Wæstm: Installment Number Ten!

The penultimate escapade…

Hello freondas!! I’m so excited to post the next to last installment of the Wæstm project for you today! This chapter is a bit longer, and it finally moves past the battle and towards the conclusion of the Biblical narrative that it was originally based on. This chapter is set in the leftmost side of the Bosch triptych, which represents the Garden of Eden. I really enjoyed the whimsy instilled in the creation of this segment, as well as getting to study and explore another area of the beautiful and complex painting. I hope you all enjoy, and I’ll be back soon with the very last chapter!

Chapter the Tenth

He falls into the armor-tree

Hē gefylð in þæt gūþsearotrēow 

He is very high up

Hē is miclum hēah ūp

He can see all of paradise

Hē con seon eall neorxnawanges

In the distance: a glowing, beautiful tree

In þām fyrlene: sum wlītebeorht trēow 

He leaps off of the branch

Hē hleapð fram þām telge

And flies across the land!

Ond gefleogeð æfter þām lande!

Thunk!

θʌnk!

He falls at the base of the tree.

He asigð þām grunde þæs trēowes

The apple climbs the tree

Se waestm clymmeð þæt trēow

This is not easy 

Þæt nis yðe

The apple prevails

Se wæstm magað

He sits on the tree

Hē besitt on þaet treōw

He is home.

Hē is hām