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[cleolinda]

I'm being such a lazy schmo today. I'm supposed to be revising poems, but I've gotten myself turned around so badly on the night-day thing that I'm desperately-but-pleasantly sleepy right now

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[anonymous]

Yes, precious, "On the tide floated under bank their boat". Perfection incarnate, as it happens. Alliteration. Syllable weight. Old English metre. You know, stuff that Heaney just happily chucks away, asks us not to care about it, and is the worse for wear because of it. If Drout puts out his promised Tolkien translation of Beowulf next year, chalk me up for a copy ;)

WhoEVER gave you the idea that you'd be getting a lot of Neil Gaiman this year!?

(Vlad.)

[cleolinda]

Well, I do already have American Gods in my hot little hands, and I put a lot of Neil on my Christmas list, and then there's y'all's translator-translatee lurve, so I simply made some assumptions and did the math...