[HN Gopher] Scholars solved a 130-year literary mystery and it h...
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       Scholars solved a 130-year literary mystery and it hinged on one
       word
        
       Author : robinhouston
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2025-07-18 07:40 UTC (3 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.sciencedaily.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.sciencedaily.com)
        
       | WarOnPrivacy wrote:
       | Cambridge researchers have reinterpreted the long-lost Song of
       | Wade,         revealing it to be a chivalric romance rather than
       | a monster-filled myth.              The twist came when "elves"
       | in a medieval sermon were correctly         identified as
       | "wolves,"
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       | The article adds substantive detail; IMO it didn't need a teaser
       | headline.
        
         | fsckboy wrote:
         | what you have quoted leaves the wrong impression, a clearer
         | picture emerges describd thus:
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         |  _The breakthrough, detailed on July 15 in The Review of
         | English Studies, involved working out that the manuscript
         | refers to 'wolves' not 'elves', as scholars previously
         | assumed._
        
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