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

An explanation of how the challenges in translating a fourteenth Middle English text into modern English are overcome.

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...