minstrel: RE: More Of That Norse Stuff...

[Mike Baker]

Mikal:

Having seen Tangwystl's commentary, I think I may have pegged what made it 
dificult for me to offer constructive criticism of "THE SONG OF MANY 
SAILINGS":  the form is tantalizingly almost-familiar, and I don't know what 
to make comparisons to.

I feel that I identified one critical component of the format, the 
(near-)repetition of the last half of the first line in each stanza in the 
first half of the last line, that Tangwystl did not appear to register.  The 
three-stanzas-and-chorus flow that appears in the early portion does not 
continue throughout, so I am not sure about the context for making any 
comments based upon the recurring "return from battle / get back home *if*" 
structure...

I must agree that I would probably understand the whole better to hear at 
least a portion recited / chanted / sung. Probably *have* heard the form 
somewhere along the way, and it just isn't registering. (Heck, I've written 
things twice as long as this and at least as blood-dreched without any 
particular attention to a known, traditional, structure -- and been told 
later that I had created a fine example of an old style. To quote the 
Warners: "Go fig")

Kihe Blackeagle (the Dreamsinger Bard)  s.k.a. Amr ibn Majid al-Bakri 
al-Amra
     currently residing in Barony of the Steppes, Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mike C. Baker                      mbaker at rapp.com
Any opinions expressed are obviously my own unless explicitly stated 
otherwise! 
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