Well, there's not much to tell, without specific questions. I'm studying for a Master of Arts in Writing and teaching English to freshmen (first year university students). I haven't yet settled on what to do for a thesis project, but I'm considering novelizing Wace's account of Arthur in the Roman de Brut. I'm a bit of a fan of Wace, you see.
I assume you are familiar with Wace, the Jersey-born writer from the 12th century?
"Jo di e jo dirai ke jo sui Wace de l'isle de Gersui"
His Roman de Brut is, to quote la Ouitchipédie, "eune histouaithe d'la Grande Brétangne dans tchi qu'i' mentionnit pouor la preunmié fais la Ronde Tabl'ye au Rouai Èrthu".
What else would you like to know? Tch'est qu' tu veurs saver?
I see. Several of those I know through LJ are teachers, at various levels, of subjects as diverse as Law, History and English but we 'met' through writing. Where are you based?
I know a very little about Wace and my ability to read it in the original is zero! That extract looks very different--is it 12thC JNF or French?
I didn't know Wace was the first to connect King Arthur with the Round Table. Mostly, I've seen Geoffrey of Monmouth or Chretien de Troyes 'credited', or blamed, however you look at it :), with that. It's not really my period of history and I confess my ignorance.
Wace wrote in what I would call "Old Norman"; he was from/on Jersey, and his writing shows distinctly Norman elements. That little snippet states "I have said and I will say that I am Wace from the isle of Jersey"; he was evidently proud of his heritage (and he seems to have detested the French, whom he likely saw as usurpers).
While Geoffrey of Monmouth gave us most of the origins of Arthur, the Round Table belongs to Wace, in that regard, as well as certain other aspects. I rather enjoyed reading what I did in the Roman de Brut.
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Né v'chîn un mio dé m'n histouaithe originnal
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I assume you are familiar with Wace, the Jersey-born writer from the 12th century?
"Jo di e jo dirai ke jo sui
Wace de l'isle de Gersui"
His Roman de Brut is, to quote la Ouitchipédie, "eune histouaithe d'la Grande Brétangne dans tchi qu'i' mentionnit pouor la preunmié fais la Ronde Tabl'ye au Rouai Èrthu".
What else would you like to know? Tch'est qu' tu veurs saver?
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I know a very little about Wace and my ability to read it in the original is zero! That extract looks very different--is it 12thC JNF or French?
I didn't know Wace was the first to connect King Arthur with the Round Table. Mostly, I've seen Geoffrey of Monmouth or Chretien de Troyes 'credited', or blamed, however you look at it :), with that. It's not really my period of history and I confess my ignorance.
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Wace wrote in what I would call "Old Norman"; he was from/on Jersey, and his writing shows distinctly Norman elements. That little snippet states "I have said and I will say that I am Wace from the isle of Jersey"; he was evidently proud of his heritage (and he seems to have detested the French, whom he likely saw as usurpers).
While Geoffrey of Monmouth gave us most of the origins of Arthur, the Round Table belongs to Wace, in that regard, as well as certain other aspects. I rather enjoyed reading what I did in the Roman de Brut.
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