Yvain


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The twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his poems. Now, for the first time, an experienced translator of medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of Chrétien’s major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor; it is ironic and sometimes bawdy; the poetry is crisp and vivid. In addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing, vibrant medieval past.




Charles Pettigrew, First Bishop-elect of the North Carolina Episcopal Church


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Boreas Tgb-10 Volatile Organic Carbon Data Over the Ssa


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The BOREAS TGB-10 team collected several trace gas data sets in its efforts to determine the role of biogenic hydrocarbon emissions with respect to boreal forest carbon cycles. This data set contains measured VOC concentrations. These data were obtained at the SSA-OJP site from May to September 1994. The data are stored in tabular ASCII files. Westberg, Hal and Hall, Forrest G. (Editor) and Conrad, Sara K. (Editor) and Hall, Brad and Jackson, Andrea V. Goddard Space Flight Center NASA/TM-2000-209891/VOL243, Rept-2000-03136-0/VOL243, NAS 1.15:209891/VOL243







Boreas Tgb-5 Biogenic Soil Emissions of No and N2o


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The BOReal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study Trace Gas Biogeochemistry (BOREAS TGB)-5 team made several measurements of trace gas concentrations and fluxes at various NSA sites. This data set contains biogenic soil emissions of nitric oxide and nitrous oxide that were measured over a wide range of spatial and temporal site parameters. Since very little is known about biogenic soil emissions of nitric oxide and nitrous oxide from the boreal forest, the goal of the measurements was to characterize the biogenic soil fluxes of nitric oxide and nitrous oxide from black spruce and jack pine areas in the boreal forest. The diurnal variation and monthly variation of the emissions was examined as well as the impact of wetting through natural or artificial means. Temporally, the data cover mid-August 1993, June to August 1994, and mid-July 1995. The data are provided in tabular ASCII files. The data files are available on a CD-ROM (see document number 20010000884). Levine, J. S. and Winstead, E. L. and Parsons, D. A. B. and Scholes, M. C. and Cofer, W. R. and Cahoon, D. R. and Sebacher, D. I. and Scholes, R. J. and Hall, Forrest G. (Editor) and Conrad, Sara K. (Editor) Goddard Space Flight Center; Langley Research Center NASA/TM-2000-209891/VOL230, Rept-2000-03136-0/VOL230, NAS 1.15:209891/VOL230




Boreas Te-5 Leaf Carbon Isotope Data


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The BOREAS TE-5 team collected measurements in the NSA and SSA on gas exchange, gas composition, and tree growth. This documentation describes leaf carbon isotope data that were collected in 1993 and 1994 at the NSA and SSA OJP sites, the SSA OBS site, and the NSA UBS site. In addition, leaf carbon isotope data were collected in 1994 only at the NSA and SSA OA sites. These data was collected to provide seasonal integrated physiological information for 10 to 15 common species at these 6 BOREAS sites. The data are stored in tabular ASCII files. The data files are available on a CD-ROM (see document number 20010000884), or from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC). Hall, Forrest G. (Editor) and Curd, Shelaine (Editor) and Ehleriinger, Jim and Brooks, J. Renee and Flanagan, Larry Goddard Space Flight Center NASA/TM-2000-209891/VOL140, Rept-2000-03136-0/VOL140, NAS 1.15:209891/VOL140




Boreas Te-5 Tree Ring and Carbon Isotope Ratio Data


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The BOREAS TE-5 team collected several data sets to investigate the vegetation-atmosphere CO2 and H2O exchange processes. These data include tree ring widths and cellulose carbon isotope data from coniferous trees collected at the BOREAS NSA and SSA in 1993 and 1994 by the BOREAS TE-5 team. Ring width data are provided for both Picea mariana and Pinus banksiana. The carbon isotope data are provided only for Pinus banksiana. The data are provided in tabular ASCII files. The data files are available on a CD-ROM (see document number 20010000884), or from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC). Hall, Forrest G. (Editor) and Curd, Shelaine (Editor) and Ehleriinger, Jim and Brooks, J. Renee and Flanagan, Larry Goddard Space Flight Center NASA/TM-2000-209891/VOL142, Rept-2000-03136-0/VOL142, NAS 1.15:209891/VOL142