Monday, February 17, 2020

"This too shall pass" has its own Anglo-Saxon history, independent of the "Persian"

Come what come may,
Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

-- William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 3

Many of us have heard that the Geat's love for Maethild passed all bounds, that his love robbed him of his sleep.

That went away, this also may.

-- The Lament of Deor, late 10th century Exeter Book