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The Insular Cycle (sometimes called the Brythonic or Bardic Cycle) is the accumulated works of numerous professional court bards in Brythain, Cumbria, and Amorica. Although only high medieval manuscripts remain (circa 1100), linguistic evidence shows that a number date as far back as the seventh and sixth century, and one in particular (the Lament of Kamlann) claims to be composed shortly after the death of Arthur Maûr (Arthur the Great; Arthur I Pendraig Auriadh)

The roughly speaking, two thirds of the poems in the cycle are writen in the verse in the Brythonic Bardic Style, a sixth are prose, and a sixth in the englisc Scoptic style.

The poems come from several different manuscripts, although modern translators tend to publish them together.

The englisc poems are especially intriguing to Norse and Anglisc scholars, as they contain poems that the Codex Eboraci does not contain, such as the tragedy of baeldaeg, related to the norse god baldur.
 
So I'd like to get something off my chest.

At the moment, I feel this thread has run its course; there's been a good amount of world building that has fleshed out this corner of the globe for me, and what comes next is actually writing the story that goes in it. That will take time, and deserves its own thread once im ready to start posting it.

In the mean time however, this big ole brainstorm of a thread has spawned an idea that ought to be explored in its own right, even though it plays little role in the main story i want to write: the Codex Eboraci.

So while this thread takes an indeterminate/intermittent hiatus, I'll start up a new one.
 
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