Paul Deane
rhunedhel.bsky.social
Paul Deane
@rhunedhel.bsky.social
Editor of Forgotten Ground Regained (https://alliteration.net), a website devoted to modern English alliterative verse. If you like Beowulf, or Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, or Tolkien's Fall of Arthur or Sigurd and Gudrun, you're in for a treat.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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The study of Anglo-Saxon had a key role in the early development of English degrees at British universities.
November 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Perhaps you should devote episodes to other weirdos who wrote poems about women! Like Catullus, say ... 😉

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Catullus, Poem No. 3, translated into alliterative verse by Brian Bishop
Grieve, o gods, who guard love; / mourn, mortals, men of gentility: / My lovely’s linnet ‧ lies dead ...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Also in the current issue of Forgotten Ground Regained: four poems by @dgplacenames.bsky.social. The third one, "Merry Dancers", is in modern Scots. It is an example of the Norse form, dróttkvætt.

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Merry Dancers, an alliterative poem in Scots by Colin Mackenzie
The Bear’s noust was buskit / bricht, as langships flichtered / skinklin sails in seelent / seas abune the easin ...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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The current issue of Forgotten Ground Regained also has a sample of galdralag -- Norse spell meter -- in @frankcoffman.bsky.social 's "The Galdrmaðr Weaves an Evil Spell"

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The Galdrmaðr Weaves an Evil Spell, a poem in alliterative verse by Frank Coffman
... my tongue is weapon—both warp and woof / to weave with words my wrath; / fell phrases to unfold ...
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November 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Also in the current issue of Forgotten Ground Regained: four poems by @dgplacenames.bsky.social. The first one, "Mabie Forest", is an example of the Norse form, hagmælt (‘skillfully spoken’).

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Mabie Forest, a poem in alliterative verse by Colin Mackenzie
Fronds of finely / frosted, glossy / bracken buckle ...
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November 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 AM