#my copy of gawain and the green knight !!

[awaythe-clock]

The Green knight is like. Its about honour. Its about regret. Its about fear. Its about courage. Its about shame. Its about the cyclical nature of the world. Its about mirrors and parallels. Its about your mom and you. Its about death and decay. Its about choices. Its about magic. Its about trying to avoid the unavoidable. Its about aging. Its about changes you aren’t ready for but have to go through anyways. Its about chances you wanted but were too scared to take. Its about gently kissing and caressing dev patels face. Its about expectations. Its about disappointing people. Its about how you look back at all the things you couldve done differently and forward to the things that may come. Its about the unyielding but loving power of nature and life. Its about being a person.

[solradguy]

25 YEAR OLD MISSING LINK ORDER SOL BROCCOLI TRADING CARD DELIVERED TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HOS GK behind it is by Nakayama Eiji

[oflights]

Ask game: Top 5 green items in your house

i love this so much?? like i literally walked around looking for green things and it was so much fun. i was going to take pics of things but then i thought that was overkill so i will just be descriptive lol

my lil fire escape herb garden, which right now boasts parsley, sage, and dill 🍃 we were also growing a pot plant but it got way too big and then sadly perished in a thunderstorm

my stuffed junimo that i think emily sent me

similarly, the stuffed ikea broccoli that i'm certain emily sent me

my pistachio-colored electric kettle

the glittery hashtag meatball sign that my mother-in-law made for us to hang up in our entryway lol. it's only partially green but it counts!!

thank you for this!!!

ask me top 5 anything!  💚🐸🥦

[tillman]

Reorganized my shelf too to fit some stuff better and declutter and realized the pic I took for twitter very clearly shows my two copies of house of leaves. Cant post this shelf anywhere I cant let people know im that fucking insane.

[bisclavret]

arthurian cinema: a vibe collection

my rule of thumb when it comes to watching movies is "must a movie be 'good'? is it not enough for it to have a bit of a weird/trippy/artsy/horny/allegorical/gay vibe?" and thank god for that because arthurian cinema has this sort of vibe in spades! so here's an assortment of some arthurian films i've seen + a reason or two why they passed my nebulous yet specific vibe check:

lancelot du lac 1974 is my #1 forever for the doomed repressed symbolism-soaked post-grail pre-camlann so-rigid-it's-camp atmosphere and the interpersonal dynamics between lancelot guinevere and gauvain the likes of which i haven't seen anywhere else outside of the texts

tristan et iseult 1972 is really just avant-garde performance art + the surviving copy is really rank which adds a je ne sais quoi... and congrats to tristan on his top surgery!

morgane et ses nymphes for the "my lesbian roadtrip led me to morgan le fay's realm and now she's obsessed with me" plot and the dreamy hazy eurotrash energies

perceval le gallois 1978 has such kitschy surrealist teletubbies-esque visuals that it has nearly defeated me. i still haven't finished it. it's rare that a film feels like an assault on my eyeballs and yet i am compelled and i cannot look away

sir gawain and the green knight 2002 is a strangely horny stained glass animation that will give you motion sickness while saying bi rights over and over and over. it feels like a religious sunday cartoon. it won a bafta

the buried giant – a beautifully atmospheric novel in its own right – is getting adapted into a stop motion film soon! i already know it will earn a spot on this list so consider this a place-holder

the green knight 2021 for the giants scene (and the 360-degree sequence of a tied-up gawain Losing The Game)

a knight's tale entirely because they dance to bowie's golden years

knightriders for the most charming merlin design i've ever seen and also for the whole knights jousting on motorbikes concept

monty python and the holy grail for just about everything but above all else the bit where they're animated and then the animator abruptly dies of a heart attack and then they stop being animated

excalibur 1981 for everything as well but i cannot overstate the effect lancelot's dream where he wrestles his armor and homoerotically un-stabs himself had on me. i will never shut up about it

king arthur: legend of the sword just kidding i haven't seen this nor do i intend to. i'm just enamored with this 2-second shot of a tree girl and her tree titties and i think that everyone should witness her

[gailyinthedark]

Today we found my husband's old copy of Gawain and the Green Knight from his university days. It has terrible, terrible 1980's cover art, coffee stains, and little notes in the margins that say things like Guinevere toughs it out or Arthur is painted as a foolish cuckold in my husband's handwriting but the handwriting is younger, it's familiar but not fully developed the way I know it. He's written his name inside the cover in faux medieval script. I didn't know it was possible to crush on the person your spouse was before you ever met them.

[knavetheodore]

super special find at the second hand bookstore today! a copy of the 2008 Folio Society edition of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight illustrated by Diana Sudyka and translated by Simon Armitage!

very glad to have this in my ever-growing collection of green knight editions. Only gripe is that it is too tall to put on even the biggest of my book shelves...

[maniculum]

Do you have any books or sources for learning Olde English? I want to write a medieval-based story but I don't know how to write the characters speak the language.

