Some Help With Our Anglo-Saxon Challenge: From the Nameless Isle by C. S. Lewis

Here’s an excerpt from C. S. Lewis’ poem ‘From the Nameless Isle.’ I believe this is an early effort, but it demonstrates, with admirable aplomb, the modernized Anglo-Saxon verse style that we are attempting. Read aloud for best effect, and with the speech rhythms of daily speech, except that you should stress slightly more than normally the stressed syllables, pause a bit longer than you usually would at the ceasura, and give the heavy, or long, syllables their full weight, or length. My excerpt begins just after a castaway from… Read more Some Help With Our Anglo-Saxon Challenge: From the Nameless Isle by C. S. Lewis →