Give Us a Clue?

Tuesday, 20 August 2019, 12:17.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Okay. Just the one. Wiki : Henry Beaufort

The Erythraean Sibyl

Tuesday, 20 August 2019, 9:49.Reading time 1 minute.

Michelangelo’s rendering of The Erythraean Sibyl Wiki : The Erythraean Sibyl I’ve talked about the Sibylline Oracles before but this time they are connected to Emperor Constantine. Eusebius (Eusebius of Caesarea (/juːˈsiːbiəs/; Greek: Εὐσέβιος τῆς Καισαρείας, Eusébios tés Kaisareías; ad 260/265 – 339/340), also known as Eusebius Pamphili (from the Greek: Εὐσέβιος τοῦ Παμϕίλου), was a historian of Christianity, exegete, and Christianpolemicist) mentions the Erythraean Sibyl in […]

The Marble Emperor

Tuesday, 20 August 2019, 6:25.Reading time 1 minute.

Marble relief of a double-headed eagle in the Church of St Demetrios in Mystras, marking the spot where Constantine XI was crowned. What is/was The Marble Emperor? According to Wiki : “The King asleep in mountain (D 1960.2 in Stith Thompson’s motif index system)is a prominent folklore motif found in many folktales and legends. Thompson also termed it as the Kyffhäuser type. Some other designations are: king in […]

Mysterious and Unknown Trikutam Temple in India

Sunday, 18 August 2019, 8:57.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Ruthenia….. Anyone?

Thursday, 15 August 2019, 12:53.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Wiki : Ruthenian language I guess not!

WHERE AND WHEN THE INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES HAPPENED.

Thursday, 15 August 2019, 6:25.Reading time 3 minutes.

I’m trying very hard to conquer the complexities of the modern Indo – European language research. But with stuff like – “Archaeo-semiotic” and “five-range hierarchical and decentralized communication web” It’s all a bit mumbo jumbo at the mo’ I quite like plain and simple. Like the following… …From NC : “WHERE AND WHEN THE […]

MUD in Your EYE

Tuesday, 13 August 2019, 16:09.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Flood? Mud? Cover UP? Hidden History?

Alasdair Mhic Colla

Monday, 12 August 2019, 13:58.Reading time less than 1 minute.

This is a “blast from my past” Forgive me, beautiful D. But I need Alasdair today. 6ft7inch Irish/Scottish Highlander/Islander. Beheaded! Wiki : Alasdair Mac Colla

Edith/Matilda

Tuesday, 6 August 2019, 9:50.Reading time 1 minute.

Wiki – Matilda Edith/Matilda is better known to history as Matilda of Scotland. She was the daughter of the Scottish King, Malcom Canmore and his English wife, St. Margaret. She was christened Edith but left Scotland as a small child to be educated in England. A few years later she married Henry I, son of […]

Harald Hardrada

Tuesday, 6 August 2019, 7:06.Reading time 1 minute.

Wiki : Harald Charles Darwin bores me at the best of times. So I’ve decided to go back to my past as a novelist. During the years of research for Ravens of Dinefwr, I fell completely head-over-heels for a Norwegian King. Magnus Barelegs. Trust me. This’ll make sense —- eventually. Magnus was the grandson […]

Darwin?

Tuesday, 6 August 2019, 5:07.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Only the work is important. So get on with it! OK. What in the blue-blazes does Charles Darwin have to do with Indo-European Languages? I’m stumped.

More Language

Monday, 5 August 2019, 5:08.Reading time 7 minutes.

A couple of days ago, I was – unexpectedly – sent a link by someone whose work I admire very much. Thank you. It is leading me further down this language path. I Love it :o) Let’s start here: From archaeology.org (Where you can hear this language spoken!) Telling Tales in Proto-Indo-European By […]

The Ravens of Dinefwr is the first in a series of novels-in-progress set in the early 12th century. It follows the dispossessed members of the South Wales House of Dinefwr from their origins in Deheubarth to the centre of the known world, Jerusalem. Come and be my fellow Far-Farer. Come travelling and unravelling with me through Wales, Norway, Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Russia, Constantinople, Italy, the Balkans, the Holy Land. Come and Far-Fare through every degree on my 12th century compass.