di nustr morth.
> 
> Well we (mum and I) got there all of one thin minute before they closed
> the casket.  Well, that's what 80mph over about 400 miles gets you.  It
> seems I lied: It's actually still more or less Saturday night.  I take it
> the above is what a Comrow would utter when told of someone's death?  A
> pleasant sounding custom, says I. 
> 
It is actually a translation of the petition from the Hail-Mary, a
petition I quite often find myself using as a memorial for the dead.
Perhaps the Chomro _do_ use it as a mark of respect for the dead.  It has
wonderful assonance in Brithenig.

The petition to Saeth Mair would be 'Ur per nu...'

- andrew.

Andrew Smith, Intheologus 			hobbit@earthlight.co.nz

	Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored;
	Light dies before thy uncreating word:
	Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall;
	And Universal Darkness buries All.
			- Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, Book IV.


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