How'd They Build That?

[Speaker to Animals]

just a pile of stones

Really?

This is what Constable drew


This is from the atlas of John Speed, 1611


This is from before the restoration


This is the oldest known depiction from the 1440 manuscript Scala Mundi

The little sketch is a bird's eye view of the stones, and shows the great trilithons, the biggest stones in the monument, each made of two pillars capped with a third stone lintel, which stand in a horseshoe in the centre of the circle. Only three are now standing, but the drawing, found in Douai, northern France, suggests that in the 15th century four of the original five survived.

So, tell me again how it was a pile of rocks and no one knew how it looked.

I suspect that last manuscript is fake based on the script and language.

I wish Flip were here, but I think stone would be written as ston or stan, depending upon the local dialect.

[Speaker to Animals]

Yeah, does not add up.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/stonehenge


Stanenges was the middle English name.

[Montegriffo]

a) It's a French manuscript so unless you're an expert in 15th century Northern France dialects I suspect you are talking out of your arse.
b) It's genuine according to those who have examined it.

[Speaker to Animals]

a) It's a French manuscript so unless you're an expert in 15th century Northern France dialects I suspect you are talking out of your arse.
b) It's genuine according to those who have examined it.

So the French used a time machine to find out how modern English speakers would spell it after dictionary standardization in the late 18th century?

[Montegriffo]

a) It's a French manuscript so unless you're an expert in 15th century Northern France dialects I suspect you are talking out of your arse.
b) It's genuine according to those who have examined it.

So the French used a time machine to find out how modern English speakers would spell it after dictionary standardization in the late 18th century?

No, but you are comparing the non-standardised 15th-century spelling of a French scribe with the 12th-century non-standardised old English origin of the word.
Non-standardised is the key phrase here.

...but I'm sure you know more than the experts on medieval manuscripts who have examined it.

[C-Mag]

Sweden is the home of cabin romanticism. Everyone wants a little red stuga with white corners. Preferably on an island or by a lake.

Nice

[brewster]

Sweden is the home of cabin romanticism. Everyone wants a little red stuga with white corners. Preferably on an island or by a lake.

Nice

I hope that's a lake not the Baltic, a storm in the latter would get way too exciting.

[Speaker to Animals]

Hastur is a professional Swede. He is not worried about the rain. Gott mit uns.

[Hastur]

Sweden is the home of cabin romanticism. Everyone wants a little red stuga with white corners. Preferably on an island or by a lake.

Nice

I hope that's a lake not the Baltic, a storm in the latter would get way too exciting.

That one is in the Stockholm archipelago. Nämndöfjärden.

[Speaker to Animals]

For you married guys..



Good, affordable escape.