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International Marie de France Society

Marie de France's "Laüstic"

Presented by
Walter Blue 
in his own English translation
Copyright 2000 
Background music
Arrangements by 
Lesl Harker
 Copyright 2001

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Walter Blue
is a professor of French and Italian 
at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. 
His research interests include the Arthurian World, 
Marie de France, Medieval Theatre and Francois Villon. 
He has translated into rhymed English 
assorted troubadour and trouvere works 
as well as six of Marie's twelve Lais. 
The remaining half-dozen are "in progress."


Lesl Harker
     is a traditional musician 
residing and performing in the NY- NJ area. 
She plays traditional music of 
Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany and England, 
with flutes, guitar, and voice, 
and occasionally, hammered dulcimer. 
She also arranges and composes weaving the old with the new. 
Music Credits from The Recording:

Druimionn Dubh - Scottish traditional.
The Nightingale, 
composed by the late Irish fiddler Sean Ryan 
(used with permission).
The Lamentation of Hugh Reynolds - Irish traditional.
A Breton traditional An Dro.  (no name)
The May Morning Dew - Irish traditional.
Colchiques dans les prés (Automne) - 
French or Breton traditional.
Farewell Aberystwyth - Welsh traditional.
Connecting segments composed by Lesl Harker.
Arrangements c 2001 Lesl Harker

Last revision: December 15, 2007 by Chantal A. Marechal