That depends -- when you say "Olde English" do you mean Old English, like pre-1066 English? That's pretty far from modern English and it's unlikely that readers will be able to understand it easily. If that's what you're looking for, the texts I was taught with are:

Bright's Anglo-Saxon Reader

Quirk's Old English Grammar

Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader

They're all from a while back -- and, as you can see, some use the now-deprecated term "Anglo-Saxon" -- so you can find older editions free in the public domain. More recent revised editions can generally be found in cheap paperback form. I believe there are some more modern textbooks that are quite good, but I haven't looked at them, and I don't know how affordable they are.

I have also consulted with Zoe (@meanderingmedievalist) on this, and she recommends Baker's Introduction to Old English, as well as the related resource Old English Aerobics:

The reason there are textbooks for this, though, is because you genuinely have to treat it as a foreign language. It's very different from modern English. As a sample, here's the beginning of Beowulf:

Hwæt! We Gardena in geardagum þeodcyninga þrym gefrunon hu ða æþelingas      ellen fremedon. Oft Scyld Scefing      sceaþena þreatum monegum maegþum      meodosetla ofteah egsode eorle syððan aerest wearð feasceaft funden he þæs frofre gebad weox under wolcnum weorðmyndum þah oð þæt him aeghwylc þara ymbsittendra ofer hronrade      hyran scolde, gomban gyldan      þæt wæs god cyning.

So if you put a lot of it into a story for a modern audience, most of them will be a bit lost.

If when you say "Olde English" you mean "English that sounds archaic and medieval, but is comprehensible to a modern audience", you're probably looking for Middle English.

I don't have any direct references for learning the language there, as I was mostly taught through immersion (i.e., here's a Middle English text, read and translate it, now do another until you get a feel for it), but Zoe recommends Fulk's Introduction to Middle English, so that's a good bet if you don't want to go through that process.

However, I do think the "just read the texts" method also works fine -- especially since, if you're writing a medieval story, you'll want to read some of the literature anyway for inspiration. Here's what you can do to use that method outside of a classroom setting:

Step One: Get a Middle English text with a facing-page translation. Armitage's edition of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is good for this. Read the Middle English text, referring to the Modern English translation on the facing page whenever you don't understand it. Do this with a pencil in hand, so you can annotate the text with definitions, translations, and notes about how the sentences work.

Step Two: Get a Middle English text for which modern translations exist. Don't get the modern translation. The Canterbury Tales works for this: it's a classic and you should be able to pick up a copy anywhere. The version on my shelves is Baugh's Chaucer's Major Poetry -- which is heavily footnoted with definitions, potentially saving some time with the dictionary -- but it doesn't really matter as long as it's in the original. Read it. Every time you don't know a word, look it up in the Middle English Dictionary (available free online, in searchable form, here) and write it down. Again, best to annotate directly on the page with a pencil. Trust me, it helps to do it that way. Once you're done, get a modern translation and check your work.

At this point, you'll probably have picked up enough of the language that you should be able to write in it to some degree, though you'll want to continue making reference to the Middle English Dictionary to make sure you're employing period-appropriate usage and spelling. If you have access to the Oxford English Dictionary (if you're at a university, you almost certainly do, otherwise check with your local library), use that to check when the words you're using originated -- the OED has that listed, and that'll keep you from accidentally dropping an 18th-century term into medieval dialogue. You can also use their Historical Thesaurus to find period-appropriate equivalents for terminology.

Optional Step Three: Keep reading more Middle English literature with the dictionary open, annotating as you go, to get additional practice. If you can get through Le Morte Darthur in the original (get the P.J.C. Field edition), I think you'll be set in terms of "writing convincing medieval prose". Not because it's particularly difficult -- it's late medieval, so the language is actually more modern than either of the texts mentioned in steps one and two -- but just because it's long, so you'll get a lot of practice working through it. As a bonus, reading Malory will familiarize you with lots of good knightly vocabulary in case that's the kind of story you want to write.

Optional Step Four: Read scholarly articles on Middle English language and literature to get a more in-depth understanding. Again, check with your local library, or if you're at a university, a university library will have a vast amount of resources on this subject you can browse through.

[spacegirlsgang]

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[lizziestudieshistory]

An Update on my Tolkien Collection

For @oneardentstudybuddy following your recent tags:

Not all of my collection is pictured because I couldn't fit the whole bookcase into the shot, it's also a MESS on the bottom shelves... (The top shelves are bad enough!) There's also books missing because I've lent them out to a friend or I'm reading them. However, I have:

5 editions of Lord of the Rings (3 in separate volumes, 2 in one volume)

6 copies of The Silmarillion (I thought I had more of these... I'm wondering if there's some missing from when I moved all my books?)

7 copies of The Hobbit (hilarious considering I'm not that fond of the Hobbit, I'm also definitely missing books, time for a hunt round the house 😱😭)

2 copies of The Great Tales and the Unfinished Tales (one paperback, one hardback, Beren and Luthien is signed by Alan Lee!)

