Friday, June 6, 2025

Level 3; the Middle Ages; Carmina Burana: Fortune plango vulnera [3]: the Wheel of Fortune

Image: the Wheel of Fortune from the Carmina Burana

Going from the left in a clockwise direction … three important tenses in one Mediaeval wheel of Doom

Left: regnā │I shall reign

Top: regnō │ I reign

Right: regnā │ I (have) reigned

Bottom: sum sine regnō │ I am without a kingdom