[Magdalen] Copenhagen.

[Joseph Cirou]

A little known "fact", unless it is an ecclesiastic urban legend, is that the last non celibate Bishop in the Western Church in communion with Rome was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Iceland (presumably the capital city) who was beheaded in 1550 for his faith.
(Not too sure he knew what the official line was, but his heart, if not his head, was in the right place.

Scandinavia never got the hang of celibacy. 400 years after the Lateran Council 1138, some folks hadn't got the word  (According to my sources, which are indefinite, the lady in question was not his mistress, but his wife.)

Joe
-----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.
> 
> 
> 
>David Strang.
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>:-D