Anyone else doing Nanowrimo?
Oct. 12th, 2011 04:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elingregoryMore in hope than conviction, because madam STILL hasn't shifted her trash out of my work room, I've signed up and got my new Nanowrimo page ready.
This year I'm doing 7th century Romano-Brits battling the Saxons down through Yorkshire - sort of like "300" only without the little leather posing pouches. Obviously this takes some background reading so I'm ploughing through all the different translations of the Gododdin, the source material. Some of it reads like it's been put through Babelfish:
Thou slayest them with blades, without much noise:
Thou, powerful pillar of living right, causest stillness.
But I have to admit that I really like the line:
The son of Bodgad, by the energy of his hand, caused a throbbing.
Of what, it doesn't say but the poem continues "Though they went to church to do penance / The old, the young, and the bold handed, / The inevitable strife of death was to pierce them" so this may be one of the first instances of the old "if you do that you'll go blind, grow hair on your palms and die" canard.
Hmm - now I've thought of that I may have to write it. When I get desperate, about Day 25.
This year I'm doing 7th century Romano-Brits battling the Saxons down through Yorkshire - sort of like "300" only without the little leather posing pouches. Obviously this takes some background reading so I'm ploughing through all the different translations of the Gododdin, the source material. Some of it reads like it's been put through Babelfish:
Thou slayest them with blades, without much noise:
Thou, powerful pillar of living right, causest stillness.
But I have to admit that I really like the line:
The son of Bodgad, by the energy of his hand, caused a throbbing.
Of what, it doesn't say but the poem continues "Though they went to church to do penance / The old, the young, and the bold handed, / The inevitable strife of death was to pierce them" so this may be one of the first instances of the old "if you do that you'll go blind, grow hair on your palms and die" canard.
Hmm - now I've thought of that I may have to write it. When I get desperate, about Day 25.
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Date: 2011-10-25 06:51 am (UTC)Not everyone comes close to full points every month. Not sure I will this time.