Mythical Britain is the home of Michael Smith - author, printmaker, translator and performer of medieval romances

An explanation of the translation approach undertaken to create the first ever alliterative edition of William of Palerne in modern English.

How a fourteenth-century alliterative romance has come alive once more, richly illustrated with linocut prints.

I have been working for some time on a new translation of William of Palerne , which Madden in the nineteenth century called the “romance...