Gawain Project: Brothers & Sisters, p. 130

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My favourite Anonymous reader contacted me this week to say that for some reason LJ doesn't allow her to post comments anymore. Is anyone else experiencing problems?

-Oh wait. You wouldn't be able to comment to say so, would you. *sigh*

In any case: if LJ is giving you headaches, I'd offer Dreamwidth (sigune.dreamwidth.org) as an alternative. I have a mirror journal there (in fact, I have been posting from Dreamwidth for ages now, since LJ has been unreliable for a while) which is quite stable. I have also enabled the footer thing that explicitly mentions Dreamwidth as the source for this entry, and if all goes well, there should also be a 'reply with Open ID' thingy. Let's see how this works.

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Meanwhile, for Poetry Day, I bring you a poem that seems to have got misplaced in the Mabinogion. It is "possibly the earliest poem by a woman to have been preserved in Britain" (c. 650?). Enjoy!

Dinogad's Coat

Specked, specked, Dinogad's coat,
I fashioned it of pelts of stoat.
Twit, twit, a twittering,
I sang, and so eight slaves would sing.
When your daddy went off to hunt,
Spear on his shoulder, club in his hand,
He'd call the hounds so swift of foot:
'Giff, Gaff - seek 'im, seek 'im; fetch, fetch.'
He'd strike fish from a coracle
As a lion strikes a small animal.
When to the mountain your daddy would go,
He'd bring back a stag, a boar, a roe,
A speckled mountain grouse,
A fish from Derwennydd Falls.
Of those your daddy reached with his lance,
Whether a boar or a fox or a lynx,
None could escape unless it had wings.

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-And now for page 130! Sorry, no text today :).

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A runaway slave boy begs Arthur to save his family from their Saxon masters. Cei doesn't trust the boy, but Arthur feels inspired. He decides to ride for Venta. And there he is going to do something everybody could have predicted :P.




Concrit is still and always welcome :).

THE STORY SO FAR:

Part I: The Darkest Hour
1-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10-12, 13-15, 16-18, 19-21, 22-24, 25-27, 28-31, 32-35, 36-40, 41-44, 45-47, 48-50, 51-53, 54-57, 58-60, 61-64, 65-66, 67-69, 70-73, 74-75, 76-81, 82-84, 85-87, 88-90, 91-92, 93-97, 98-101, 102-103, 104-108, 109-111, 112-114, 115-119

Interlude: The Sword of Kings
1-4, 5-11


Part II: Sunrise
Brothers and Sisters
1-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10-12, 13-15, 16-18, 19-21, 22-24, 25-27, 28-30,31-33, 34-36, 37-39, 40-42, 43-45, 46-48, 49-51, 52-54, 55-57, 58-60, 61-63, 64-66, 67-69, 70-72, 73-75, 76-78, 79-81, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129.

Comments

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[anna_mette]

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Venta

[anna_mette]

I have just re-read "The sword of Kings" - and the last picture in the story corresponds exactly with the last one on this page: the sword, the stone and the mansion in the background. And you did even mention Venta - but I had forgotten all about that.
I just love when a story is planned so long time ago, it is after all more than 3 year ago you posted "The sword of Kings."

[cabepfir.livejournal.com]

EXCALIBUR!

Thanks for the poem! :D