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And the crowd goes wild. She did it! Stupid Barbarians. Black Death?
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Scots in Russia
In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries Scottish merchants spread in hordes all over Prussia and Poland as traders, but few ventured further east to Russia. In the reign of Ivan Vassilievitch (The Terrible) the English spirit of adventure- which had formed The Society for the Discovery of Unknown Lands which focused on Russia for trade […]
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Never was a FAN of Spandau Ballet. But tony’s voice is…ooooooh :o)
Read MoreFamily History
Every family has a history. Stories are handed down, generation to generation. We love it because we find a great sense of connection to something bigger than every-day-us. But how much is truth and how much is myth? My family has the Admiral. You’d think I’d be proud and giddy but… …I’ve been trying very […]
Read MoreOh. I’ve Done That One :o)
The European half (WEST) of the Double-Headed Eagle and the Yellow of the Cathar Flag Missing!! In my inbox this morning… WOObloodyHOOOOO! Basarab House of Wallachia
Read MoreCome one, Come All…
…To the U A V show. Y’know when you laugh sooooooo hard that you have to snort. Or else you’ll die? Don’t stop me now… Go away Freddie :o) Zombie Dolores, yer ‘aving a larf, lassie. Debbie Harry? Nope. Out, out damn spot. Gagagagaga! Freddie? Last warning, pal.
Read MoreRed Hair
Wow. I had to trawl my archives for that image. Amazon no longer sells the book with this cover! Wiki : Early Slavs Wiki : Red Headed League There’s more. Mummies in China. Hamish Macbeth. Andronicus I Comnenus had red/gold hair Mary Magdalene had red hair, Blahdeblah
Read MoreInspired by a reference to Walking Statues
How Does Birnham Wood Come to Dunsinane in Shakespeare’s Macbeth? Credit: Print Collector/Hulton Fine Art Collection/Getty Images In William Shakespeare’s “MacBeth,” Birnham Wood comes to Dunsinane in the form of Malcolm’s army camouflaged with boughs from the trees of the forest. The military action is first suggested by Duncan in Act V, Scene 4, Lines 6-9.When […]
Read MoreLoki
Good Lord. Somehow. Someway. This was dredged up from them good ol’ memory banks. Trickster Rules the World ? Loki’s relation with the gods varies by source; Loki sometimes assists the gods and sometimes behaves in a malicious manner towards them. Loki is a shape shifter and in separate incidents he appears in the form of a salmon, […]
Read MoreWhat is it with these Celts?
Lalalalalala! Pout. Cerys Matthews. Times 2 The Mabinogion with a Welsh Voice. Bloody Celts!
Read MoreThe White Goddess
This labyrinthine and extraordinary book, first published more than fifty years ago, was the outcome of Graves’s vast reading and curious research into strange territories of folklore, mythology, religion and magic. Erudite and impassioned, it is a scholar-poet’s quest for the meaning of European myths, a polemic about the relations between man and woman, and […]
Read MoreJoseph Campbell
Okeydokey. It must be a book recommendation day today. Last year I wrote a little sentence about the Hero’s Journey being fitted from the outside in. I still sort of agree with that but, having learned a few new things, I’ve realised that out or in or upside down, The Hero’s Journey is as old […]
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