Here are posts labelled "Anonymous" on The Guide
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| Southern Plantation Workers |
Just the Facts:
- Name: "Negro" Spirituals
- Dates: started in 18th century
- Place: America, especially the South
- Language: English
- What they were: Christian songs created by African slaves in the United States
Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
updates on Facebook and Twitter.
Follow along!
Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!
Just the Facts:
- Name: Jin Ping Mei
- Known as: The Plum in the Golden Vase
- Dates: first printed in 1610
- Place: China
- Language: Chinese
- What it is: Chinese novel attributed to "Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng" (a pseudonym)
- Included in lists (What's This?): LRP
Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
updates on Facebook and Twitter. Follow along!
Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!
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| Xibalba, the Mayan underworld |
Just the Facts:
- Name: Popol Vuh
- A;so known as: Popol Wu'uj
- Dates: between 1554 and 1558
- Place: Guatemala
- Language: Quiche (K'iche')
- What it is: Mayan mythological text
Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
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Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!
Just the Facts:
- Name: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Dates: late 14th century
- Place: England
- Language: English
- What it is: English poem; anonymous, but thought to be by "The Pearl Poet"
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Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
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| from a modern production |
Just the Facts:
- Name: The Wakefield 2nd Shepherds' Play
- Dates: 15th century
- Place: England
- Language: English
- What it is: Part of a body of "miracle plays," Medieval works preceding the blooming of theater in Shakespeare's day
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Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
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Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!
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| Frontispiece from Everyman, c. 1530 |
Just the Facts:
- Name: Everyman
- Dates: late 15th-century
- Place: England
- Language: English
- What it is: English morality play
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Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
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Ceridwen, an enchantress in the Mabinogion,
by Christopher Williams |
Just the Facts:
- Name: The Mabinogion
- Dates: 12th-13th centuries
- Place: Wales
- Language: Welsh
- What it is: Welsh story collection, including Welsh and other Celtic traditions
Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
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Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!
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| The Death of Norna-Gest |
Just the Facts:
- Name: Norna-gests Thattr
- Known as: The Story of Norna-Gest
- Dates: c. 1300
- Place: Iceland
- Language: Icelandic
- What it is: Icelandic tale about a Norse hero who would live only as long as the candle next to his crib lasted
Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
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Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!
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| The Passing of Robin Hood by N. C. Wyeth |
Just the Facts:
- Name: Robin Hood
- Dates: Late Middle Ages
- Place: England
- Language: English
- What they were: songs and stories of an English folk hero of the lower classes who "robbed from the rich and gave to the poor"
Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
updates on Facebook and Twitter. Follow along!
Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!
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| scene from the Genpei War |
Just the Facts:
- Name: Heike Monogatari
- Known as: Tale of the Heike
- Dates: 13th-14th centuries
- Place: Japan
- Language: Japanese
- What it is: Japanese epic of the Genpei War (1180-1185)
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Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
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Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!
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| After a rock inscription illustrating the Volsung Saga |
Just the Facts:
- Name: Volsunga Saga
- Dates: Icelandic
- Place: Iceland
- Language: Icelandic
- What it is: Icelandic prose saga on the origin and decline of the Völsung clan
- Included in lists (What's This?): HC
Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
updates on Facebook and Twitter. Follow along!
Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!
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| Genghis Khan |
Just the Facts:
- Name: Mongolyn nuuts tovchoo
- Known as: The Secret History of the Mongols, called in Chinese Yuanchao mishi, or The Secret History of the Yuan Dynasty
- Dates: after the death of Genghis Khan in 1227
- Place: Mongolia? China?
- Language: Mongolian
- What it is: a Mongolian account of the life of Genghis Khan
Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
updates on Facebook and Twitter. Follow along!
Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!
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| Gunnar and Hallgerdr |
Just the Facts:
- Name: Njals Saga
- Known as: The Story of Burnt Njal
- Dates: 13th century, though describing events between 960 and 1020
- Place: Iceland
- Language: Icelandic
- What it is: Icelandic saga about the friends Njáll Thorgeirsson (a scholar) and Gunnar Hámundarson (a warrior) and their involvement in feuding (much of it caused by Gunnar's evil wife Hallgerdr) that leads to the death of Njall by fire.
Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
updates on Facebook and Twitter. Follow along!
Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!
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| Theoderic (Dietrich) fights the Wild Man |
Just the Facts:
- Name: The Thidrekssaga
- Dates: 13th century
- Place: Germany (?)
- Language: Old Norse
- What it is: Old Norse saga about Theoderic the Great (Dietrich von Bern)
Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
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Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!
Just the Facts:
- Name: El Cantar de mio Cid
- Known as: The Poem of the Cid
- Dates: composed sometime between 1140 and 1207
- Place: Spain
- Language: Old Spanish
- What it is: Spanish epic poem about a hero named "El Cid" (Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar) and his role in evicting the Moors from Spain
- Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom
Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
updates on Facebook and Twitter. Follow along!
Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!
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| Siegfried and Kriemhild |
Just the Facts:
- Name: Nibelungenlied
- Known as: The Song of the Nibelungs
- Dates: between 1180 and 1210
- Place: Germany
- Language: German
- What it is: German epic poem about how Siegfried slayed a dragon, how he was murdered, and how his wife Kriemhild sought revenge
- Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom
Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
updates on Facebook and Twitter. Follow along!
Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!
Just the Facts:
- Name: The Cattle Raid of Cooley
- Also known as: Táin Bó Cúailnge, or just The Táin
- Dates: 12th century or later
- Place: Ireland
- Language: Gaelic
- What it is: tells of an attack--styled a "war"--on Ulster by the queen of Connacht and her men, who attempt to steal a bull; Ulster's defense depends on the teenaged hero Cú Chulainn. It is the central text of the "Ulster Cycle," one of the four great cycles of Irish mythology.
Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
updates on Facebook and Twitter. Follow along!
Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!
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| Conaire Mor |
Just the Facts:
- Name: The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel
- Also known as: Togail Bruidne Dá Derga
- Dates: 12th century or later
- Place: Ireland
- Language: Gaelic
- What it is: a tale from the Irish "Ulster Cycle" telling the life and death of Conaire Mor, a legendary High King of Ireland, who is killed at Da Derga's hostel by his enemies after violating taboos.
- Included in lists (What's This?): HC
Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
updates on Facebook and Twitter. Follow along!
Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!
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"Odin and the Völva" (1895) by Lorenz Frølich,
first and best-known tale in the Poetic Edda |
Just the Facts:
- Name: Poetic Edda
- Dates: presumed 12th century
- Place: Iceland
- Language: Old Norse
- What it is: collection of poetry in Old Norse (sometimes attributed to Saemundr the Learned) including Norse mythology and tales of human heroes
- Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom
Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
updates on Facebook and Twitter. Follow along!
Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!
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| The eight phases of The Song of Roland in one picture |
Just the Facts:
- Name: La Chanson de Roland
- Known as: The Song of Roland
- Dates: developed from 1040 to 1115
- Place: France
- Language: Old French; Anglo-Norman
- What it is: French epic poem based on the Battle of Roncevaux (778)
- Included in lists (What's This?): HC; Bloom
Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
updates on Facebook and Twitter. Follow along!
Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!
