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Frozen culture-bound-item census — Malory, Le Morte Darthur XVIII.xxiv
Frozen from the Middle English alone, before a word of the translation was written, and committed before the study limb's independent censusers were shown the passage. This is the lead's census. It exists to be compared against independently produced ones, not to be right.
The inclusion rule (written before the census, and given verbatim to the independent censusers)
A culture-bound item is a common noun or fixed noun phrase occurring in the passage that denotes a thing, material, practice, office, social role, or named work belonging specifically to the source culture and period, and whose referent a non-specialist reader of the target would not reliably identify. Proper names of persons and places are excluded. Each item is listed once, by its form in the source, however many times it occurs.
The rule is a reconstruction of the implicit rule behind A-yosano-yomogiu §2's twelve-row
table, which was never written down. It is stated here so that it can be applied by someone who is
not its author — which is the thing being measured.
Abstract value terms are excluded by this rule, and worship is therefore not on the list below
even though it is the passage's most consequential word. It is the analogue of the anchor's §1
うるはし thread, which the anchor also treats separately from its §2 item census. The thread is
handled in the translator's log, not here.
The census — 20 items
| # | item (source form) | occurrences | what it denotes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tournament |
1 | a formal multi-day mêlée fought in sides, with prize and heralds |
| 2 | jousts |
1 | the day's fighting, as an event |
| 3 | the Round Table |
1 | the named fellowship, as an institution |
| 4 | fellowship |
2 | a knight's sworn company, a formal tie |
| 5 | blood (of Sir Launcelot's blood, King Ban's blood) |
2 | kin-affinity as a fighting allegiance |
| 6 | sleeve of gold |
3 | a lady's token worn as an identifying device |
| 7 | shield (the green shield) |
1 | the bearer of an identifying device, hence a disguise |
| 8 | make (a man) knight |
2 | dubbing, and the lifelong tie it creates |
| 9 | blow unto lodging |
2 | the trumpet signal ending the day's fighting |
| 10 | lodging |
3 | the quarters/encampment at a tournament |
| 11 | hackney |
1 | a light riding horse, as opposed to a warhorse |
| 12 | unarm |
2 | to be divested of armour by attendants |
| 13 | heralds |
1 | the officers who proclaim and tally the day's count |
| 14 | the prize |
1 | the formal award of the tournament |
| 15 | broad arrow |
1 | a specific arrowhead type |
| 16 | noblesse |
1 | the whole complex of noble conduct |
| 17 | Sir |
31 | the knightly title of address |
| 18 | duke |
3 | a rank |
| 19 | knight |
20 | the social role, not merely the word |
| 20 | revel (revel, game, and play) |
2 | formal entertainment following a tournament |
Every one of the twenty was verified present in source-me.txt by exact string match before this
file was written.
Provenance of the source
Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XVIII chapter xxiv (Caxton's 1485 division), from Project Gutenberg #1252 (Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 2), the whole chapter, 821 words, from "So this tournament and this jousts dured long" to "to his friend was that time cherished."
One editorial change to the fetched text and no other: hard line-wrapping inside paragraphs was
removed, so the three paragraphs are single lines. No character was added, deleted or altered;
Gutenberg's typographic apostrophes and its [be] editorial insertion are kept as they stand.