[Magdalen] Copenhagen.

[Joseph Cirou]

The Grand Duke Palaeologue used to have his headquarters in the basement of the Rexall's in Copenhagen, before Mother Mauretania, newly ensconced as the Baroness Goldony-Czarny-Kawa, invited him to set up rooms in the Kastel. He was one of few who remained fluent in Byzantine Greek and 14th century Baltic German. There is no report on the quality of his Danish.  We've  heard little reference to  Her Serene and Spiritual Highness' flirtation with the Aleutian Islands. They were supposed to have been her endowment from the estate of Czar Paul, When she couldn't find the islet, she asked  her chaplain to remove the late Czar's name from the dyptychs chanted on the various All Souls Saturdays. (She made an exception for the Panikhyda on St Dimitri's Day, because she loved the kolyvo)

Mother Ste Folitesse, amanuense 

-----Original Message-----
>From: Cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>Sent: May 4, 2016 3:19 PM
>To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
>Cc: Cantor03 at aol.com
>Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Copenhagen.
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>In a message dated 5/4/2016 3:08:29 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
>michaudme at gmail.com writes:
>
>Wheras  ...
>my travels through Sweden and Norway convinced me
>that those  languages sound like Danish
>spoken by brutish  trolls>>>>>>>>
> 
>Depends on what dialect/accent the speaker uses.  There are the
>three varieties of Norwegian, for instance.  When I pressed my
>relatives in the Oslo area about my mother's Norwegian, they said,
>politely, that she sounded like a country bumpkin.
> 
>There is that characteristic "lilt" (for want of a better term) to  both
>Swedish and Norwegian that is minimal in Danish.
> 
>I was once standing in line to get into "Mary's" Restaurant (the
>one where MTM is seen sitting at a balcony table overlooking the  IDS
>Courtyard).  The two couples ahead of me were chatting in a  vaguely
>familiar language, and when my curiosity got the better of me I 
>asked them (in English) what language they were speaking.  The
>answer:  Icelandic.
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> 
>David Strang.
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>:-D