A bit belated, but this was a fun project to work on. Andoni Cossio and I edited up Tolkien's translation of Sawles Warde, "Protection of the Soul", a 13th-century Middle English text. Tolkien was especially interested in the West Midlands dialect of the text. academic.oup.com/res/advance-...

Anyone know about any in-progress conlang projects associated with upcoming movies/shows/games/etc? I'd also be interested in any artlangs (not necessarily new ones) coming from outside the Euro-American world.

My article on Metre and Clitics in Old English and Old Saxon has just appeared in Glossa. Basically an attempt to use metre to get a better handle on the prosody of things like prepositions and the development of articles in those languages. Really enjoyed working with Glossa -- a model journal!

Metre and clitics in Old English and Old Saxon

This article attempts to extract prosodic information from Germanic (here, Old English and Old Saxon) alliterative poetry by integrating multiple theoretical frameworks. The metrical theories of Sieve...

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Hwæt ic þone wulf ge·seah, and ðā weosolan ēac, and mid him ðone frēcnan fox, fēðum swiftne, wīs-cræftig dēor, þe mid Wealhum bið Regnheard nemned, rēafiend henna, lācan lustum, līð-fatu drincan.

This is in many ways a model edition of Beowulf. Intended to provide a sound edition incorporating Sievers' discoveries about the poem's metre, it is sensibly edited, with an economical glossary, and compact but rich notes -- plus four other short Old English poems and the German Hildebrandslied.

Hey so cool news for the thousands of people who were hype for our Mongolian courier rider game a few months ago: we're doing a giveaway for 10 Early Access Steam Keys! To participate: 1. Follow our pre-page on kickstarter (click 'notify me on launch') 2. Like and Retweet this post

Alice Ruppert 🐴🎮@malicedafirenze.bsky.social · 2y ago

We're making a game where you play a courier rider in 13th century Mongolia No combat, just you, the horse(s) you've tamed, bred and trained and the vast wilderness. Would you play this?

In case there are people on here who really like bloody and gruesome Norse poetry, I thought maybe I could start my time here with a translation of the Atlakviða (The Lay of Atli) I made for students. I'll post the stanzas in small batches, and give some context in a following thread. #Atli