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WOW! Ergatve, that is quite an introduction. I have been lurking, (and practicing/learning) since the inception of this forum, and do not feel ready yet for my debut. I would say your certainly have your legs, er fingers under you. Very nice.

 

All the posters here inspire me.

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Ergative,

 

Welcome to the playground! Very happy to have you and your beautiful calligraphy join us.

 

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Okay. Here's mine. Done free hand. No guidelines.

 

 

 

Pen: Shawn Newton Bamboo Eastman fitted with a stock Bock steel 1.5 mm calligraphy nib.

Ink: Sheaffer Blue-Black

Paper: Rhodia

 

David

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Ergative, and everybody else for that matter, as I'm a little sporadic in posting and even more so in giving dues... beautiful writing, inspirational.

 

Back to the less lofty aspirants... I think it's my shout for a quote?

 

I hope so, because here it is. Apologies for the ink, it's a cartridge from Manuscript that was supposed to be purple, that I hurriedly loaded up my new Manuscript Cursive Master with on the way out this morning. I'm afraid I don't live up to the grand name of my pen, and the colour doesn't live up to my quote...

 

Anyway, bit of fun for those that fancy a challenge, and I'll put up the transliteration and English later, unless someone gets there first...! Along with prizes for getting the quote and the inspiration for the script (the first letter should be a bit of a hint!)!

 

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Btw, this time I can say that most of the inconsistencies are intended (!) as I was trying to stay as close to my source material as possible... but the slight gradual increase in size in the counters and bowls in the last couple of lines was not intentional.

 

 

Hi, I'm Mat


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Actually, on my screen the colour isn't too bad... in real life it's kind of a violent magenta!

Hi, I'm Mat


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MercianScribe, if I read your coy hints properly* and my Googlefu has not misled me, then I absolutely approve and agree with your quote and inspiration, and I salute you for the choice.

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Sorry chaps/chappesses,

 

took me longer to get back to the thread than I'd intended, and in the end just to provide a rather hasty addendum to be marked 'must try harder'... :blush:

 

You got it Ergative, well spotted! :D

 

The first one I put up was my attempt at copying one of the original copies of Beowulf extant, blemishes and variations and all. I'm quite pleased at how it came out, with a couple of exceptions. It may or may not be contemporary to the quote, which is from the Battle of Maldon. To the modern eye, I think the flat headed g's and descending r's are the hardest to work out, as many people have some knowledge of the long s's, and the eth and thorn. Incidentally, if anyone wants to make up a copybook from the Beowulf manuscript, http://robert-pfeffer.net/schriftarten/englisch/nachgeladener_rahmen.html?pfeffer_mediaeval.html has a wonderful free late Anglos-Saxon insular Carolingian font with historical and contextual alternates, which makes for some nice variations on standard Johnston-esque modern English foundational roundhand. The gospel text (forget its name) that inspired Johnston is also not far off the date of that Beowulf manuscript, as you probably know.

 

'Sc' is a modern 'sh', so that's how we get 'shall' from 'sceal'. 'Sceal' is not an auxiliary verb, though, so it doesn't need a verb to supplement it, like modern English 'shall be'. Modern Norwegian (and Danish maybe) have both uses, so 'skal' can mean 'shall' or 'shall be', and can be used with another verb or not. The 'a' in 'mare' is pronounced like 'oor' as opposed to the 'a' which is like 'ar', and the 'æ', which is as in 'cat'. Clear as mud, right?!

 

Out of linguistic interest, there are couple of points. 'Hige' presents a translation problem, as it has many meanings from thought to memory to desire to intent, but thought is the most common. It is usually spelt 'hyge' and pronounced possibly more like 'Hugh', the name, which was originally the same. The 'g' is often a soft 'ye' where the 'e' is a schwa in Old English. Othinn/Woden's raven, Huginn, has the same name. 'Mod', which has a long 'o' like 'mood' means... er... 'mood', but also can be translated pretty much the same as 'hige'. Christians liked to interpret 'mood' as arrogance, and the whole of the Battle of Maldon revolves around the leader's hubris, or 'overmood', and I often think overconfidence is a better concept. 'Mood' seems to be used among Anglo-Saxons as a quality, and as such, strongly culturally opposed by the Christians.

