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Just a teaser - a converted Pendraken Late Roman personality to lead my new Saxon warband.
http://irregularwars.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/10mm-saxon-cyning.html (http://irregularwars.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/10mm-saxon-cyning.html)
Nice 8). I'm planning on doing some conversions for my Saxons, but this will most likely involve removing crests etc.
Like it !! 8)
Cheers - Phil.
It's amazing how much difference a few surgically-altered figures can make to the look of an army. But I did originally read the title as "Early Saxon crying conversion. Must get myself a new pair of reading glasses! :D
Quote from: Hertsblue on 15 March 2013, 09:01:18 AM
It's amazing how much difference a few surgically-altered figures can make to the look of an army. But I did originally read the title as "Early Saxon crying conversion. Must get myself a new pair of reading glasses! :D
Funnily enough I read it as "cyning". Unfortunately, I still haven't a clue what it means! :-\ :-\ :-\
Mollinary
QuoteUnfortunately, I still haven't a clue what it means!
The answer is on his Blog :). At least I learnt something useful today.
Pronounced with a hard 'c' (i.e. 'k') and a double o you get 'kooning'. Then the relationship with 'koning'/'König'/'king' will be more readily seen.
And yes, a good conversion. But I'm always amazed that people can do this with the little blighters!
And now I know how to pronounce it :).
Quote from: OldenBUA on 15 March 2013, 10:13:18 AM
Pronounced with a hard 'c' (i.e. 'k') and a double o you get 'kooning'. Then the relationship with 'koning'/'König'/'king' will be more readily seen.
Is that right?! I never realised the 'y' was pronounced as 'oo'. I have always read it as an 'i'. Four years of high-school German obviously made little impact on me but now that I see that, your explanation makes a lot of sense. :-\
Thanks for all the compliments gents.
Quote from: irregularwars on 15 March 2013, 06:13:33 PM
Is that right?! I never realised the 'y' was pronounced as 'oo'. I have always read it as an 'i'. Four years of high-school German obviously made little impact on me but now that I see that, your explanation makes a lot of sense. :-\
No, it isn't. :P Shows how much I know about this, anyway. The oo sound would be represented by an u, while the y is used for something like an i, but not quite.
Try the following link, where the y in the first (close) row is the sound in cyning. For König, it's the slashed o, and for koning it's the o, both in the third (close-mid) row.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPA_vowel_chart_with_audio