Tuesday, January 02, 2007

News at Eleven: Maybe this gentle, fiercely

clever man, so obviously unimpressed by observations from outside the immediate creative point, might just be seduced by some academic whimsy. Those mysterious "woodwoses" who attack Gawain on his journey; what if the word is only a corruption of wuduwealsa, a native Celt turned savage after the Saxon conquest. What does he think of that, then?

from The Independent: Simon Armitage: Under a bardic Curse

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