LightNews
rhunedhel.bsky.social
Paul Deane
@rhunedhel.bsky.social
3.1K followers 6.4K following 2.2K posts
Editor of Forgotten Ground Regained (https://alliteration.net), a website devoted to modern English alliterative verse. If you like Beowulf, or Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, or Tolkien's Fall of Arthur or Sigurd and Gudrun, you're in for a treat.
alliteration.net),
Posts Media Videos Starter Packs
Pinned
rhunedhel.bsky.social
Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 7d
I'm currently reading submissoins for the Fall issue of Forgotten Ground Regained. In the meantime,enjoy the current issue!

alliteration.net/current-issue/ #alliterative #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poetrysky #BlueSkyPoets #poetsOnBlueSky #submissionscall #alliterativeverse
Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse
New Series 2, Summer, 2025: Protests, Prophetic Voices, and Poetic Battles
alliteration.net
1 1 4
rhunedhel.bsky.social
Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 36m
www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/the-ancien... by @colingorrie.bsky.social
The ancient art of beating about the bush
Why you should care about kennings
www.deadlanguagesociety.com
2
rhunedhel.bsky.social
Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 1h
jacklaurel.substack.com/p/anglo-saxo...
Anglo-Saxon Rhythms
The modern revival of the oldest English verse-style
jacklaurel.substack.com
rhunedhel.bsky.social
Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 1h
joffreswait.substack.com/p/why-i-neve...
Why I Never Submit to Literary Magazines
"There was a little moment of fear. Was I making excuses? Was I afraid that I wasn’t actually good enough? Was I simply scared of rejection?"
joffreswait.substack.com
rhunedhel.bsky.social
Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 1h
oliviamarstall.substack.com/p/why-meter-...
Why Meter Is Not Essential to Poetry
Contra Robert Charboneau
oliviamarstall.substack.com
Reposted by Paul Deane
mythicalbritain.bsky.social
Mythical Britain @mythicalbritain.bsky.social · 5h
Gawain as imagined by creatives through time - an assessment of different artists’ approaches to the magnificence of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. An excellent resource!
guildmedmak.bsky.social
The Guild of Medievalist Makers @guildmedmak.bsky.social · 7d
Those who teach and research Sir Gawain and the Green Knight will be interested in this fantastic research hub concerned with historic and contemporary creative responses to the late medieval poem. They're also looking for contributors, so do get in contact with @michaeledenart.bsky.social! 👇
Representing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Representing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a research hub concerned with historic and contemporary creative responses to the late medieval poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (circa 1370). Illu...
www.representing-sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight.com
1 3
Reposted by Paul Deane
thaliarchus.bsky.social
Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 3h
No stream today, but check in at 1800 UTC/GMT tomorrow for some narrative verse!
www.twitch.tv/thaliarchus
thaliarchus - Twitch
Games, poems, oddments.
www.twitch.tv
1 1
rhunedhel.bsky.social
Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 16h
Doesn't look like I have access there ...
Reposted by Paul Deane
tolkiensociety.org
Tolkien Society @tolkiensociety.org · 22h
#Tolkien Society Seminar - next week

Don't forget to sign up to our 2025 Seminar on "Arda's Entangled Bodies and Environments" taking place on Saturday 18 October. The event is free to attend and open to all. The full schedule is on our website. www.tolkiensociety.org/events/semin... #BookSky
Tolkien Society Seminar 2025 – Arda’s Entangled Bodies and Environments
The Tolkien Society Seminar is a short conference of both researcher-led and non-academic presentations on a specific theme pertaining to Tolkien scholarship. After the seminar, all paper recordings f...
www.tolkiensociety.org
4 17
Reposted by Paul Deane
rhunedhel.bsky.social
Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 2d
There are a several RPGs that use alliterative verse in their lore, including Elden Ring. I list them with fanfic on this information page I maintain about the use of alliterative verse in speculative fiction & related things like fanfic and games ...

alliteration.net/community/speculative-fiction/
The Speculative Fiction Community
One of the main ways alliterative verse has spead is through the science fiction and fantasy community. The links on this page provide a panoramic view of the creativity thus unleashed.
alliteration.net
1 1 3
Reposted by Paul Deane
elfprince13.mumak.app
Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 1d
Highly recommend this read on Tolkien and fascism (and also generally following @matthewdickerson.bsky.social)
matthewdickerson.bsky.social
matthewdickerson.bsky.social @matthewdickerson.bsky.social · 1d
For those folks who appreciate the wisdom of #jrrtolkien and #middle-earth here is a new piece I had published just this morning on Tolkien’s insights gleaned in the 20th century and how he portrayed fascism and tyranny and capitalism in his writings: washingtoninst.org/capitalism-f...
Capitalism, Fascism, and the Wisdom of J.R.R. Tolkien | The Washington Institute
As last century wound to a close, author and scholar Tom Shippey published J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century, one of the most important works in the field of Tolkien studies. In the book, Shippey ...
washingtoninst.org
1 4
Reposted by Paul Deane
adamroberts.bsky.social
Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 2d
Riddling a riddling riddle. profadamroberts.substack.com/p/exeter-rid...
Exeter Riddle 82
A riddle of a riddle
profadamroberts.substack.com
3 5 7
Reposted by Paul Deane
kitkerr.bsky.social
Katharine Kit Kerr @kitkerr.bsky.social · 1d
3 10
Reposted by Paul Deane
mythicalbritain.bsky.social
Mythical Britain @mythicalbritain.bsky.social · 2d
A view towards The Bongs, from Crosfield Bridge above Lymm Dam, Cheshire. Bongs is thought to be a corruption of the Middle English “bonks” (slopes or hill/valley sides; possibly wooded), a word which appears in a number of northern Middle English texts including Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Trees in narrow river valley viewed from a bridge.
2 6
Reposted by Paul Deane
tammykomoff.bsky.social
Tammy Komoff @tammykomoff.bsky.social · 1d
We almost lost the Middle-English Poem Beowulf to fire!

