Clockwise, or more specifically, Sunwise
Why? Because that's the way the Angles and Saxons (and the occasional Jute) did it, and that's good enough for me. 😀
What are Anglo-Saxon boundary clauses?
They are descriptions in Old English (and sometimes Latin) of the boundaries of land-units recorded in charters dating from the seventh to the eleventh centuries. They perform a function similar to the coloured outline on modern Land Certificate plans which shows the precise limits of land under conveyance. The Anglo-Saxon versions, however, are in written form, and typically walk the reader clockwise around the perimeter of the estate citing features which the boundary passes, crosses or follows.
Example: Ì?is sind Ì?a land gemÌ?ro to eatune....These are the land-boundaries of Eaton - first from beetle's stream up along the streamlet till it comes to the coloured floor. Thence along the valley by the two little barrows till it comes to the spring at Wulfhun's plantation. Then diagonally over the furlong to the thorn bushes westward where the large thorn tree used to stand, and so to bird pool. Then along the ditch till it comes to the muddy spring, and so along the water course till it comes to the Cherwell which forms the boundary from then on. Over a thousand of these descriptions survive, either in contemporary documents or (more commonly) in medieval or later copies.
Way back or once upon a time long ago, I guess the merry band of realtors had a lot of push to get things written as they wanted them to be wrote.
Robert Hill, post: 365063, member: 378 wrote: Way back or once upon a time long ago, I guess the merry band of realtors had a lot of push to get things written as they wanted them to be wrote.
Early Anglo-Saxon literary reference to Realtors:
In off the moors, down through the mist bands God-cursed Grendel Realtor came greedily loping.
The bane of the race of men roamed forth,hunting for prey in the high hall.
Grendel.
My high school English teacher for my Junior and Senior years was called Grendel by hundreds of students through the decades she taught. Maybe one in a couple hundred had any knowledge of the literary source of the appellation. Someone, long before my time, must have read about Grendel and decided to so label an otherwise very nice woman, whose brother was a local Lutheran minister. Her crime was that she honestly thought every student should master the subject matter in order to be most effective in their adult life.
Ah yes, the Beowulf legend.
I remember reading a book back in the 70s titled "Grendel" (written from the "monster's" point of view).
It was A LOT DIFFERENT...
🙂