It’s Official!
Despite Everything that Everyone has told me my Whole Life… …I am NOT the only Weirdo in the world. Wooohoooo! What a relief :o)
Read MoreCategory: Myth and Legend
John Keats
I’ve been reading Keat’s poem, Endymion. I’d started looking into Perseus but came across this and went off the rails, as per! Endymion, iv …“Over wide streams and mountains great we went, And, save when Bacchus kept his ivy tent, Onward the tiger and the leopard pants, With Asian elephants: Onward these myriads—-with song […]
Read MoreI REJECT This.
FFS. OK. I know. Humour and Humbility (as M.Poirot calls it) are better than their bombs and their guns and their guns and their bombs but…there is a limit on the BS meter. Apologies, sincere and undiluted, to the maker of this. You say Drag – ut. I say Drag- oo. But I could be […]
Read MoreThe Wild Hunt
From the Peterborough Chronicle 1127 : Many men both saw and heard a great number of huntsmen hunting. The huntsmen were black, huge, and hideous, and rode on black horses and on black he-goats, and their hounds were jet black, with eyes like saucers, and horrible. This was seen in the very deer park of […]
Read MoreHerne the Hunter
Myth and Legend thingy. Wiki : Herne the Hunter Many Clues Therein. But I’ll skip over Monarch of the Glen, Shakespeare, Anglo-Saxon blahblah and stick with the Irish right now. Clannad. The Hooded Man.
Read MoreThe Viking Spirit
I love Daniel McCoy’s work. This book is fabulous and so is his website Norse Mythology for Smart People. Please check it out. I’m very drawn to Freya. Mrs Story/His Story? I just read the myths and legends slightly differently nowadays :o) From https://norse-mythology.org/ FREYA “Freyja and the Necklace” by James Doyle […]
Read MoreGhost Ships
Do the REsearch yourselves. Christ Crucified on the mast of a ship. Very cream-crackered now. WikiM;eh : Ghost Ships Neverendingstory.
Read MoreOwl of Athena
5 to 5 here. Dark. And the owls are calling. I just heard ’em. Wiki : Owl of Athena
Read MoreLa Terra Á Piatta
Family Globe Busting in Bella Italia. Oh. YES. Molto Bene :o)
Read MoreBrigid
A statuette in the Museum of Brittany, Rennes, probably depicting Brigid or Brigantia: c. 2nd century BCE FeckWiki : Brigid It has been suggested that Brigid is a continuation of the Indo-European dawn goddess. She is associated with the spring season, fertility, healing, poetry and smithcraft. I’ve been reading about the Irish Immortals. The Pagan Goddess Brigid. Imbolc?. […]
Read MoreTo Lie With Lions
Again with the glorious Dorothy Dunnett. Niccolò this time. With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the historical novel, presents The House of Niccolò series. The time is the 15th century, when intrepid merchants became the new knighthood of Europe. Among […]
Read MoreDragut
Anyone who has ever read Dorothy Dunnett knows the name Dragut Reis. Wiki : Dragut THE UNCROWNED KING OF THE MEDITERRANEAN: DRAGUT REIS Abstract: Undoubtedly the heir of Barbarossa in the Mediterranean was Dragut Reis. Following the foot prints of Barbarossa, Dragut tried to construct a system between the Ottoman capital and the […]
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