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Guth: Reading Irish Myths & Legends

Now that I am a Real Grown-Up Academic (tm), I have been trying to find a way to support my students and the general public by making medieval Irish literature more accessible to people who, be it a lack of time, disability, or any other factor, find sitting down and reading the original texts challenging.

What I settled on was creating a Podcast where I sit down and read out of copyright translations of Irish legends which I have called Guth: Reading Irish Myths and Legends.

If that's all you need to hear, you can go check it out right now! It is on Spotify (here), Podbean (here), and YouTube (here), and should be on Apple Music in the coming weeks. Alternatively, it is embedded here:

For those of you who need a harder sell, or want to know more about it, check out below!

So, why Guth? Well, I have encountered several different Podcasts and YouTube Channels out there which are doing something similar, recording audio of them reading medieval Irish legends. While several of these are quite cool, there are issues.

In terms of more benign issues, to get around the issues of copyright, people in these alternatives tend to retell stories, and while that is very cool as an example of something like an oral tradition, it means the stories are often being altered and changed by a non-expert audience. Elements that are not very important are being given great importance, areas that are very important are cut, and sometimes things are incorporated from other texts to make an unspoken composite (or, alternatively, sometimes people cut a section of a text out and retell it independent of its broader context).

These aren't bad, but, it means these other Podcasts and Videos aren't really suitable for my purposes of supporting my students and giving people access to the actual stories.

In terms of the big problems, there is at least one Podcast on a similar topic being presented by someone who I have reason to suspect is faking having a PhD. Further, there are at least two people putting out content like this that are actively forging content and passing it off as authentic who just so happen to also be Fascists. So, not ideal.

I hope Guth can serve my students and interested members of the public by providing a solid academic perspective on a text. Each episode I open with a discussion of our manuscript sources and the date of the text (a lot of other pieces out there will describe tales as 'ancient', when in actuality they're a 14th century scribe just vibin'). I then read the text exactly as it is translated, including using reconstructed Old Irish pronunciation for all the names that appear in the text. Lastly, I conclude with a brief discussion of secondary scholarship I think is particularly relevant for the interests of the public.

All of that to say, I hope people enjoy Guth, and that it can serve people who are interested in the actual medieval tales rather than the various retellings that are circulating out there.

[lifelyne]

Raven Reaper and geno (and little guth as a bonus)

:3

[y0uc4n7kn0w]

Niji Nights Day 7: Characters of Color in Anime Part 5

Welcome to the last night of Niji Nights 2024 our PRIDE event here on We be Bloggin’! There’s no time like the present to appreciate when creators add characters of color to their works of art! Soma (Black Butler) He’s filled with energy and loves to annoy his uptight cousin, Ciel. Leo De La Iglesia Yuri on Ice!!! He’s an ice skater that works hard by studying hard and practicing hard so…

[ajl1963]

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night…adventures in antiquing

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night, adventures in antiquing, stop us from our Driving for Deco creed.  A friend and I were speaking about Anthony and my antiquing adventures. She asked if anything stopped us. And it got me thinking. And the answer is: Not usually. But the creed doesn’t mention blood. My blood, and lots of it. But I’ll get to that later. Adventures in Snow: Ontario…

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Sedgwick Guth phographed by hollywood_bruisers

[wiltedprayers]

something i love about band of brothers is the little quirks and details in each of the soldiers' clothes, especially those that pop up after the war progresses when nobody really bothers with uniform regulations anymore.

my favorites from each episode:

sobel's wool jacket in currahee

toye's brass knuckles in day of days (didn't have a good choice clothing-wise for this one, sorry!)

talbert's camo handkerchief in carentan

bull in his undershirt in replacements

luz' scarf in crossroads

spina's hat and sweater in bastogne

dick using his lapels as a scarf in the breaking point

malarkey's beanie in the last patrol

nix's suspenders in why we fight

liebgott's entire outfit in points

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Drawing by Pat Christensen from the Winters Files featuring the men of Easy Company

[pastlivesandpurplepuppets]

When the company was running Curahee Luz, who was good at disguising his voice, would call out, ‘Captain Sobel to the rear.’ Sobel, who always ran at the head of the column, would dutifully double back to see what was up. Finding no problems and undoubtedly perturbed, he’d run back up to the front of the column. Later the joke would be repeated.

~ Forest Guth

[jareckiworld]

Hella Guth (1908-1992) — The Threepenny Opera [woodblock, 1933]

[gemville]

London Blue Topaz, Diamond and Yellow Gold Cuff by Kathaline Page-Guth

Source: Kathaline Page-Guth Fine Jewels via Pinterest

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[lifelyne]

Human afterdeath :D

Reaper is a woman because yes

And you know who else is a girl? GUTH

I can!

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[violasmirabiles]

something thats always had me kinda :( is that. i really really really dislike most cheeses. i can and do eat food that has cheese in it no problem and enjoy it too its complicated its fine dont worry about it but. by itself? or as a Main Character so to speak? pained grimace i would prefer not to. sososososo many cheeses are just. fucking nightmare texture to me. often nightmare smell and taste too but texture. thats the fucking. nope. no. no thank you. and it sucks so bad cos 1) i feel like Do Not Have A Good™ Reason™ For Disliking Cheese & All Normal People™ Eat Cheese & You Sir Are A Nuisance And A Freak™ and yeah you get the idea but ALSO cos 2) cheeses are so fucking fascinating to me. in a neurodivergent way. like what the fucks that about and also what a tragedy. notable exception is mozzarella. and also leipäjuusto with cloudberry jam. thats god tier despite the Texture™ but thats mostly thanks to the cloudberry jam so thank you cloudberry jam for your service

[wiltedprayers]

Bastogne pictures by Forrest Guth.

✦ thanks so, so much @lupoteodoro for sharing all this!