Original alliterative verse epic in Old English metre revived in Modern English: Winter Solstice, from alliterative Arthuriad-in-progress, ‘Albion Tetralogy, II. Interlude: The Island of the Mighty’. (original) (raw)

2021, Arthuriad: Synopsis and Excerpts

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.