Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 5 days agoThis Mysterious Gold Pendant Featuring a Misspelled Inscription Is an Early Medieval Imitation of a Roman Coinwww.smithsonianmag.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up171arrow-down10
arrow-up171arrow-down1external-linkThis Mysterious Gold Pendant Featuring a Misspelled Inscription Is an Early Medieval Imitation of a Roman Coinwww.smithsonianmag.comFlying Squid@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 5 days agomessage-square8fedilink
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·5 days agoWhat I think is interesting is that this happened only a century after Britain stopped being a province of Rome. That’s how quickly Latin was forgotten.
minus-squareteft@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 days agoThey didn’t have liturgical latin to lean on at the time since they were pagans. Kind of makes sense they wouldn’t keep speaking a foreign tongue.
What I think is interesting is that this happened only a century after Britain stopped being a province of Rome. That’s how quickly Latin was forgotten.
They didn’t have liturgical latin to lean on at the time since they were pagans. Kind of makes sense they wouldn’t keep speaking a foreign tongue.