#medieval ballads

[illustratus]

Hellelil and Hildebrand, the Meeting on the Turret Stairs by Frederic William Burton

[atomic-chronoscaph]

art by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1910s)

[buriedknight]

Herr Mannelig

[castilestateofmind]

"My ornaments are arms,

My pastime is in War,

My bed is cold upon the wold,

My lamp yon star".

-Medieval Spanish ballad.

Illustration from The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, by Howard Pyle, 1903.

[fictionadventurer]

I don't think we talk often enough about how amazing a poet J.R.R. Tolkien was.

I just read The Lay of Arthur and it was amazing. I got to the battle scene and was so caught up in the excitement and the sound that I just had to read it aloud. It was its own kind of adrenaline rush. I haven't been caught up in poetry like that in a long time.

[lady-alabaster]

Frederic William Burton (1816-1900), Hellelil and Hildebrand, the meeting on the turret stairs, 1864, watercolour paint and gouache paint on paper, Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland.

[valeroyeaux]

oh idk if i ever posted this shitty ps5 pic but! miss janet ingellvar!!!

[thebeautifulbook]

POEMES ET BALLADES DU TEMPS PASSE [aka POEMS AND BALLADS OF TIMES PAST] by Christine de Pisan. Illustrated by Albert Robida. Art binding by Charles Meunier (1902).

A collection of French Medieval and Renaissance poems and romantic ballads.

source

[pippinoftheshire]

I said it before, I'll say it again: I hate it when I get the beginning and the end of a fic done and then still have to write the middle bit...

[thelampisaflashlight]

They do coexist

Very loudly

One is always half a dewdrop away from biting the other

Dew doesn’t want people to see him as weak, but Dew also doesn’t realize being vulnerable and being weak are different things.

Vulnerability takes strength.

It takes acknowledging that you are not all powerful, that you needn’t spite everyone, but that, indeed, you can accept help, or admit your flaws.

It’s more a fear of being mistreated that keeps him from doing so.

He’s scared, and doesn’t want to be coaxed like a cat into gentleness.

He wants his anxieties acknowledged and soothed.

[illustratus]

The Little Foot Page by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale

[turangalila]

Antonio Zacara da Teramo. Magister Zacharias (c.1350 c.1413) Rosetta che non canbi

Rosetta che non cangi mai colore, / amar te voglio sopra ogne altro fiore. / se altruy me fa languire e sospirare, / tu me resguardi con gran desiderio / E se turbar o pianger o tristare, / penando vay per darmi refrigerio. / Non posso più legere lo psalterio, / ch’i vo’ costey che non muta colore.

Enigma Fortuna – Zacara da Teramo – Complete works. La Fonte Musica, Michele Pasotti. (2021, Alpha Classics – ALPHA640)

[eye-of-the-purricane]

Andrey Vinogradov - Alien Land

Dark Medieval Ballad. Hurdy-Gurdy, Organ Dron & Drum

[creatediana]

Ballade XXXV "The Gentlest Man" by Christine de Pizan (1364–1429) translated by James J. Wilhelm

[unswayedmermaid]

Heres a version of just the instrumentals, the percussion and flute are midis but the ""lute"" (ukulele) strumming was all me babey

it's in 3/4 the chord pattern is: C F D G7 x3 for the first melody

F Am C G x3 for the second

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[whywalkwhenyoucanride]

considering making a sideblog just to ramble about folk music. berhabs. we shall see.