{"id":200,"date":"2007-01-30T09:42:39","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T16:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/30\/the-ruin-old-english-film\/"},"modified":"2020-10-09T06:38:52","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T13:38:52","slug":"the-ruin-old-english-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/the-ruin-old-english-film\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Ruin&#8221; (Old English) film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this short film in a blog by an Anglo-Saxon scholar, the <a href=\"http:\/\/unlocked-wordhoard.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Unlocked Wordhoard<\/a>.  It&#8217;s a 6-minute adaptation of an Old English elegiac poem, &#8220;The Ruin,&#8221; done by some students at the University of Oxford.  I hadn&#8217;t read the poem before (Old English and modern English text <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.kenyon.edu\/AngloSaxonRiddles\/Ruin.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>), but it&#8217;s hauntingly beautiful.  The film is done in Old English with modern English subtitles, and the language is beautiful too.  Maybe someday I&#8217;ll learn it.  But that day may be a ways away.  Anyway.  My favorite thing about the film is how it applies the poem&#8217;s description of a ruined Anglo-Saxon mead-hall to an early industrial-age cement factory&#8230;good literature resonates throughout the ages, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/fcIZrlid5UE\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this short film in a blog by an Anglo-Saxon scholar, the Unlocked Wordhoard. It&#8217;s a 6-minute adaptation of an Old English elegiac poem, &#8220;The Ruin,&#8221; done by some students at the University of Oxford. I hadn&#8217;t read the poem before (Old English and modern English text here), but it&#8217;s hauntingly beautiful. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,2],"tags":[80,79,9],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36946,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/patior-pati-passus-sum\/","url_meta":{"origin":200,"position":0},"title":"Patior, pati, passus sum","author":"Jandy","date":"March 30, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"My Latin teacher's favorite Latin word is patior, pati, passus sum - these are the three principle parts of the verb \"to suffer\". The present active participle is patiens\/patientis, from which we get the English word \"patience.\" From the perfect passive participle passus, we get our word \"passion\". I thought\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Elsewhere&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Elsewhere","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/category\/elsewhere\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4002,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/review-tamara-drewe\/","url_meta":{"origin":200,"position":1},"title":"Review: Tamara Drewe","author":"Jandy","date":"October 10, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"[Rating:2.5\/5] Sometimes I'm not sure what's worse - a film that is just bad through and through and can be dismissed as a total misfire on all cylinders, or one that has a lot of potential and good ideas that are completely squandered in the final product. 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