Re:Hugging a Medieval Book
by VLM on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @05:52PM
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I assume you're looking for something more HN oriented, book review-like, than what google would trivially provide.
Also very few people will read the original, and will go with modern english translations, donno if you'd consider that cheating. And I'm guessing you're limiting to western europe because thats what the linked story did.
Beowulf is just cool. Here's a thousand year old D+D campaign waiting to be played. I'm sure someone has RPG'd it up in the last 40 years or so.
The Sagas are interesting, same argument see above.
Nibelungenlied is kinda cool. Ditto as above.
The divine comedy is just weird. Maybe you could make a MUD/MUSH out of it or an artists interpretation in Minecraft for Halloween.
You can troll people with Petrarch, many say he's the first Renaissance dude so he doesn't count. Well, just don't tell those people, then they can't harass you. If you really want to piss them off try "ah, plutarch, petrarch, whats the difference anyway". (Plutarch is Awesome to read but he's about 400 years too old for your cutoff) Anyway his mountain climbing story will be the weirdest travelogue you'll ever read, and some people find "weird" to be aesthetically appealing. There are English translations on the net for free. See something "weird" like fear and loathing in las vegas can be explained away by drug use, but petrarch's story has no excuse making it weirder.
Also very few people will read the original, and will go with modern english translations, donno if you'd consider that cheating. And I'm guessing you're limiting to western europe because thats what the linked story did.
Beowulf is just cool. Here's a thousand year old D+D campaign waiting to be played. I'm sure someone has RPG'd it up in the last 40 years or so.
The Sagas are interesting, same argument see above.
Nibelungenlied is kinda cool. Ditto as above.
The divine comedy is just weird. Maybe you could make a MUD/MUSH out of it or an artists interpretation in Minecraft for Halloween.
You can troll people with Petrarch, many say he's the first Renaissance dude so he doesn't count. Well, just don't tell those people, then they can't harass you. If you really want to piss them off try "ah, plutarch, petrarch, whats the difference anyway". (Plutarch is Awesome to read but he's about 400 years too old for your cutoff) Anyway his mountain climbing story will be the weirdest travelogue you'll ever read, and some people find "weird" to be aesthetically appealing. There are English translations on the net for free. See something "weird" like fear and loathing in las vegas can be explained away by drug use, but petrarch's story has no excuse making it weirder.