1. Dear Sir, I am obliged by your letter of yesterday's date, and hasten to send you, as requested, the complete dossier of documents.The Documents in the Case; Dorothy L Sayers and Robert Eustace;
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
asklepia2. We turned our horses and rode into that terrible dark wood - the Lady Morgan le Fay, myself, her fifteen-year-old niece, and the four silent serving-men that followed us.
The Three Damosels; Vera Chapman
3. Two of the myriad of London's night-workers were walking down Fleet Street soon after dawn on Sunday morning, 2nd September.The Invasion of 1910; William le Queux;
wemyss4. On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays it was Court Hand and Summulae Logicales, while the rest of the week it was the Organon, Repetition and Astrology.The Sword in the Stone; TH White;
tree_and_leaf5. It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips.The Jungle Book; Rudyard Kipling;
wemyss6. Cedric himself knew nothing whatever about it.Little Lord Fauntleroy; Mrs FH Burnett;
asklepia7. No defence is usually offered for translating Beowulf.Prefatory Remarks on Prose Translation of "Beowulf"; JRR Tolkien;
asklepia8. There was a man named Ketill
flatnefr (Flat-Nose), who was a son of Bjorn
buna.
Laxdaela Saga; Anonymous
9. "We should start back," Gared urged as the woods began to grow dark around them.A Game of Thrones; George RR Martin;
evilmissbecky10. One fine morning in the full London season, Major Arthur [X] came over from his lodgings, according to his custom, to breakfast at a certain Club in Pall Mall, of which he was a chief ornament.Pendennis; WM Thackeray;
arda_unmarred![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wellinghall
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2010-06-12 09:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-13 07:21 am (UTC)Ah.
Date: 2010-06-12 09:43 pm (UTC)Re: Ah.
Date: 2010-06-13 07:22 am (UTC)Can't do it.
Date: 2010-06-13 02:09 pm (UTC)Re: Can't do it.
Date: 2010-06-13 04:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-12 09:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-13 07:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-12 10:19 pm (UTC)6. Something by Wodehouse
7. I think this is Tolkien, but not The Monsters and the Critics
8. Oh dear, I am really not up on my sagas. Egills Saga?
10. Something by Saki.
I give up!
no subject
Date: 2010-06-13 07:23 am (UTC)I am very, very disappointed in you,
no subject
Date: 2010-06-13 04:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-13 04:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-12 10:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-13 07:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-13 07:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-13 08:23 am (UTC)7. "On Translating Beowulf" by JRR Tolkien (appears in the same collection as "Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics")
Further guesses will be made as I scour my library.
no subject
Date: 2010-06-13 08:24 am (UTC)And how are you? It seems like ages since we've been in touch.
no subject
Date: 2010-06-13 08:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-13 08:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-13 08:39 am (UTC)(Edited for complete vocabulary fail)
no subject
Date: 2010-06-13 04:49 pm (UTC)... which I hadn't spotted!
no subject
Date: 2010-06-13 08:29 am (UTC)8. "Eyrbyggja Saga" (though I obviously have a different translation).
no subject
Date: 2010-06-13 08:34 am (UTC)1 yes, 8 no; it's a different saga. Clearly, though, translations will differ.
no subject
Date: 2010-06-13 09:55 am (UTC)"There was a great war-chief in Norway named Ketil Flatnef (Flat-Nose); he was the son of Björn Buna, the son of war-chief Grím from Sogn. Ketil was married; his wife was Yngvild, the daughter of Ketil Veðr, a war-chief in Romerike. Their sons were named Björn and Helgi, and their daughters were Auð-Djupauðga (Deeply-Wealthy), Thórunn Hyrna and Jórunn Mannvitsbrekka (Wisdom-Slope). Ketil's son, Björn, was fostered in the East in Jämtland by an earl named Kjallak, a wise and good man. Earl Kjallak had a son who was also named Björn, and a daughter named Gjaflaug."
The saga eventually features Snorri Goði and ends with a listing of his descendants.
no subject
Date: 2010-06-13 10:07 am (UTC)"There was a man named Ketill Flatnefr (Flat-Nose), who was the son of Bjorn buna. Ketill was a powerful and well-born warchief in Norway; he lived in Romsdal, in Romsdal province, which lies between Sunnmore and Nordmore."
I say it's distinctly unfair to have two different books about the same people with almost identical first lines. if I were Dr Who I would go back and have words with those bards.
no subject
Date: 2010-06-13 02:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-14 10:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-15 07:46 am (UTC)