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Mar. 8th, 2005 04:44 pmFinished my translations. Still have:
Blech. I did learn some neat stuff while doing my Middle English translation, though. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight spends a whole stanza and a half (these are long stanzas) on the proper method of cutting apart a caught deer.
I found out that it was standard practice in Medieval hunting to toss a certain bone of the deer (not sure which) to the ravens as an offering. It was called the Raven's Fee. I wonder how that custom started?
- 1450 pages to read (550 for tomorrow)
- 12 essays to mark (for tomorrow)
- a prospectus to write (for next week)
- no translations (but more to be assigned tonight)
- a short presentation due in four hours on this article arguing that Tolkien and Davis were wrong not to insert quotation marks around lines 1284-1287. I can't make this stuff up. Her essay is 16 pages.
Blech. I did learn some neat stuff while doing my Middle English translation, though. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight spends a whole stanza and a half (these are long stanzas) on the proper method of cutting apart a caught deer.
I found out that it was standard practice in Medieval hunting to toss a certain bone of the deer (not sure which) to the ravens as an offering. It was called the Raven's Fee. I wonder how that custom started?
