Liam Guilar

@achillghost Good chance you won't need to worry about the morning after?

You’d think that at a certain point people would just stop coming to Hrothgar’s parties

@ehutchinson1513 It's worth reading. Possibly the best book written by a serving soldier about the first world war...

Was just reading a student thesis on David Jones's IN PARENTHESIS, a work I'm not familiar with. (Students write on all kinds of things I don't know about.) I turn to the "Preface," and the very first sentence is an allusion to Vergil. Jones: "This writing has to do with some

Sign in St Mary's, Whitby. Not sure if this is funny or sad.

@MabinogionGame @corner_kick It's ok, you didn't reveal what happens to her in the third branch....the suspense will linger (-:

@corner_kick Ahhh, I had believed that particular spoiler embargo expired sometime in the late Middle Ages... I shall wait a few centuries longer before mentioning what happens to Lleu Llaw Gyffes!

#FolkloreSunday The Mabinogion's Rhiannon has been described as "one of the great female personalities in World literature". Her story is one of love, grief, and endurance. It begins when Pwyll, Lord of Dyfed, is chosen by her over her other suitors. Their long-awaited child vanishes on the night of his birth, Rhiannon being falsely accused of infanticide. As punishment, she is forced to stand at the castle gates, offering to carry visitors on her back like a beast of burden. The truth is eventually revealed, her innocence established, and her son, whom she names Pryderi (from the Welsh word for 'anxiety'), restored to her.

@PaulDeane3 @riyeff þa Grickes hefden Troye; mid teone bi-wonen. & þat lond iwest; & þa leoden of-slawen. & for þe wrake-dome; of Menelaus quene. Elene was ihoten. alðeodisc wif. (Laȝamon)

@liamguilar @riyeff Like this! alliteration.net/poetry/sggk/ #alliterative #poetry #arthurian #poem #SirGawain #GreenKnight #alliterativeverse #poemsabout #Troy #poetrylovers

oh boy, hatching an idea for a class on epic that takes the west's reception history seriously—ie, start w/ virgil b/c folks didn't know homer until the humanists, move to the christian latin epics (iuvencus, arator, sedulius), _maybe_ beowulf, then end w/ chapman's iliad.

@PaulDeane3 @riyeff It would be entertaining to think of all the medieval poems that take some knowledge of the siege of Troy for granted.

@liamguilar @riyeff Or perhaps from the alliterative Destruction of Troy!

@TheBrazenHead1 March's edition contains the usual range of poems. Thanks to all those who contributed. brazen-head.org/category/the-a…

@ehutchinson1513 I'd go with the second one.

Working on some revisions and am curious which version of the third line of this strikes readers as superior:

@ehutchinson1513 @TheBrazenHead1 The pleasure is ours.

Very pleased to have some poems in THE BRAZEN HEAD (@TheBrazenHead1): A poem about the Areopagus; a translation of the prologue of the BACCHAE of Euripides; and an original inspired by a line in Thomas Hardy. Many thanks to Poetry Editor Liam Guilar (@liamguilar)!

@MabinogionGame I've just translated this story and the great boar hunt is a magnificent piece of writing in the original. The story itself is odd in that Culhwch is absent from all the tasks and does nothing, yet still 'wins' Olwen.

#FairytaleTuesday In the tale of Culhwch and Olwen, the mighty Twrch Trwyth was once a prince, transformed into a monstrous boar for his sins. The story is one of the first detailed accounts of King Arthur's exploits. Although the quest is given to Culhwch, it's Arthur's warriors that lead the hunt!

I’m told this is One Of The Best So Far and Not To Be Missed

@MabinogionGame If you like annotations and 'different' readings...it's almost encyclopaedic...but I think Will put some of it online without the translations: .....mabinogion.info/index.html

@liamguilar No, I haven't! It's almost $130 to order in Canada, so probably not gonna happen anytime soon... Maybe I can convince the local library to order a copy... 🤔

This is a really lovely edition of the book, the Alan Lee illustrations are magnificent! To be honest, I`m not a huge fan of the Jones and Jones translation though, I find the more recent Sioned Davies version much more readable.

@MabinogionGame I like them both, Ford and Davies had elegant solutions to the difficult bits...and with Ford you get Gwion Bach and Cad Goddeu, which is a bonus. Have you read Will Parker's book, 'The Four Branches of the Mabinogi'?

My usual 'go to' is almost always the Patrick Ford version, as much for accompanying commentary as the text itself. But so many people seem to prefer the Davies translation (and it is great) that I usually name that if someone asks for a recommendation! (Plus Ford doesn't contain all the stories).

@truegodsattend @ModAgeJournal Ok, that sounds like something everyone should read....

Just correcting my proofs for @ModAgeJournal. Does this mean I’ve made in it American conservative versecraft circles? If so, I’ve done it with one of the weirdest poems in my oeuvre, a psychosexual take on The Island of Doctor Moreau.

@DerekTurner1964 the joys of cutting words

50,000+ words in on my new novel... And it was only supposed to be ca. 30,000!

Having spent the last day or two trying to remember a word: reverse dictionary, thesaurus, visual thesaurus, historical thesaurus, dictionary of slang (several), dialect dictionaries (several), OED...realised the word does not exist...

@trad_poet Is it ironic that thanks to Peter Jackson and Tolkien more people know about Theoden than they do about Edwin, Oswy, Oswald, Penda, Cadwallon, or the stories of Pwyll, Locrin, Gwydion, Balyn?

“Songs we have that tell of these things, but we are forgetting them, teaching them only to children, as careless custom. And now the songs have come down among us out of strange places and walk visible under the Sun.” —Théoden, King (The Two Towers) “And now we more carless reimagine and devour with saturnine gaze— ”

Do you read Narrative Poetry? I do, and this one is one of the great European performances in a fine translation which reads well in English, Now to reread Ariosto.