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A Challenge to the Known Worlde Rapier fighters.
I've been working on this for a while, I feel it's time to issue it. Apologies to those who have already read it, I'm spreading this net as wide as I can ( Read more... ) -
Sir Orfeo Project Part 3 - Lines 53 to 72
I haven't stopped work in this, I just haven't posted any of these in a while. Here's another 20 lines. Comments very deffinitely welcome:
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Sir Orfeo Project - Lines 29 to 52
Here's a few more lines. As always, comments welcome. As I said before, I'm going to need to cut, suggestions for that are very welcome.
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Sir Orfeo Project - A Comment
So, work on "Sir Orfeo" is going obnoxiously slowly. I'm also not cutting enough - I'm 200 lines into the actual poem, and have generated 110 lines. So I'm about a third done, and cut it by less than half ( Read more... ) -
Sir Orfeo Project - Part 1 - Lines 1-28
Here is the first portion of "Sir Orfeo." As I stated, I intend to do the first portion in Middle English. Comments very,very welcome:
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Sir Orfeo Project Part 1 - Introduction
I’ll go into the format of the poem here, the form in which I intend to write my adaptation, and how I intend to perform it.
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Sir Orfeo Project - Proposal
Okay, a new project has caught my imagination. I'm looking at "Sir Orfeo," a poem written in Middle English around the beginning of the 14th Century. It probably is an English version of a Breton Lay, now lost. It's essentially the story of Orpheus, but transported to the Middle Ages. I'm going to create an adaptation of the poem for ( Read more... ) -
Morte Arthure Project Part FINAL!!! - Lines 3864 to 3896
This is it! I'm done with this portion, so unless I start working on another one (which is entirely possible.) I'm done with this for now. I posted three stanzas, because they're all relatively short, and they go together well ( Read more... ) -
The Alliterative Morte Arthure Project Part 9 - Lines 3840 - 3863
Could I beg a bit of feedback on the last bit before I go into it? Is the line
no rank could arrest him / his reason had flown
clear? I much prefer it to the alternate, but I want to know.
Anyway, we're almost done here...
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Morte Arthure Project Part 8 - Lines 3813 to 3839
I've conceived of a very scary plan - I'm seriously thinking of doing this portion (well, sans the first two stanzas or so) as my second round piece in King and Queen's Bardic. So I'd better finish translating it, eh?
I'd love feedback, particularly on the place where I've noted an alternate line.
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