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My translation of Nezawalkoyotl's famous poem "Not Forever on Earth" (mid-1400's). There were no uncopyrighted English translations of this poem, so I thought I would create one that is free for anyone to use (I am a linguist, this is not an AI translation. It is also my own voice, not AI narration)

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u/cserilaz — 17 days ago
▲ 73 r/BiharBookClub+1 crossposts

"An Account of My Hut" written by the Japanese Buddhist hermit Kamo no Chōmei in 1212 AD after living five years with minimal possessions in a mobile hut built on a wagon frame. Narrated by me :)

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u/cserilaz — 25 days ago
▲ 43 r/BiharBookClub+6 crossposts

Plutarch's "On the Face Which Appears on the Orb of the Moon," the record of the conversation held between several astronomers on the occasion of the solar eclipse that was visible from Carthage in 75 AD

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u/cserilaz — 21 days ago
▲ 14 r/heathenry+1 crossposts

"The Lady Gets to Let Loose for Her Man," a poem about a woman on her wedding night. Last one for July. Thanks to all who have been following this series of Younger Futhark love letters and love poems on my YouTube channel this month

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u/cserilaz — 3 months ago
▲ 8 r/oldnorse+1 crossposts

"Rolf Þorgisson Carved This," a token with Younger Futhark on it found in a wishing well in Lund, probably a repurposed game-piece (like a checker). Full breakdown in description of video on YouTube

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u/cserilaz — 3 months ago
▲ 21 r/heathenry

"Hávarðr Sends His Winship and God's Greeting," a stick with a marriage proposal written out in Younger Futhark. But with parts shaved off (how they erased back then). Perhaps he was practicing what he was going to say and was nervous?

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u/cserilaz — 3 months ago
▲ 2 r/NorsePaganism

This runic poem is evidence of erotic roleplay in medieval Norway: see the video's description for the full explanation, but basically the carver of this stick and his lover seem to have enjoyed reenacting a particular scene from Ovid's Metamorphoses

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u/cserilaz — 3 months ago
▲ 13 r/heathenry

A skaldic poem about marrying a woman who is "óœll," or "do-not-feed." The poet seems to imply that the do-not-feed woman was more faithful to him than a higher class woman would have been. He was probably pretty well-off himself if he could afford to use whalebone as the medium for the piece

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u/cserilaz — 3 months ago
▲ 229 r/oldnorse+7 crossposts

"I Fell for the Devastatingly Fair Maiden Early On," a skaldic love poem from thirteenth-century Norway, written in Younger Fuþark

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u/cserilaz — 3 months ago
▲ 109 r/oldnorse+7 crossposts

"Gunnhild, Kiss Me" - a love letter from Norway ca. 1200, inscribed on a stick in runes

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u/cserilaz — 3 months ago