Albion

Now needs revision
A passage from the material published in 2021 as 'Arthuriad: Synopsis & Excerpts', depicting  the Winter Solstice in Arthur's Albion. This is to come towards the end (naturally as the whole narrates the Wheel of the Year) of the second part of the projected Albion Tetralogy: II. Interlude: The Island of the Mighty.
This is a passage that has undergone either no or very little revision since its most recent publication, and some of it is to appear again in Dennis Wilson Wise, 'Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: A Critical Anthology', alongside work by C.S. Lewis, Auden, Heath-Stubbs, Edwin Morgan, Poul Anderson, John Myers Myers, Paul Edwin Zimmer, &c, forthcoming from Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.

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This is a prose treatise, 'The Island of the Mighty', a Synopsis furnishing a re-interpretation of The Matter of Britain for an Arthurian epic. Published 2018, I had begun work on the enterprise of an epic, at least in waking thought, in the early 1990s when I was a teenager at school.There was this nagging question that came to bother the adolescent more and more; I worried at it: Could the Arthurian story be made, as by a turn of the kaleidoscope, to make sense? I perceived that, owing to the nature (that nature due to obvious historical reasons) of the mass of bequeathed material, it would be needful to find a way to render the kernel or nucleus of the Arthurian legend coherent. To re-forge and hone the sword from the old shards.

This I undertook, by following the clues, "the evidence" handed down embedded in the traditional sources (allowing myself also the resources of other but kindred Insular lore), as in a detective thriller. What, as it were, must really have happened?

The Synopsis presents what I came up with. The spine of the Arthurian story is linked back together, the narrative reconcatenated and remotivated as a single coherent sweep, whilst cleaving faithfully to that "evidence" recorded in the tradition. But the outcome proves to be a radical reinterpretation of the mythos, not least inflicting a "blasphemous" turning inside-out of Merlin, or what had come to be the popular modern idea of Merlin: I like to think it a return to the authentic mediaeval figure; or even what lay behind that.

The chief goals of The Synopsis are thus to put the familiar main narrative on a renewed footing and render it coherent; and to re-motivate the familiar main characters to render consistent and justified their actions. The Synopsis also serves to cite the sources used, show how these have been re-handled in drawing upon them, while suggesting a palimpsest-like summa of the Insular tradition of lore. Main text and footnotes have been designed to make a stylized literary whole: their scholarship, though grounded in extensive research in the sources, rather than being intended strictly academically, has been fictionalized and re-shaped towards serving the projected poem’s mythopœic purpose.

There was a second question troubling me as a callow youth: Could Old English and Old Norse metres and verse-styles be recreated successfully in Modern English?

The poem itself does not aim straightforwardly to narrate, or “set to verse”, the reconstructed narrative set forth in the prose Synopsis. A narrative poem should not be a novel in verse, like prose rhymed-up: the whole presentation must be governed by inherently poetic concepts. But this is Philological poetry: The Synopsis supplies the background to the poem after the manner (if playfully) of exgetical appendices to an edition of 'Beowulf'.

I should also note that there has been much reshuffling and renewing in working-titles since these first publications from the work-in-progress.

RG

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