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So Insanely Good so far. i'm loving it

soo so so so good what on earth ☹️☹️ genuinely one of the most incredibly and beautifully written things ive ever read

- seeing urien's name in gwen ap llywarch and his father is my avengers endgame moment
- boromir and denethor in lotr are extremely gwên and llywarch coded.
- ALSO IN GNOMIC STANZAS "it's rare that a relative's face is friendly / if you visit him too often". real.
- meilyr is iconic for composing a poem on his death-bed but also imagine being unhappy with the result and that's what's stuck as your legacy

ah thank goodness i made it through the introduction. i felt like it took me years- conran writes as though he is dictating and makes many generalising statements which i am VERY UNSURE about. anyway!! poem time 🙏 love taliesin's so far!

more thoughts!
- st cuthbert exclusively eating onions has me weak 😭😭
- engle derling is such a sweet term :( 💓
- the mvp king alfred FORGING PROSE WRITING FOR A LANGUAGE WHICH DID NOT YET HAVE IT??? HELLO??

st cuthbert, ever the mvp, even in death....

sorry helgi you're a bit boring... however borghild slayed with "let your mustache strain it, son!!"
also the birds are gossipingggg damn. them after sigurd randomly beheads regin: 😟

thoughts!
EARL TOSTI??? as in my fav sandwiches? (this is a joke please)
"Nothing is ever easy in the kingdom of earth, the world beneath the heavens is in the hands of fate." goes unreasonably hard. so does "the heated water- that was convenient" in The Ruin.

wulfstan the alpha lupus. i am once again a riddle lover

highlights so far:
- waldere bragging about how much swag his outfit has
- illicit union for bee thieves????????

imagine being called charles the bald and your son being called louis the stammerer

ok i haven't progressed much but the information surrounding the poem judith is so interesting??? the way in which adaptations are used also for enforcing social norms and political gain???

arthur is truly a real one for helping culhwch with all that (i personally would probably have given up after the 16th dude you need to find)

- the germanicising of christian anglo-saxon poetry??? mannn
- riddle 47 my absolute beloved. me when the conflict between orality and textuality 🥰
- check the big brain on those monk
- the Paris psalter truly is the OG bilingual edition

- the germanicising of christian anglo-saxon poetry??? mannn
- riddle 47 my absolute beloved. me when the conflict between orality and textuality 🥰
- check the big brain on those monks
The Pathe paris psalter truly is the OG bilingual edition

the writing is stunning so far hello???? a few of my favourite lines so far:
"This is my grandson."
"Because a bullet without a body is like a song without ears."
"And I wanted for it, for his gaze to fix me to the world I felt only halfway inside of."

whoops i started yet another book??? but also so far the writing is, well, gorgeous. man.

peredur son of efrog is still my favourite non-main-4-branches part of the mabinogion i fear

it is so hard to read this quickly! there's so much detail

- laeg calling cuchulainn cuchu????? :( <3
- cuchulainn and ferdia. ouch :( they are brokeback táin actually. god childhood friends to enemies always gets me. that was painful
- there were some extremely funny bits though! "why do you praise cuchulainn so much? he hasn't paid you anything." and "he uttered his warrior's scream [...] so that every living man in ulster heard it, except those who lay asleep." LMAO??

love me some manuscripts!!!

highlights so far:
- cuchulainn's fAKE BEARD TO FIGHT NADCRANNTAIL???? AND THE GRASS FAKE BEARD???
- all this for one (1) cow....
- not láréne being punished with literally shitting himself and IBS for the rest of his life
- cuchulainn and the morrigan, ultimate enemies to lovers?
- cuchulainn being described as a "peppery overgrown elf". that's it
- laeg the mvp! also him calling cuchulainn "little hound" is so cute

oh peredur and gwalchmai, you truly are brokeback mabinogion

damn cúchulainn....... also how i love you morrígan <3