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3 unusual facts about Timor mortis conturbat me


Timor mortis conturbat me

As in William Dunbar's Lament for the Makars, the phrase Timor mortis conturbat me completes each stanza of the dirge; it is noted that Eddison was a scholar of medieval poetry.

Writing through his character Navarth the Mad Poet, he relates a poem in which the stanzas end in such examples as Tim R. Mortiss degurgled me, Tim R. Mortiss disturgled me, Tim R. Mortiss occurgled me, etc.

William Dunbar's Lament for the Makars, written around the end of the 15th century, employs the phrase at the last line of each verse.



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