Somerish Babel Text

From Langmaker

Translated into Somerish by Bo Bernvill.

Babel Text

1. The hale erthe hadde thone ilke tonge and tho ilke word.

2. Tho the mennish aforon to eastward fondon hey anen dene on Shinar in thone whit hey thurghwonedon.

3. "Nowne shulon we slean tyle and burne him", quothon hey hem tosomne. Hey breakon tyle alse buldstone and stonelime alse turew.

4. "Bulde we anen burghtown, mid anem tower hevenheigh. Our nome wierth welcouth, and we ne shulon werthe wideshovene over thone hale erthe.

5. Tho adownestough the Loward to thes to shewe thone burghtown and thone tower thone whit the mennish haddon ebuld.

6. The Loward quoth: "Hey been but an folk and havon but an tonge. Thist is but thet onyin. Nowne is hem naught unmightly so pon what so hey setton heiren hoy.

7. Stye we adowne and sheppe we dwalm on heiren tonge, to thes an ne understent thone whit an eller quith."

8. And the Loward wideshovede hem fram thissem stow out over thone hale erthe, and hey oflindon to bulde thone burghtown.

9. For thy is he eclept Babel, for them the there shop the Loward thone dwalm thes tonge pon thone erthe, and fram thennen wideshovede he tho mennish out over thone hale erthe.