Intro to Shakespeare
Renaissance and Machiavelli
Canterbury Tales
A Shakespearean Genealogy
Portraits of Heroes in the Medieval Literature
Have you ever been to a museum looking at the old portraits which stare at your from the black background? Then you would probably get the feeling I get after reading medieval literature. I am going to write about something…
What the word “cairn” means
I just was amazed how people used those piles of stones (“cairns”) in order to snow the way on a terrain. There were other uses of those stones (burial, etc) but this use is so much practical.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Знамение Каина
Да, действительно, сегодня рассуждали, какое знамение было у Каина. Некоторые говорили – это буква “К” у него на лбу(они так сценку ставили), учительница считает, что это был особенный взгляд Каина. The Lord set a mark upon Cain, to distinguish him…
Ровные стены
Стены уже более менее ровные, но нужно ждать пока они высохнут, чтобы продолжать работу.
Beowulf
Greek Mythology 2
Beowulf words
THANE – The term thegn (or thane in Shakespearean English), from OE þegn, ðegn “servant, attendant, retainer”, is commonly employed by historians to describe either an aristocratic retainer of a king or nobleman in Anglo-Saxon England, or as a class…