and you can't hold me down, 'cause i belong to the hurricane; it's gonna blow us all away.

[intrikate88]

My coworker just said, "I never knew the Chronicles of Narnia was a book! How long has it been out?"

*FACE. DESK*

I need more icon space for Narnia and White Collar icons, in other news. LJ, get on that already. People have been begging for more icon space for YEARS.

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[lady_songsmith]

Ow. Just ow.

[intrikate88]

I could have injured myself, leaving that conversation as fast as I did to avoid accidentally brutally insulting someone. It's a popular series that I've written fic for since I was eight years old, not obscure drafts of Mabingion branches or something.

[rthstewart]

Ha! I read Prydain after Narnia and spent several years in grade school trying to track down the original Mabinogian. Sigh.

[lady_songsmith]

I found the Mabinogion surprisingly disappointing when I finally laid hands on it. Possibly because the translation I read (I cannot remember which now) was some of the densest text I ever had the misfortune to come across.

[intrikate88]

Possibly the Charlotte Guest one? I respect her achievements, but she bowdlerized a hell of a lot and everything that she didn't, she made unnecessarily dense. I heard there was a newer translation that's a lot truer to the original style and substance, but I haven't read it, just saw it mentioned. I did a presentation of the texts that were brought together as the Mabinogion about a year ago, which was pretty cool, though- the British Library and the National Library of Wales have the manuscripts in digital form.

[intrikate88]

I started looking for it after I read Madeline L'Engle's A Swiftly Tilting Planet, which also fueled my interest in learning Welsh. Though I'm sure there might have been some mentions in Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising sequence and I read that earlier. Have you seen the digital manuscripts at the British Library and National Library of Wales websites with the various books that eventually became the Mabinogion when Lady Guest translated them?

[rthstewart]

This is an interest that I totally forgot about until I found a fic this week that is a total trippy Narnia A/U like what you find on LJ except without the 'cest. Peter is even off away in the North burning and killing things. There was a synod of bishops at "Caer" Paravel condemning slavery and witchcraft and the whole thing put me in the mind Prydain and then from there to the Mabinogian.

[intrikate88]

Seriously, check this shit out. It's pretty awesome, and there are so many other manuscripts (the Book of Taliesin!)

I haven't read Prydain but I keep hearing it's good...