As literary historians/medievalists, is storytelling our version of experimental archaeology?
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@caitlinrgreen@PeritiaEditors That's very interesting. My critical faculties are slow off the mark so all I've got is interesting at the mo -
@tomod14@PeritiaEditors Yes, my reaction too! I ended up burying it in a footnote in my book on Welsh material, but still fascinating! :)
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@caitlinrgreen@tomod14 Interesting. There are references to the use of music for story-telling/ praise-poetry in Old Irish law. -
@PeritiaEditors@tomod14 Yes, seems likely scenario here too, tho version we have of CO tale is obvs prose and literary in parts -
@caitlinrgreen@tomod14 that’s like many in Irish too -
@PeritiaEditors@tomod14 indeed :) Interesting but futile to ponder how diff Caniad y Twrch Trwyth might have been to what have, I guess! -
@PeritiaEditors@tomod14 9thC HB seems to have a different version to that in CO of the boar hunt, ofc! -
@caitlinrgreen@PeritiaEditors CO seems very compilatory. I am surprised that we don't have more individual episodes preserved separately -
@tomod14@PeritiaEditors Def agree on CO; issue is general tho--most of what we have=highly allusive, eg Pa gur?, Preideu Annwfyn, TYP etc -
@tomod14@PeritiaEditors You can trace some of 'tales' in CO in other texts but these also allusive eg Wrnach/Awarnach, Cath Paluc/Capalu :/ - 2 more replies
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