Monday, January 31st, 2022

2022/13: The Wake -- Paul Kingsnorth
i is cum from the mere i specs for the wilde for the eald gods under the blaec waters in the drencced treows. i is the lands law ofer mens i is eorth not heofon leaf of treow not leaf of boc [loc. 3559]

Set in the years of the Norman conquest, this is the story of Buccmaster of Holland, a freedom fighter (or terrorist) in what is now Lincolnshire. It's written in an invented language intended to have the 'feel' of Old English.

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