The full thing is here: https://inivekin.github.io/abosa/

About 1.5-2 hours of reading if you like that kind of thing - or just skim the pics if you like.

I read Beowulf and thought I could do better. I guess I probably didn’t but I gave it a shot and I’m pretty proud of a few things in there. I’d like to record it in a sing-songy way someday…

  • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk
    English
    3·
    11 days ago

    I’m severely impressed with what you’ve done here, both artistically and poetically. What an epic project!

    Did you invent the alien script as well? It appears to be a letter-by-letter substitution of the English text, so technically quite learnable :)

    I’ve only read a few sections into it, but I’ve enjoyed what I’ve seen, so I’m going to come back and give it a little time when I have some. I’d love a pdf/epub etc for an e-reader (or a paper copy!), though it might be hard to get the image/text flow right - and I imagine quite some effort to rearrange the html document into a page-turning format.

    • inivekin@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
      2·
      11 days ago

      The font is simply Elian script. Luckily this nice person made it a font so I didn’t have to do so.

      I do have a pdf and epub version which I made a generator for from the html. My EPUB gen is a bit sus and I haven’t got it working right yet but I’ve pushed the pdf to the main git repo here. Good idea, will try improve them and I should add a link to them from the page itself.