
Medieval emotions: were they like our own?
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Is the Very Word Celtic Problematic?
The use of the word saga m is a deliberate thing on my part. Most of these tales don't, in fact, have any mythological component. They're simply mediaeval literature set in a prehistoric pastad. I very much compare them to the marble synomatic universe. It's a shared cast of characters and a kind of shared story world. But a different author can come along at a different time and write their own story using these characters. And i would say there is the full gamut of literary, a er experience and literary brilliance in the corpus of literature that survives.
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