ext_17913 ([identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] sovay 2008-02-09 05:16 am (UTC)

Translation?
"May her soul be at God's right hand, and her tongue loud in Heaven." (Teanga has the same ambiguity as "tongue" in English. Or French langue might be a better analogy, as the word's the most common equivalent to English "language.")

If they can resurrect Hebrew . . .

Indeed. Although Hebrew of course had the advantage over Pequot of an extensive body of written material.

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