The Kalethulu

[Swatopluk]

The most recent update on the Örhandar Saga.
As far as I can see there is one major scene still missing (Játvarður finds out who Ottar really is) but several others need completion or connections to those before and after them. Plus the whole complex of Gerðr after the battle of Oxford needs reordering (not fully sure which exact order the events should follow).
Difficult to do the way I did most of the writing, i.e. in public transport vehicles or sitting in waiting rooms. That caused a lot of lack in continuity (and doubling of some scenes).

[RobertMason]

Maybe a little bit of subtle doubling (even subtle, inconsistent doubling?) and such might be good, as a way to hint at different traditions that grew out of a single original story over the generations and someone later tried to revise and blend into each other, but not so perfectly?

I'm obviously saying this without any idea how well those rugged Northmen did or did not keep their sagas from mutating over time, and what later generations would or would not do when confronted with several stories that may have been or definitely were different versions of the same story. Did they choose one over the others? Consider them all equally valid? Ignore the problem? Splice them, as I describe here?

[Swatopluk]

The Gerdalied now has reached 500 stanzas (á 4 lines). No end in sight

Edit: now 614 stanzas

[Swatopluk]

Unholy digestive final semisolid product!
666 stanzas (plus a half for safety)

[Opsa]

Holy Mark of the Beast, Swatman!

[Swatopluk]

Now at 809 stanzas and no end in sight

I attach a copy of the current state for safekeeping and for those who may be interested in the progress

[Swatopluk]

Since I may have use again for Latin in the not too distant future (if it is my fate to become a chemistry and Latin teacher) I thought about dusting my rusted knowledge a bit off by writing something. I remembered that the legend of St.Ulufer still needed a treatment and here are the first results (from this afternoon).
Just two unconnected stanzas yet

To be sung to the tune of Hiemali tempore (Carmen Buranum 203)

Proximis sub tenebris
Britannia in vinculis
Diaboli captata
Usque ad venit Ulufer
Omnipotentis armiger
Deinde liberata
Ipse olim paganus
Serviens ululae
Cepit coronam martyrum
aemulans Ursulae
Misit bovem sub iugum
Qui fefellit longe totum populum

Est idolum iste bos
Deus punivit Hebraeos
Cum sacrificaverunt
Christum qui accipiunt
Ab infernis salvati sunt
Idola deleverunt
Baptisma necesse est
Ad animam salvandam
Solum stultus sperneret
Fortunam tam tantam
Hei veni popule
Libenter quis manet in perditione

Under still recent darkness
Britain was in chains
Of the Devil captured
Until Ulufer came
Arms carrier of the Almighty
Then she got liberated
He was once himself a pagan
Serving the owl
He took the crown of martyrs
emulating (St.)Ursula
He yoked the bull
That so long had deceived all the people

An idol is that bull
God punished the Hebrews
When they sacrificed (to it)
Those who accept Christ
They are saved from hell
(cause) They have destroyed the idols
Baptism is necessary
In order to save the soul
Only a fool would reject
Such a great chance
Hey, come ye people
Who prefers to remain in (the state) of perdition?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANHvaqzK81g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u6_GVxehHc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn7djVhT3pw

[Griffin NoName]

Are you going to teach chemistry in Latin, or Latin Chemistry? (that way you could cut down your hours but still earn the same amount).

[Swatopluk]

Well, the latter would reduce the number of elements to 4, making it easier to comprehend 

[Swatopluk]

OK, I now have passed 1000 stanzas on the Gerdalied, so it's time for an update upload.
Already 20 extra stanzas handwritten that have yet to by typed.

[Swatopluk]

The epic has now reached 1225 stanzas, i.e. 4900 lines.