My daughter Rachel is taking French in high school. She created a diorama from a scene in the very long French poem The Song of Roland (the oldest surviving major work of French literature). Take a peek inside.
Yes, she chose to depict Ganelon being quartered - where horses pull all four limbs off.
I'd blame violent video games, but we don't have any.
The End
2 years ago
8 comments:
so how did the left arm survive?
Awesome! He must have incredable strength in that left arm.
"incredible" sorry.
Yaaaaaaay!
I'll ask Rachel about the left arm. I'm guessing artistic license.
I have word on the left arm:
It's *about* to be pulled off. Thus the viewer gets the sense that the quartering is occurring now. You know, creating dramatic tension and all that. Yeah, we take dioramas very seriously at our house.
ummm.. AWESOME
did we learn nothing from the french? water boarding, indeed.
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