 

I ramble!

 

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Okay, next batch of three! Sorry the rotation isn't working properly. I've fixed it on photobucket, I thought, but for some reason it's not fixed here.

 

Week 11:
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f320/philena_lj/wk11.jpg

 

Week 12:

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f320/philena_lj/wk12.jpg

 

Week 13:

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f320/philena_lj/wk13.jpg

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Ergative, you are contributing such elegant and faithful renditions. Thank you. This version of Mercian's prompt relies on your translation research. Brause ef66 with walnut crystal ink.

 

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@Ergative, welcome to the FPN! Glorious art work and excellent calligraphy. The Brause nibs work much better with a Foundational hand, the Mitchell are great for Italic, as you say. I am eagerly awaiting your next posts.

 

@Bobje, You are getting the swing of that Brause 66ef nib, looks elegant. Having fun!

 

Paper is a Clairemont notebook, pens are Lamy 2000, B into 1.1mm, and TWSBI 580, B into 1.1 mm. Inks are Noodler's Black and Montblanc Oyster Grey.

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I am so behind on these. This is the last one that I did before I had to focus my attention elsewhere. Hope to catch up soon, although I still have no power at my house, and I have procrastinated doing my calligraphy homework again this month and it's due this weekend, so who knows when "soon" will be? :)

 

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To all, wonderful, wonderful writing. A real joy to follow. My favorite thread at this forum, so thank you. I have been following along, but alas, am an Apple user with more than two thumbs and have not figured out how to post pictures. Please keep up the marvelous writing.

 

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My apologies. Clarification.

 

​"Creativity is not dead. etc". Was not a submission for writing. I would not have been so presumptuous. It was intended as a compliment. Again, my apologies.

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Don't worry. Although it would make a nice quote to practice ;)

the cat half awake

and half sleeping on the book

"Quantum Mechanics"

 

(inspired by a German haiku by Tony Böhle)

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I have been following along, but alas, am an Apple user with more than two thumbs and have not figured out how to post pictures.

 

I am another lurker just enjoying both the quotations themselves and the beautiful and varied renditions of them. But I can perhaps at least share how to post a picture. :)

 

Scroll to the menu bar just below the main FPN header at the top of the page, and click "Upload". Click "choose file" to find a picture that's on your computer, and "Add image". Once you've uploaded your photo, you should see three strings of code that look like urls; copy the centre one (the BBCode), and paste it into your post here (or any other thread you want to add a photo to.

 

If you need more detail, there are instructions with screen shots here: https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/blog/2/entry-22-the-images-upload-tab-what-is-it-how-to-use-it/

 

Jenny

"To read without also writing is to sleep." - St. Jerome

 

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Pens: OMAS Ogiva with BB nib ground to cursive italic. Pelikan M101N with gold plated steel M nib ground to CI.

Inks: OMAS Black. Pelikan Brilliant Black

Paper: Rhodia

 

David

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Pens: OMAS Ogiva with BB nib ground to cursive italic. Pelikan M101N with gold plated steel M nib ground to CI.

Inks: OMAS Black. Pelikan Brilliant Black

Paper: Rhodia

 

David

Very nice David..

Sagar Bhowmick

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I am so behind on these. This is the last one that I did before I had to focus my attention elsewhere. Hope to catch up soon, although I still have no power at my house, and I have procrastinated doing my calligraphy homework again this month and it's due this weekend, so who knows when "soon" will be? :)

 

34861733841_13837e2144_z.jpgFPN QOTW #16 by Dawn, on Flickr

Beautiful job, Dawn!

Brad

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind" - Rudyard Kipling
"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try." - Mark Twain

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