Buried in the private Cotton library, the only copy of Beowulf was never truly studied.

Then in 1731, a fire destroyed Ashburnham House & most of the library. In a desperate attempt to save the codex a heroic librarian flung the smoking ⬇️
A badly burned manuscript page of the poem Beowulf. Ashburnham House, the building where the private Cotton Library was kept containing the only copy of Beowulf. It burned in 1731. Most of the books went up in flames, but a few were saved.
1 6 31
rhunedhel.bsky.social
Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 1d
Free info here, including some online translations. Tim Romano's in particular is pretty good. If you want a published translation, I list seven on the second page link below. I'd recommend Douglas Wilson's.

alliteration.net/historical-t...
alliteration.net/books/transl...
Beowulf: Resources for Understanding the Great Alliterative Poem
A Beowful compendium, including translations of key passages, plus links to the old English text, four online translations, a modern English performance of the whole poem, and other resources.
alliteration.net
rhunedhel.bsky.social
Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 1d
Enjoy!
1
rhunedhel.bsky.social
Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 2d
Mind you, an easy-to-read modern translation also has its good points! I've got one ongoing at alliteration.net/poetry/sggk/ ... currently starting on my translation of Book IV.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Translating the Middle English poem into modern alliterative verse.
This ongoing translation by Paul D. Deane takes the classic Middle English poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by the anonymous Pearl Poet and sets it in modern alliterative verse.
alliteration.net
Reposted by Paul Deane
drlauravarnam.bsky.social
Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 4d
I love the title ‘She Speaks’- very much in line with my poetic adaptation of Beowulf, the women tell their side of the story!
vonprice.bsky.social
Veronica Price @vonprice.bsky.social · 4d
Today I’m recommending 2 beautiful #NonFiction titles for #MG readers, both written by #HonorCargillMartin
#SheSpeaks… is published by @magiccatpublishing.bsky.social & #ShakespearesHeroines is published by @hachettechildrens.bsky.social
#UkKidLit

vsviewfromthebookshelves.home.blog/2025/10/05/f...
Fabulous Non-Fiction from Honor Cargill-Martin: Shakespeare’s Heroines and She Speaks: The Women of Norse Myths in their own Words
Cover art by Pauliina Hannuniemi, published by Magic Cat Publishing, 25 September 2025, ISBN:978-1917044813 Cover art by Jaimee Andrews, published by Hachette Children’s Books, 23 October 202…
vsviewfromthebookshelves.home.blog
1 5
Reposted by Paul Deane
refrag.bsky.social
Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 2d
For #TolkienTrewsday (aka #TolkienTuesday), a video about Tolkien having a bit of a rant over a single kenning in Beowulf, that's probably been subtly mistranslated for years.

youtu.be/Gs0x14pgX2c?...
Tolkien's Problem with Beowulf Translations
YouTube video by Graham Scheper
youtu.be
2 6
Reposted by Paul Deane
rosemarykirstein.bsky.social
Rosemary Kirstein @rosemarykirstein.bsky.social · 2d
This book is so brilliant! Plus, when I wanted to write a poem in the style of Beowulf, and exhausted myself by all the intense scrutinizing and analysis involved, I took refreshing breaks by reading this, laughing with delight, and applauding in admiration!
zachweinersmith.bsky.social
Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 3d
Hey geeks! Bea Wolf is ultra-discounted on Amazon for 2 days only: www.amazon.com/Bea-Wolf-Zac...
Bea Wolf
Bea Wolf [Weinersmith, Zach, Boulet] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Bea Wolf
www.amazon.com
1 4 10
Reposted by Paul Deane
dgplacenames.bsky.social
dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 2d
CLASP (A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry) has, among other things, a full scansion of Beowulf!

clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/db-latest/po...
1 1 5
rhunedhel.bsky.social
Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 2d
There are a several RPGs that use alliterative verse in their lore, including Elden Ring. I list them with fanfic on this information page I maintain about the use of alliterative verse in speculative fiction & related things like fanfic and games ...

alliteration.net/community/speculative-fiction/
The Speculative Fiction Community
One of the main ways alliterative verse has spead is through the science fiction and fantasy community. The links on this page provide a panoramic view of the creativity thus unleashed.
alliteration.net
1 1 3
Reposted by Paul Deane
zachweinersmith.bsky.social
Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 3d
Hey geeks! Bea Wolf is ultra-discounted on Amazon for 2 days only: www.amazon.com/Bea-Wolf-Zac...
Bea Wolf
Bea Wolf [Weinersmith, Zach, Boulet] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Bea Wolf
www.amazon.com
5 18 96
Reposted by Paul Deane
dimitrafimi.bsky.social
Prof. Dimitra Fimi @dimitrafimi.bsky.social · 3d
For #TolkienTuesday: the second part (out of three) of my essay on childhood in Tolkien’s legendarium, this time focusing on Túrin Turambar and the tragic hero’s childhood.

dimitrafimi.substack.com/p/constructi...

@uofgfantasy.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social
Constructions of Childhood in Tolkien’s Legendarium (2): Túrin Turambar's childhood
This is the second part of a longer piece on constructions of childhood in Tolkien’s legendarium.
dimitrafimi.substack.com
7 27
Reposted by Paul Deane
curious-blue-dot.bsky.social
Steve Goble, author @curious-blue-dot.bsky.social · 5d
My kid got me a new Beowulf edition for my birthday! Contains a prose translation and a poetic translation. I have a great kid! 💙📚 #booksky
1 2 15