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Anyone heard of this group? I got a few of their songs because they're on the American Psycho soundtrack; their song plays in this incredibly well done, fantastically creepy part- the part where he's just walking down the street at night next to some woman.
They're not quite authentic Old English, but very original... Exotic nonetheless. I'd recommend them to anyone who has very broad taste in music, like me.
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Wow! I thought I was the only person to have heard of them! They are great. I work at Barnes and Noble part-time and I got to listen to them all day throughout the holiday season.
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Both Middle English and Old English would pronounce grene as "grayn-uh" (where the "ay" represents a monophthong and not the usual diphthongized "ay" that we use today). If they're saying "grin-uh," then they're saying it wrong.
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Garmarna is a contemporary Swedish rock/electronica group that does medieval songs with traditional instrumentation and then techno-izes them. It's great. This album is all songs by Hildegard of Bingen.
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Is my memory completely mush, or do I recall the Baebes singing some songs in Spanish?
Oooh, Garmarna! They are my heros. Thusly inspired, I'm slowly but surely collaborating with some online friends to produce a progressive-rock version of some Mystere Bulgares arrangements.
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In terms of interesting and cool groups... My cousin is member of bond which is a very good pop-classical musical group. Doesn't hurt all the members are drop dead gorgeous.
Oh, and Jon Boy - you haven't heard a diphthongized "ay" until you've heard me. It's the one bit of my strine I just can't supress.
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Do they really spell their name like that? Wow, that's incredibly annoying. Kinda like the dorks who can't spell "fairy" correctly (faeaeaearaeaea, or whatever). It's one thing to have different spellings due to regional differences, like colour and favour as opposed to color and favor. It's quite another to use dead spelling in modern context, when it's not spelled that way any more.
Incidentally, most of the people I meet who can't spell "fairy" correct can't spell "woman" correctly, either (womyn).
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At least "faerie" and "faery" are well-established variants. There's just no excuse for bæbes, though.
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I feele sorrie forie anybodyie thate knowse onlie one spellingie forie a worde.
Acutally, things like the "Provo Towne Centre" bug me a little -- just enough to get me to mock their spelling.
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"Bæbes" isn't an archaic spelling. It's a spelling that's contrived to look archaic. The original spelling was "babe," just like it is today.
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In Old English, the æ symbol represented the vowel in cat. In Latin, it was a diphthong like eye. Since babe is an English word, I assume that it would follow the English pronunciation rules, thus giving a word that rhymes with cab.
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