Writing and Performance
I’m trying to put my various period writing and performance pieces into some sort of order. Following is a list of my period writing and performances. Starred entries mean that I have both written and performed them so they appear in both categories.
Writing
- *The Tale of Glam (adaptation into Norse poetry of a story from The Grettis Saga)
- *The Lonely Traveler (Anglo-Saxon poem about a legend from the Cheviot Hills)
- *The Wolf’s Story (a story of a werewolf in the style of The Ynglinga Saga)
- Selected Diary and Letters of Margaret Wynter (fictional diary entries and letters from a 15th century gentlewoman)
- In Honor of Amalric Blackhart and Caia Snowden (largesse for a King and Queen of An Tir)
- *There is a Fair Fort: In Memory of the Lords of Lyondemere (A poem honoring the Barons and Baronesses of Caid’s Lyondemere)
- *The Homecoming (a poem in honor of my household, Cliar cu Buidhe)
- Lament for the Great Heart: Sir Jamal Damien Marcus (Caid Crown Tourney fighter poem)
- The Knight of Eire Sails Far: Sir Killian Mac Taggart (Caid Crown Tourney fighter poem)
- *We Are the People of al-Sahid (a poem to honor my home Shire of al-Sahid in Caid)
- Sir Ragnar of Sandcastle (Caid Crown Tourney fighter poem)
- Crown Morning: The Honorable Lord Simon Montgumery (Caid Crown Tourney fighter poem)
Performance
- Voluspa (selections from “The Voluspa” from The Prose Edda)
- Merlin and Vortigern (story from Historia Brittonum)
- Arete and Heracles (a Hercules story illustrating the virtue of honor)
- Odysseus and the Sirens (spoken poetry and song from The Odyssey with the song set to a 15th century tune)
- Spectral Bridegroom (I adapted this famous traditional ghost story for performance)
- *The Wolf’s Story (a story of a werewolf in the style of The Ynglinga Saga)
- *The Tale of Glam (adaptation into Norse poetry of a story from The Grettis Saga)
- *The Lonely Traveler (Anglo-Saxon poem about a legend from the Cheviot Hills)
- *Arete and Herakles (a story from 5 BC illustrating the virtue of honor)
- *There is a Fair Fort: In Memory of the Lords of Lyondemere (A poem honoring the Barons and Baronesses of Caid’s Lyondemere)
- “The Lion of the Strand” (an original song about the Barony of Lyondemere)
- *We Are the People of al-Sahid (a poem to honor my home Shire of al-Sahid in Caid)
- *The Homecoming (a poem in honor of my household, Cliar cu Buidhe)
- “Since First I Saw Your Face” (a 16th century song of unrequited love)
- Arete and Herakles (a story from 5 BC illustrating the virtue of honor)
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