That the written language of  8 centuries ago is intelligible to a modern
Russian-speaker is amazing - A rough equivalent, the Middle English of
"The Canterbury Tales", is an exercise in translation, not reading, for the
uninitiated.

Any thoughts about how this came about?

Jack
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