Let alone being aware of their mythical significances, which personally I'd
need to check, though for what it's worth I can manage the pronunciation.
But I've always thought Graves was a shocking show-off.
joanna
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From: "Roger Collett" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: Discuss.
> 99.999% of Americans and 70% of Brits can't even pronounce:
> Arianrhod, Blodeuwedd and the Old Sow of Maenawr Penardd
>
> Roger
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> Subject: Discuss.
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>
> "A woman who concerns herself with poetry should, I believe, either be a
> silent Muse and inspire the poets by her womanly presence, as Queen
> Elizabeth
> and the Countess of Derby did, or she should be the Muse in a complete
> sense: she should be in turn Arianrhod, Blodeuwedd and the Old Sow of
> Maenawr Penardd
> who eats her farrow, and should write in each of these capacities with
> antique
> authority. She should be the visible moon: impartial, loving, severe,
> wise."
>
> -- Robert Graves, The White Goddess
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