Chaucer/Pearl Poet OTP
Mar. 22nd, 2006 08:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elabyYou guys have GOT to see the latest addition to Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog. This will be particularly interesting to:
a) people who have wondered who the Pearl Poet, author of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", was
b) people who have seen/read Brokeback Mountain
d) a and b
e) everybody else.
Ich and the Perle poete, on Mont Dorse-quasse
Possibly my favorite lines:
... he dide recyte vnto me a tale of Gawaine and the Grene knighte, of whiche he hadde two fitts ywritten. “Ywis,” quod I, “Shal Gavvaine swyve the wyf of Bertilak? And yf so, ergo, shal Gawayne paraunter swyve Bertilak?”
“Certes,” he sayd, “t’wolde plesen Kynge Richarde!”
and
“Nay,” quod he, “Sholde this thynge seise us, ynne the wronge place, such as for ensaumple mass, thenne we sholde ben lit uppe lyke lollardes. If thou canst not hele yt, thou muste stande it.”
“I WOLDE I KNEWE HOW OF THEE I MIGHT BE QUITTEN!”
*dies dead*
a) people who have wondered who the Pearl Poet, author of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", was
b) people who have seen/read Brokeback Mountain
d) a and b
e) everybody else.
Ich and the Perle poete, on Mont Dorse-quasse
Possibly my favorite lines:
... he dide recyte vnto me a tale of Gawaine and the Grene knighte, of whiche he hadde two fitts ywritten. “Ywis,” quod I, “Shal Gavvaine swyve the wyf of Bertilak? And yf so, ergo, shal Gawayne paraunter swyve Bertilak?”
“Certes,” he sayd, “t’wolde plesen Kynge Richarde!”
and
“Nay,” quod he, “Sholde this thynge seise us, ynne the wronge place, such as for ensaumple mass, thenne we sholde ben lit uppe lyke lollardes. If thou canst not hele yt, thou muste stande it.”
“I WOLDE I KNEWE HOW OF THEE I MIGHT BE QUITTEN!”
*dies dead*
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Date: 2006-03-23 06:50 pm (UTC)“I WOLDE I KNEWE HOW OF THEE I MIGHT BE QUITTEN!”
*snickergiggle* I have to mark this and come back and read the whole thing when I have time ...
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Date: 2006-03-24 12:46 pm (UTC)