Alan Sisto
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5,555 appearances
12 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 7 Jul
Alan Sisto’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But it's very interesting that over time, woodawasa became corrupted into modern English as woodhouse.
Now, in Sir Gawain, Wodwos is apparently a plural.
The word appears actually in a list of various creatures and monsters that Gawain fights while he's on his journey.
And I'm going to try to tackle a little Middle English here.
Some while with Wodwos that wanted in the Canaris.
which means apparently sometimes he fought with woodwoses that dwelt in the crags.
Now, the Ring of Words, which, by the way, everybody, if you're a Tolkien fan, you should have this book on your shelves, a tremendous resource.
It reminds us that Tolkien's modernized form of the word, woodwose, appears elsewhere in the legendarium, specifically in the Children of Hurin.
Cyrus, the bully elf of Menegroth, taunts Turin at Thingol's table, calling him wood woes no less than three times in about less than three minutes.
We read, Then Turin took up a drinking vessel and cast it in Cyrus' face, and he fell backward with great hurt.
And Turin drew his sword and would have run at him, but Mablung restrained him.
Then Cyrus, rising, spat blood upon the board and spoke as best he could with a broken mouth.
How long shall we harbor this wood woes?
Who rules here tonight?
The king's law is heavy upon those who hurt his lieges in the hall, and for those who draw blades there, outlawry is the least doom.
Outside the hall I could answer you, wood woes.
That's Mablung basically saying, mess around, find out, man.
Mablung, I love that guy.
Absolutely is.
Yeah.
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