Epic Tales 2003 (CCA Glasgow Commission)

EpicTales is a php based online engine translating and substituting Modern English words with Old English words using a 2500 entries vocabulary taken from the “Beowulf” manuscript. Users are invited to type a url and to submit it pressing a button. The displayed page contains the same layout of “the original” one but with changed texts, a new font called "beowulf" derived from the original manuscript and also with all the images saved in gray scale tones. "fight for the standards" (the sentence on the "submit" button) is a title of a "war machine and/or tactics" drawing by Leonardo. Info and Press

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