The Fall of Numenor

The Nature of Middle Earth (on my nightstand as I'm reading it)

The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings: a Reader's Companion

The History of Middle Earth volumes 1-4, 7-8, 10 (I don't know why I don't have the other volumes, all in paperback, I'm eyeing up the new hardbacks though to complete my collection)

The Art of J.R.R. Tolkien

The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films

The Making of Middle Earth

Tales from the Perilous Realm

Beowulf

The Fall of Arthur

Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo

The Complete Guide to Middle Earth

The unabridged audiobook of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings read by Rob Inglis

Theatrical cut of the Lord of the Rings films (watched once)

Extended Edition of Lord of the Rings films (watched obsessively)

Theatrical cut of The Hobbit films (watched occasionally)

Extended edition of The Hobbit films (watched once and regret it)

Howard Shores complete recordings for all three films

The standard soundtracks for LotR and The Hobbit films

All of the visual guides and companion books for the films, there's far too many of these to list!

Too many LotR themed candles, Rivendell is my favourite

A Weta print of the Argonath

A concept art print of Rivendell

A print of Alan Lee's illustration of Edoras

And, of course, my hobbit hole travellers notebook covers

This was slightly unhinged, sorry!

I have a lot of ebooks too but we'd be here until next week - Tolkien scholarship is vast 😅 I'll happily do better photos of anything you're particularly interested in! I love sharing Tolkien!

[perfectlynormalbooks]

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, translated by Jessie Weston and typeset by @mourningmountainsbindery for the Renegade Bindery tiny books exchange! Casebound in octavo with a slipcase - I like to do slipcases whenever I post copies, it alleviates some of the 'what if it gets bumped around in the mail?!' anxiety, and looks really nice anyway.

It ended up as a really cute little volume. I've been reading it on the bus this week, and I always feel super fancy when I pull it out of the case and put on my glasses.

[solradguy]

I didn't exercise today because I didn't sleep very well and now I've taken a little too much of a weed gummy BUT! I have dry oat clusters AND my copy of Begin + Begin illustration card made it to storage so after they're consolidated... I will win >:)

[bigbluehorse]

our Dungeons and Dragons party travelled to the strange fae world of Avalon, where all the world's a stage! We were cast in unfamiliar roles (the Baddies of classic Arthurian legend), and had to navigate our parts on our real quest to destroy the Round Table — and save the world, of course! My PC was turned into The Questing Beast.

(I wanted to copy the art style of the lithograph illustrations by Virgil Burnett in my beloved 1983 copy of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight)

[heartyearning]

My mother studied what was at the time known as Germanic languages and has since been rebranded to language & literature studies which basically means she has a library about three times the size of mine (especially since she, unlike me, is unable to get rid of books) and of course I deeply enjoy perusing said library and found her school copy of Gawain & the green knight full of her notes. Very cool shit.

[eviltoxicmosssauce]

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Last song - Hellfire from High Noon Over Camelot by the Mechanisms

Favorite color - Purple.... or green maybe... I can't choose

Currently watching - nothing in particular, I don't have time

Last movie - I can't even remember, it might have been The Boy And The Heron?

Currently reading - Check & Mate for my friend's book club, it's a sort of chess romance thing, not my favorite but it's not bad

Sweet/savory/spicy - I have a massive sweet tooth. My favorite candies are those spicy tamarind paste things, they're SO good I would absolutely recommend if you haven't tried them

Relationship status - The only romance in my life is gwaincelot and of course romancing my video game blorbos and I plan to keep it that way ✨

Current interests - .....GAWAIN AND LANCELOT HOMOEROTICISM IN ARTHURIAN LEGEND. and also arthuriana in general, I'm working my way through Morte d'Arthur and trying to get my hands on a copy of Knight of the Cart. They just make me so feral. I've also been playing BG3 (which you know Sunny but everyone else should go find my sideblog @mosses-gate-3 if you wanna talk about it :3). Gale my beloved.

Last thing googled - 5e cleric subclasses and their uses, I was making a d&d character!

Last selfie/photo - I don't do pictures here sorry :)

[lesbianboyfriend]

hiii jules 10 16 32 and um 43 for the book asks if you'd like <3

hiiiii reid my love!!! kisses xoxo <3 i am also realizing now that it is somewhat hard to answer these questions when half of my books are still in a box from when i moved in. and yes that was sixth months ago i don’t want to talk about it. nevertheless i persevere

10. favorite classical literature: ooh okay here are some!! jane eyre, nightwood, giovanni’s room, if beale street could talk, the color purple, mother night, sir gawain and the green knight, lancelot: the knight of the cart, medea, we have always lived in the castle, all my sons, pride & prejudice, northanger abbey

16. favorite trilogy: broken earth trilogy foreverrrr okay <3 no i haven’t even read the third book yet but i still know it’s the best.

32. favorite author(s): i’m really bad at reading a lot of books by the same author and i don’t think i have one stand-out favorite but here are some ppl i enjoy!! kurt vonnegut, jane austen, shirley jackson, n. k. jemisin, helen oyeyemi, maggie stiefvater, mary oliver, ellen kushner, jeanette winterson, megan whalen turner, tamsyn muir, james baldwin, nghi vo

43. book i own in the worst physical condition and what happened to it: i wish i had an interesting answer to this but i think it’s my copy of gottfried von strassberg’s tristan. i ordered it used and it just came in pretty bad condition. it has one of those crunchy covers that you can just snap pieces off of that is missing several pieces and being held together by some tape

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