The rules of song and the rules of myth: playing with dragons and other mythohistorical archetypes (rules of the text 2)
George RR Martin titled A Song of Ice and Fire advisedly, I think, with reference to the bardic traditions of European culture that gave us also the Iliad, the Odyssey, Beowulf, and the Song of Roland among many others. As I’ve demonstrated, those bardic traditions worked like games. That weContinue Reading