The sixth of my four Sir Gawain challenge drabbles! (yes, really.) The aim was to write 100 words in response to a section of the poem. I have about six more of these to write and post (I'll try to spread the posts over the next couple of days) and then I will post the masterlist, probably on Thursday before I go home.

Her chin is pale, her cheeks
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The fifth of my four Sir Gawain challenge drabbles! (yes, really.) The aim was to write 100 words in response to a section of the poem. I have about seven more of these to write and post (I'll try to spread the posts over the next couple of days) and then I will post the masterlist, probably on Thursday before I go home.

A steed of pure green stock.
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The fourth of my four Sir Gawain challenge drabbles! The aim was to write 100 words in response to a section of the poem.

The masterpost of all drabbles will go up on the 31st October.

With every polished piece
no man shone more, it seemed
from here to ancient Greece.
He sent then for his steed.

Merlin has a little bit of a thing for Arthur’s armour.

It ( Read more... )

The third of my four Sir Gawain challenge drabbles! The aim was to write 100 words in response to a section of the poem.

to learn of love and more,
a lady all alone.
Perform for me before
my husband heads for home.’

Merlin froze, his eyes widening comically. Outside Lady Evelyn’s chamber, Gwaine and Elyan struggled to laugh silently.

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The second of my four Sir Gawain challenge drabbles! The aim was to write 100 words in response to a section of the poem.

I'll post the other two tomorrow :)

So late, his lordship said,
that lamps should burn with light.
Then, blissful, bound for bed,
Sir Gawain waved goodnight.

They wandered down the corridors, Gwaine stumbling along behind them, in ( Read more... )

The first of my four Sir Gawain challenge drabbles! The aim was to write 100 words in response to a section of the poem.

Well, with the green man gone
they laughed and grinned again.
And yet such goings on
were magic to those men.

The vivid apparition vanished as quickly as it had arrived. Merlin blinked slowly, staring at the spot where it had been, ( Read more... )

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Today is Friday! Sign-ups are officially closed. Those involved:

amuly
b_c_draygon
bellax_xmuerte
bookwrm89
darksagegrl0
fragiledays
graiae
hellusbellus
hermitknut
hobnailedboots
idlestlove
jelazakazone
k_nightfox
lantean_drift
mildly_deluded
moiraes
oddityisavirtue
silver_falcon24
trinitys_sin
udunie
xthursdaynextx

That's twenty-one of us :) Now, my calculator tells me that one hundred and one divided by twenty-one is 4.809something. If we even it out, all but four of us need to write five drabbles - and four of us only need to write four. Make sense? First four ( Read more... )

Last year I studied Simon Armitage's translation of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight". For those of you who don't know, it's a narrative poem telling the story of Sir Gawain, knight of the round table. I love this poem, and of course it has an Arthurian setting.

Now, each stanza ends with a little four-line rhyme. There are one hundred and one of ( Read more... )

Hello livejournal and friends.

I kind of want to post, but my brain is a bit scattered, so this may be less a proper post and more a list. Lists help organise my brain. I like lists.

( Wherein there are very listy lists, and a distinct shortage of roman numerals... )

Or, "How to get a first"

(thanks to headlesshedwig  for that one *giggles*)

This is what happens when me and swoot_of_ealdor  get bored in seminar :) Just thought I'd share.

( Of Bakers, Dwarves, Merlin and Arthur... )