tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4051493078314023645.post3417681454320537724..comments2017-03-11T15:21:49.481-08:00Comments on ENEADOS: Fame, honour, praisingBecca McCallumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09339982441409936532noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4051493078314023645.post-4562746786512691912017-03-11T15:21:49.481-08:002017-03-11T15:21:49.481-08:00Thanks! I figured this was going to be pretty text...Thanks! I figured this was going to be pretty text-heavy so I went with something that seemed easy to read.Becca McCallumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09339982441409936532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4051493078314023645.post-68494258175966891172017-03-08T17:40:16.917-08:002017-03-08T17:40:16.917-08:00Cool! I love Virgil, and poetry, and so this is aw...Cool! I love Virgil, and poetry, and so this is awesome! Nice place, btw. ;)Belle Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14885179909028676771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4051493078314023645.post-9754406127958680202017-02-18T11:48:45.540-08:002017-02-18T11:48:45.540-08:00Thank you so much for your comments! RE rungis/run...Thank you so much for your comments! RE rungis/rung is - yes, the present tense probably IS the correct one; what I want to do is have a look at a proper printed copy (I know there's an 1806 edition a nearby museum) and see what that says. But it's probably been printed and misprinted so many times that who can say what the 'correct' answer is - but I would like to make a note of that so I shall edit this post (when I have time!) to reflect that.<br /><br />The juxtaposition of the scholarly and the mundane is what makes the prologues so interesting to me. I love words, and so finding out stuff like the 'a per se' makes me really pleased, but I also like what it GD's language tells us about the world around him. RE your thoughts on 'glory' - yes! I suppose we have 'crowning glory' to mean hair, so maybe that's a remnant of the older sense. Anyway, lovely to hear your thoughts - thanks again. :)Becca McCallumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09339982441409936532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4051493078314023645.post-71088145949937531332017-02-17T05:01:11.123-08:002017-02-17T05:01:11.123-08:00But once again - great blog! Much to think about a...But once again - great blog! Much to think about and looking forward very much to seeing more. Stitchillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17551694260570045741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4051493078314023645.post-29258083315290793182017-02-17T04:57:23.675-08:002017-02-17T04:57:23.675-08:00I like GD’s excited mixture of bookishness and rea...I like GD’s excited mixture of bookishness and real world sense of actual observable universe. Likes of, his inclusion of 'regester' among the lists of concrete attributes in line 6 (as in listing, roster, schedule, inventory, calendar) - there's something kind of Scottish about that. <br /><br />I wonder too if 'glory' in that same line might also have been some concrete noun in a sense now lost - such as 'crowning jewel' maybe? Sometimes hard to tell how open to interpretation the older Scots is.Stitchillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17551694260570045741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4051493078314023645.post-20832305426041409182017-02-17T04:34:57.087-08:002017-02-17T04:34:57.087-08:00I see in other sources, the verb in the line also ...I see in other sources, the verb in the line also appears (probably more reliably) in the present tense form: <br /><br />Wide whare ower all ringis thine heivenly bell<br /><br />I think I prefer the effect of the past tense, even if it is more likely to be based on a misreading. <br /><br />Doubtless my mind would change on another day : ) <br />Stitchillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17551694260570045741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4051493078314023645.post-21016318103386506222017-02-17T04:30:40.652-08:002017-02-17T04:30:40.652-08:00Thanks for this Becca. This is a fantastic idea fo...Thanks for this Becca. This is a fantastic idea for a blog.<br /><br />feilabill (feelable):- touchable, tactile, tangible, perceptible, sensible, discernible, appreciable, palpable – all carried in that simple Scots form<br /><br />My favourite line from the passage is<br /><br />Wide quhare owre all rung is thine heivenly bell;<br /><br />This, plus ‘feelable’, plus ‘as wha the maitter held tofore thair ee’, etc, makes it philosophical indeed; not just observation, but a full sense of connection, being a small part of the whole, someone who knows what it is like seeing the Pentlands, Fife, the Forth, the North Sea, the distant fringes of the Highlands and the city below with its castle and crown of St Giles, all under the sky from the top of Arthur’s Seat.Stitchillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17551694260570045741noreply@blogger.com