#epic poem

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Dante's Inferno - art by Gustave Doré (1861)

[flowerytale]

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, from Aurora Leigh

[midsummernightsmemes]

ᴬʰ, ᵗʰᵉ ᴼᵈʸˢˢᵉʸ ... ᴵᵗ ʷᵃˢ ᶠᵘⁿ ᵗᵒ ʷᵃᵗᶜʰ ᵗʰᵉ ˢᵘⁱᵗᵒʳˢ, ᵃˢ ᵒⁿᵉ ᵒᶠ ᵐʸ ᶠᵃᵛᵒʳⁱᵗᵉ ʸᵒᵘᵀᵘᵇᵉʳˢ ˢᵃʸˢ, ᵍᵉᵗ ᵘⁿˢᵘᵇˢᶜʳⁱᵇᵉᵈ ᶠʳᵒᵐ ˡⁱᶠᵉ. ᴮᵘᵗ ʷʰᵉⁿ ᵉˣᵃᶜᵗˡʸ ᵈⁱᵈ ᴼᵈʸˢˢᵉᵘˢ ' ᵈⁱˢᵍᵘⁱˢᵉ ʷᵉᵃʳ ᵒᶠᶠ?

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

[ezekiel13]

Guys please stop shipping Odysseus my man just made it back to Ithaca

[wronghands1]

[russianfolklore]

Nikolai Vorobyov's illustration for russian epic poem (bylina) about Alyosha Popovich and Tugarin Zmeyevich.

Alyosha Popovich is a bogatyr (a medieval knight-errant) and the youngest of the three main bogatyrs, the other two being Dobrynya Nikitich and Ilya Muromets.

In byliny (ballads), he is described as a clever-minded priest's son who wins by tricking and outsmarting his foes. He defeated the dragon Tugarin Zmeyevich by trickery.

[marieisnothere12]

Odysseus disaster girl

this took like what 4 hrs??? Im slow asf lmao

[the-evil-clergyman]

Illustrations from Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso by Gustave Doré (1879)

[elixs-mythology-corner]

Me tryna read the Iliad be like

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Paradise Lost - art by Gustave Doré (1866)

[scrivnomancer]

Cleaning out the garage and finding the old sign from when I received the Outstanding Masters Thesis of the Year award in grad school… and discovering water damage made it more badass.

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Elds er þörf þeims inn er kominn ok á kné kalinn; matar ok váða er manni þörf þeim er hefir um fjall farit.

- Hávamál

Warmth is indispensable for the one who bustled in audibly shivering with knocking knees; fare and fresh clothing are paramount for one who has travelled across frigid fells.

[crown-eats-rocks]

hear me out guys but aot would make such a good epic poem. greek mythology style? that shit would go so hard styled as a classic tragedy. cmon. the fixed narrative with eren? the "standing atop my mountain of corpses" with erwin? the doomed lover in mikasa? the miserable survivor in levi and reiner??? the fulfilling a cycle in armin??? the born and bred into hate in literally every marley warrior (most notably, gabi)?????

[lavenderinoz]

Durandal was the mythical sword of Roland, a legendary paladin (knight) and nephew of King Charlemagne.

The magical qualities of the sword have been vividly described in the 11th-century epic poem "La Chanson de Roland" (The Song of Roland). The poem is the oldest surviving major work of French literature.

According to "The Song of Roland", Durandal was first given to Charlemagne by an angel and was supposedly the sharpest sword in all existence. At the Battle of Roncevaux Pass in 778 AD, Roland used it to hold off the Saracen army long enough for King Charlemagne's army to retreat into France.

There are many legends about the sword of Roland. A local legend from the 12th-century monks in the medieval town of Rocamadour claimed when Roland was mortally wounded, he threw the sword into the air and it magically landed embedded in the rock cliff in Rocamadour. 

A sword can be found wedged into the cliffs above the Notre Dame chapel in Rocamadour until recently - however the local Tourist Office calls it a replica. This replica of Durandal has been reported missing on 22nd of June 2024.

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