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Thread #13004   Message #749602
Posted By: masato sakurai
17-Jul-02 - 08:29 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Sumer Is Icumen In/Summer Is A-Coming In
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Summer is a comm?in in' ?
The 13th-century sumer is not the same as the present-day summer. This site even translates the tilte as "Spring has come in". However,

Sumer: spring or summer? The ME word extends over a longer period than the modern one (see Fischer (1994)). Roscow (1999) argues that the poem describes early summer rather than spring.
(From HERE.

~Masato