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The Three Dead Kings: Part 5 Then up speaks the hindmost king – staring off at the hills – Holding his head in his quivering fists. It’s as if a well-stropped knife has stilled His heart, like a slaughtered cow’s. He frets: “These three are demons: each one could kill Us here in the woods. Help us, God, who somehow fits Us into the world! I quiver like a flag, spill My silver. My fingers clench. I lose my wits, And fear terribly for our fate: I think that we should flee, and fast; The only counsel's not to wait - Fortune’s got us on a plate! The devils have us! The die is cast!” Fifteenth century Middle English alliterative poem ‘De Tribus Regibus Mortuis’, attributed to John Audelay, translated by Giles Watson. Here, the Middle English text plays on the word “knoc”, which can mean a blow, a shock, or a death knell. The next line compares the shock of seeing the ghosts with the slaughtering of cattle. The reference to a “flag” is, of course, an allusion to the yellow flag iris, which grows in ditches and ponds, and quivers in the wind. It is sometimes translated “reed”, but this loses the implication of stately grandeur surrendered to fear. The picture shows detail from a wall-painting depicting The Three Living and the Three Dead, from Widford Church, near Burford, in the Cotswolds. A reading is available here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P0vM-zln_o" rel="nofollow">www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P0vM-zln_o</a> ... and whole poem, with critical notes, is here: <a href="http://gileswatson.deviantart.com/#/d52qz9y" rel="nofollow">gileswatson.deviantart.com/#/d52qz9y</a> |
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| Author | Giles Watson from Oxfordshire, England |
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