I’ve embedded video from youtube, of performances of quoted material at my own web log, no sign of it, https://nosignofit.wordpress.com/2016/11/18/video-links-for-literary-essay/ – I especially like the performance of selections of Morte d’Arthur in the original late Medieval dialect.
by E. John Winner
This essay is composed of informal reflections on the historical impact of the recent election; therefore, I hope the reader forgives the lack of endnotes and links supporting much of what I say here, since I am not making a case but offering a personal point of view.
From Le Morte D’Arthur by Thomas Malory, The Twenty-first Book, Chapter IV:
Then the king gat his spear in both his hands, and ran toward Sir Mordred, crying, Traitor, now is thy death day come. And when Sir Mordred heard Sir Arthur, he ran until him with his sword drawn in his hand. And then king Arthur smote Sir Mordred under the shield, with a foin of his spear throughout the body more than a fathom. And when Sir Mordred felt that he had his death’s wound, he thrust himself, with the might that he had, up to…
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