(partial; verses recorded by artists Týr w/ translation).
E-texted the Welsh text of the "Thirteen Hallows" given in Charlotte Guest's notes to Mabinogi tale of Kilhwfch and Owain, side by side with her English rendition.
Anthology of Japanese Poetry
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J. Poets - roster of modern poets and their works.
Elegies - A sampling of melancholic verses from Japanese literature, old and new.
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Walt Whitman's A Broadway Pageant
The poem was originally written in 1860 when Whitman witnessed the samurai emissaries
parading the streets of New York (the poem originally entitled "The Errand-Bearers" ran in the NY Times. The envoys from the Shogunate were carried across the
Pacific on US gunboats and on a vessel named Kanrin-maru.
Ogden Nash on Japanese immigrants
A sharp spoof in which the poet expressed anti-immigration sentiment in the hearts of
many Californians. (plus: a Nash-Weill song from the musical One Touch of Venus).
e.e. cummings' poem on nipponized steel
His epigrammatic on the follies or horrors of war.
J.R.R. Tolkien
The map was drawn by Christopher Tolkien based on a drawing made by his father.
Alice in Wonderland
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The famous nonsense poem has been construed in a myriad different ways:
the key to understanding the poem comes from Lewis Carroll's own expounding on the terms,
Humpty Dumpty's explanation to Alice, and Martin Gardner's notes from The Annotated Alice.
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is a poem that's written in the shape of a sinuous mouse-tail. Here is my mark-up version
using style sheet(css). In several languages.
Ogden Nash's nonsense poem
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Lost & Found Chest 
, armor 
, items 
, from medieval literature, and fantasy fiction.
Click banner below for itinerary and venues (Can here sample clips, and The Faroese group TYR I think is doing a rendition of Nornagests rímur).
Franks Casket Runes: Explained
(06.06.08) is now available online.
Faroese Ballads Index
Nibelungen clickable map
