The Bitter Scroll

thoughts on Germanic and Indo-European philology, poetry, fairy & fantasy, literature, history, culture, veering at times into philosophy, religion (tactfully), political theory (not "politics"), and the nature of communication.

Monday, December 12, 2005

Th'Appalachia's the Thing--Not

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Living as I did recently very close to Appalachia, and having had a professor a bit odd in his adopted obsession for it, I thought I'd d...
Tuesday, December 6, 2005

Hwæt, se boardgema in gear-dagum...

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I like boardgames as much as the next guy. But I love Beowulf, definitely more than the next guy. So I was glad to see (thanks to Scott Nok...
Friday, December 2, 2005

Some Futhark for your Friday

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Stumbled across this recently: An English Dictionary of Runic Inscriptions in the Younger Futhark Briefly, "futhark", from the fir...
Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Trilogy Notes

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[These are notes we put on the back of the program to "A Lay of Life and Loss".] Many of the themes and lines of this "operet...

"The Lay" Unlocked: full text

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Here is the Trilogy as Mikaela and I presented it on Nov. 19th. This is pasted pretty much straight from the program. A Lay of Life and Los...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Short-Lived Latin Letters

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Spotted this on Tenser said the Tensor : Emperor Claudius proposed three additions to the Latin alphabet that were used briefly on inscrip...
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Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Trilogy finished

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The trilogy is indeed complete . As of last night the writing had stopped. My last bit of dissatisfaction with certain lines led to some ...
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Friday, November 11, 2005

We gemyndian...

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"The spirit must be the firmer, the heart the bolder, courage must be the greater as our strength diminishes." In honor of Veteran...
Thursday, November 10, 2005

A Lay of Life and Loss

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I've gotten myself into an interesting project recently. A couple of weeks ago I mentioned to a friend of mine (whose personality is at...
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Thursday, October 27, 2005

Bagme Bloma: A Verse Translation

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I just recently posted about Tolkien's poetic composition in Gothic, "Bagme Bloma" ["The Flower of the Trees"]. The...
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