I just kept flashing back to the similar scene in the Austin Powers movie and it made me giggle.
I was hoping for a sausage :D
what you (and by extension they) do?
What do I do? It's kind of one of those questions where I know the answer until someone asks me :D
I'm a medievalist, and my area of concentration is Old English literature, so the language as it was written from around 600-1066 (with bleedover into the late twelfth century), with related interests in Latin. (If you want to do anything medieval, even just concentrating on a vernacular like Old English, Middle High German, Old French &c., you have to be fairly conversant with Latin stuff.) People sharing my particular brand of madness spend a lot of time translating (like Beowulf (http://www8.georgetown.edu/departments/medieval/labyrinth/library/oe/texts/a4.1.html), for instance), working with manuscripts, and trying to find out more about the literary traditions of the period, the various relationships different texts have to each other, how ideas were transmitted, that sort of thing.
When it comes to medieval movies, mostly we bitch and complain about how awful they are :D
Re: Beowulf
I was hoping for a sausage :D
what you (and by extension they) do?
What do I do? It's kind of one of those questions where I know the answer until someone asks me :D
I'm a medievalist, and my area of concentration is Old English literature, so the language as it was written from around 600-1066 (with bleedover into the late twelfth century), with related interests in Latin. (If you want to do anything medieval, even just concentrating on a vernacular like Old English, Middle High German, Old French &c., you have to be fairly conversant with Latin stuff.) People sharing my particular brand of madness spend a lot of time translating (like Beowulf (http://www8.georgetown.edu/departments/medieval/labyrinth/library/oe/texts/a4.1.html), for instance), working with manuscripts, and trying to find out more about the literary traditions of the period, the various relationships different texts have to each other, how ideas were transmitted, that sort of thing.
When it comes to medieval movies, mostly we bitch and complain about how awful they are :D