Looking for the perfect quote
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liadethorneggeI have to do up a little stage-by-stage thing of how we do illumination/scrolls in the SCA for our upcoming demo. I thought to do it like six series of initials starting a short text all on one page. The problem I am having is - what text would suit being broken up in six parts with an initial starting each piece. And the snippets can't be too long either.
It would be awesome if it could be some sort of medieval text, song lyrics maybe? a poem? If not that then maybe short texts describing either a) the SCA b) my shire c) the process of illumination d) what scrolls are.
Then I might do more stuff around these initials and snippets of text, but that's above and beyond what I'd planned originally.
Anyway, I post here because someone who reads might have a really good suggestion for a text that would suit. I'm not sure about language, if I should do it in Swedish or if English is ok... I even started looking to my own poetry, but I'll leave that as a very last resort I think :P
ETA: It came to me as self-evident: The Canterbury Tales!
I searched and promptly found this excellent site with middle and modern English side by side. I also found the British Library's two Caxton editions online for perusal. I could write it in middle English with the proper script, but I don't know the proper script, nor can most people read it, so I'll go for the modern translation, taking the introductions to the knight, squire, monk, prioress, miller and merchant.
It would be awesome if it could be some sort of medieval text, song lyrics maybe? a poem? If not that then maybe short texts describing either a) the SCA b) my shire c) the process of illumination d) what scrolls are.
Then I might do more stuff around these initials and snippets of text, but that's above and beyond what I'd planned originally.
Anyway, I post here because someone who reads might have a really good suggestion for a text that would suit. I'm not sure about language, if I should do it in Swedish or if English is ok... I even started looking to my own poetry, but I'll leave that as a very last resort I think :P
ETA: It came to me as self-evident: The Canterbury Tales!
I searched and promptly found this excellent site with middle and modern English side by side. I also found the British Library's two Caxton editions online for perusal. I could write it in middle English with the proper script, but I don't know the proper script, nor can most people read it, so I'll go for the modern translation, taking the introductions to the knight, squire, monk, prioress, miller and merchant.
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Date: 2005-08-25 09:46 pm (UTC)THe other thing you might like is Pangur Ban (http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Trails/2237/lit/PangurBan.html) (there are other translations).