The Gawain Project

[pallas_athena]

I've decided to carry on translating Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and have started a new journal to do so: gawain_project.

I have to admit I never much saw the point of translating Middle English, since I think people should just read it, but it's true that the Northern dialect of Gawain isn't really comprehensible to an everyday reader. And besides, I wanted to tell you guys a good story.

It's winter, after all, and winter is the time for storytelling-- especially Arthurian tales. If you want to read Malory, winter nights are the best time. But although Malory clearly likes Gawain and gives him a lot of adventures, the Green Knight tale isn't in Malory. It isn't anywhere else but in this one manuscript, miraculous survivor of a library fire in 1731.

So if you'd like a good story to get us through the winter, then do add gawain_project to your Friends list. I can promise knightly quests, exciting travels, a beheading game gone horribly wrong, feasting, drinking, kissing, hunting and sexual harassment (of Gawain, by a lady.) See you there!

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correction

[larissa-00.livejournal.com]

I meant Yvain, Yonec is Marie de France.
My excuse is that my brain is reeling from having a bank clerk tell me that £1000 was going to give me $665, and, when I queried this, telling me that 'she could never remember whether to divide or multiply by the exchange rate' *runs away, gibbering*