Compared with the rapidity of change on the earth's surface - hundreds of years of language change, urbanisation, industrialisation and the developments of the nuclear age; the night sky changes very little. The constellations that the Anglo-Saxons stared up at, on a quiet night's walk from the privy to the hall, are the same constellations we see today.
When you're stargazing, try this:
When you're stargazing, try this:
Hwæt! þis
is eoforðring.
(Look!* This is Orion**)
[Hwat! Thiss iss ay-off-or-thring]
*(Technically Hwæt is usually used to mean 'listen', but it's a word that means 'pay attention', so you'd probably be ok with this here)
**(Eoforðring translates as 'boar-thong')
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