Bitching about Medieval Literature

Bitching about Medieval Literature

Podcast de Gwen verch David

Bitching about Medieval Literature is a podcast that reads medieval literature in translation with accompanying commentary, complaints, explanatory notes, and, well...bitching. In season 1, we read The Decameron, a 14th century Italian story collection set during the Black Death. In season 2, we read a collection of 12th-14th century Welsh stories that draw on folklore, Arthuriana, and Celtic mythology. There's also bonus episodes!

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episode Bro! artwork
Bro!

To wrap up the podcast, this episode celebrates the wonderful work of translators, in particular, the wonderful work of Maria Devana Headley in 'Beowulf: A New Translation'. With a mixture of poetry extracts and prose summaries, we tell the story of Beowulf, AND nerd out about translation, all in under an hour. WARNINGS: Some gore in the various monster fights

22 jul 2021 - 49 min
episode The Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi, Part 2: The Women Deserve Better (Again) artwork
The Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi, Part 2: The Women Deserve Better (Again)

The final episode of the Mabinogion has everything: curses, magical disguises, trickery, women made out of flowers, secret love affairs, betrayal, poetry, hero children, shoemaking, riddles, gory revenge, and of course, misogyny. Join us, for the second last time, as we wrap up the Fourth Branch. WARNINGS: A woman is publically asked to undergo a magical virginity check, which reveals she is not a virgin by causing her to instantly 'drop' a healthy baby and a 'small something'.

15 jul 2021 - 41 min
episode The Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi, Part 1: The King's Footholder artwork
The Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi, Part 1: The King's Footholder

This week, we have the first half of the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi, in which we meet the ruling family of Gwynedd, in the north. One of the king's nephews is wasting away for love of the king's footholder (no, literally, that's her job), so the king's OTHER nephew starts a war to get the king out of town. When the king comes back and uncovers the whole story, he demonstrates why you shouldn't piss off magic users and assault their household. WARNINGS: Rape. The plot of this episode revolves around making it possible for one character to rape the woman he has been lusting over. This is directly discussed in timestamp 11:25-11:54 and timestamp 16:29-17:18. There is a fairly fucked up punishment for the two brothers involved in plotting the assault: they are transformed into a series of animals and enchanted so that they breed with each other for three years in a row.

08 jul 2021 - 28 min
episode The Third Branch of the Mabinogi: You're so WEIRD, Manawydan artwork
The Third Branch of the Mabinogi: You're so WEIRD, Manawydan

Pryderi and his wife are hanging out with Rhiannon and her second husband, Manawydan, when suddenly all the people, domesticated animals, and signs of civilisation disappear from Dyfed. They proceed to do not very much about it for several years, until Manawydan gets cranky about his wheat disappearing and decides to take revenge on a mouse. WARNING: Animal cruelty. Protagonist intends to (but does not actually) hang a mouse. Like, from a mini-gallows.

01 jul 2021 - 38 min
episode The Second Branch of the Mabinogi: What the f*ck, Efnysien artwork
The Second Branch of the Mabinogi: What the f*ck, Efnysien

In this story, the king of Ireland comes to visit the king of Britain to ask for his sister's hand in marriage. This would have been fine, except the king's half-brother Efnysien exists. There's no happy ending for this one - by the end of the story, almost all of the named characters are dead. WARNINGS. Animal cruelty: A character maims a large number of horses - I give verbal warning before this happens. Horrifying execution methods: in a story told by Matholowch, a group of people are trapped in an iron house which is heated up around them - only two escape. Domestic-ish violence: a king decides to punish his wife for the past actions of her family by making her work in the kitchens and get hit by a butcher every day. Graphically described gore: A character kills a bunch of hidden enemies by crushing their skulls with his bare hands - I give verbal warning before this happens. Murder of a child: A character throws his young nephew into a fire, shocking and distressing literally everyone - I give verbal warning before this happens.

24 jun 2021 - 44 min
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