Agon (w/ a lobster)

A Beowulfian conflict between a lobster and a heroic GP.

Oft him anhaga are gebideth...

... hreran mid hondum hrimcealde sae

Knock this guy over his crupper!

Who knows where he gets horses this small?

Pictures

Hoping all of you are surviving this weird spring weather. It's sane in P'ton, but still froggy and unpleasant.



Fresh baked pellet pie!




"We are your over-looooords!"

New GP scene

Sorry for the sporadicity lately -- I've been really busy. But as a reward, because you've all been so good -- here's a new picture.



A famous extended simile from a notable conversation in the first story of the Canterbury Tales.

Miller's Tale Pigs

From our continuing series of Images from Page and Screen...

New Scene

Here's another in the "Scenes from Page and Screen," this week featuring the early fourteenth century romance Havelok:

"In the night, as Goldborow lay, sorry and sorrowful was she always, for she believed she was deceived, and married against her degree. One night she saw therein a light, a light so fair, so bright-- So bright and shining, as if it were a blaze of fire. She looked north and also south, and saw it came out of Havelok's mouth, who lay beside her in bed."

Guineas in history

Line-rendering of a historiated capital (s. xiv 2/2) from "Legenda Cavia" (British Library MS Royal 78, fol. 39v)