Sagas!

[pickettywitch]

So due to being quite bored at work (efficiency appears to come at the price of having nothing to do at the end of the week) I've been converting Beowulf into a saga that I can use at Outcast when I get to it

Comments

[albevan]

are you going to be ulidian

if you are i can give you bits of cool backgroundy stuff to turn into stories

lots of place for oral tradition with us lot

[pickettywitch]

I'm going to take Literacy and be composing the Great Record.
And Meg has been very persuasive about us being Ulidian.

I'm currently re-writing Beowulf with a Heroine called Morrigan ap Badb in the title role, rescuing the Wavesweeper Voch from Grendal and his kin.

[albevan]

awsome wavesweepers of mannanon/ lir would be awsom to be represented at the next one , it may be worth having links to the sons of ogmha (read the ulidian short story from the world book for the only mention of these as i suck)for the writing stuff. it would be really cool to focus on oral tradition stories as well.

am so full of outcast keen at the mo that it hurts

[pickettywitch]

I like the idea of actually being able to perform the shorter stories for people, you know like a bard would. I suspect I'll never be able to actually memorise all the poetry though so I'll always have a book.

[424850]

For some strange reason, I have tonnes of celtic legends, stories and stuff you're welcome to borrow sometime for inspiration - might be able to email over a load if you have a suitable addy?

[424850]

Probably the best resource I have is this CD: http://www.thehistoricalarchive.com/products/Celtic-Myth-Folklor-90.html which has lots on irish myths. You could order your own copy, or as i say, I can try to send a load over to you

[load_of_flannel]

Well for that kind of legend most of Wagner is good try and find a programme from an opera whihc will usually conveniently prasee the story!

Tristan and Isolde
Tanhauser
Lohengrin.
Flying Dutchman

MOst of teh ring cycle (which contains many different tales mostly already in the Nieblungenlied.)

Read Tom Holt 'expecting someone taller' if you can be arsed with the above, I think they are mostly covered in that.

[a_c_macklin]

It's a bit different, but there might be some useful stuff in the Song of Hiawatha. (It's enormous, though, so again probably worth breaking down).

[thewhitespider]

Archery is for cowards!

The arrow maker's daughter? What kind of a wife would she make?

[fuseblues]

One to be ashamed of. Oh the angst. The secret liason. The shame.

[thewhitespider]

If you're going with Ulidia, I'd read the Outcast worldbook section, and then pick out Irish mythology to base it on. The more Norse and European stuff might jar a little with the setting (since that's more two of the other nations) - or it might not. I dunno.

[pickettywitch]

So far so good I ahve alot of celtic myths too (and blessedly they tend to be a bit shorter :-S )
Children of Lir
the prince the fox and the sword of light (I'm not sure how celtic this noe is but it came up on my search and I rather liked the title)
The selkie
gawain and the green knight because I love that story.

:-)