I have *officially* completed a full draft of my #Ormulum translation, including an intro that needs revision! Now to work on the book proposal (ie, my hyperfixation has come, almost, to an end)! #MedievalSky #EarlyMiddleEnglish #OrmLove
Y’all!! Only 852 lines left to translate of the #Ormulum!! It’s only take me a decade… 🙃 #MedievalSky #EarlyMiddleEnglish #OrmLove
Orm doesn’t like the fleshy life. 😂
“Flæs[h]like follc. i flæshliȝ lif;
Flæshlike all unnderrstodenn.
Þe laferrd cristess word. tatt was.
Gastlike tunnderrstanndenn.” (16256-69)
We get it, Orm. We’re revoltingly fleshly. #Ormulum #OrmLove #MedievalSky #EarlyMiddleEnglish
From #Ormulum, 7158-7167: "it well might be that he [Herod] was furious, & fierce, & angry all for nothing bc he so wished to make his people all the more afraid of him & of his fear, for if the rich person is violent & grim, & tough to please, his people who are under him fear him the more."
The #OrangeMenace & all those beneath him come to mind as I translate Homily 10 of #Ormulum, which is long & about Jesus’s birth, but the section that sticks out the most right now is on Herod and his rule. Read below for the translated quotation. #MedievalSky #EarlyMiddleEnglish #OrmLove
I've finished revising the Preface & Homilies 1-8 of #Ormulum, & I'm already at 91pp. I begin new translations next week w the goal of having a full draft by April 1! At this rate, excluding intro & critical apparatus, this beast will easily be over 300pp. 😳 #MedievalSky #EarlyMiddleEnglish #OrmLOVE
Today’s #OrmLove: all maidens should be ashamed of “scaldess” (poets) bringing “unnþæwfull” (indecent) & “wælinng” (tempting) words before them (l. 2,190ish). Gabriel visiting her as a man made Mary “forrshamedd”… Hilarious to think of Gabe reciting scandalous poetry to Mary. #MedievalSky #Ormulum
Revising my #Ormulum translations from 2015 w the corrected EETS edition is wild. Baby Medievalist Carla did ok w what they had, but wow… some things were just BAD. 😂 #OrmLove #MedievalSky
I’ve translated 2/3 of #Ormulum based on the old Holt edition. I’ve been slowly revising those translations w the new EETS edition. With a teaching release in Spring, a full draft should be complete! Stay tuned for random snippets here to keep myself accountable. 😂 #MedievalSky #OrmLove
#MakingEME #s10 MKazakoff "I don't know if we can call the #Ormulum beautiful but..." #OrmLOVE
