Status Updates From The Lays of Marie de France...

Mikun: cute and wholesome.

Guigemar: started out strong, but soon gotten worse and worse.
Bad ending and underutilized themes like the curse and ship?

I need a better way to track my medieval lit reading than GoodReads so if anyone has suggestions, hit me up!!

WHAT THE FUCK. okay i’m reading this because libgen wasn’t loading and i couldn’t bother to dig harder for a copy of our translation but THIS ONE IS SO MUCH FUNNIER. i didn’t know the lais were supposed to RHYME what. this is ibn arabi all over again

“men and women have often found/that the evil they plan can rebound/and strike them down who intended to strike./it’s poetic justice or something like.”

“mortality was the only relief he could think of for his ailment”