The Saga Saga

Sunday, 22 December 2019, 9:03.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Mmmn. Working with both the Völsunga saga and the Nibelungenlied Saga and Wagner’s Ring Cycle is proving interesting. I may be a little bit biased (!) but my preferences has always been for the Eddaic Lays. From Finch’s translation of Völsunga : The never-ending story strikes again :o)

Erda

Saturday, 21 December 2019, 17:56.Reading time 1 minute.

Wiki : Das Rheingold Wow! I’ve just met Erda from the Ring Cycle. German : Erde English : Earth “Primal earth mother, goddess of earthly wisdom” And : Key figure of the Ring, she appears only twice on stage, but like Freia and Loge, she plays an essential role by interposed music. The first scene where she appears […]

Too Salient not to Quote

Saturday, 21 December 2019, 7:42.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Written by Allegra Printz : “The Ring (Wagner’s opera and the ancient stories) speaks to such current experiences as the need for the old order – “ancient fires” – of the Piscean Age to recognise and yield to the incoming qualities of the Aquarian Age in an energetic transition due to the precession of the […]

Rheingold

Friday, 20 December 2019, 18:52.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Oh. I may’ve got sidetracked somewhere today. Back to me, me, me. I’ve reached the Synopsis.v Do not get me on that subject. Writing a synopsis Hurts one’s brain! Anyhoos Plot Synopsis of the four part Ring of the Nibelung Prologue. What? Get on with the juice!! Oh, The Rhinegold. Or Rheingold, Or…. Scene One […]

Prophesy of Völuspá – The Seeress

Friday, 20 December 2019, 13:30.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Finally. After almost 2 hours. I get to open my new delivery. The first thing I read is… Prophesy of Völuspá – The Seeress Hear me, all you hallowed beings, Both high and low, THE FATES I FATHOM, YET FARTHER I SEE Icelandic Poetic Edda – 9th -11th Cent. C.E. I have sooooo […]

Arthur Rackham and the Ring Cycle

Friday, 20 December 2019, 11:40.Reading time 2 minutes.

I work every morning for my eldest son’s business (unpaid) But every now and again he shows his appreciation with an Amazon voucher. So I bought the above tarot. For me, this gift will teach more than any books, TV, theses etc And – to top it all – the illustrations are by one of […]

Black Panther

Friday, 20 December 2019, 8:01.Reading time 3 minutes.

I knew there was something much deeper in the 12th C Georgian poem that I’m so obsessed with right now. It’s called The Man in the Black Panther’s Skin. Two little known facts : The poet is connected very strongly with Empress Tamar. Tamar is also called the King of Georgia. Shapeshifter vibe? Written […]

Georgia may Rewrite History of Written Language

Friday, 20 December 2019, 6:45.Reading time 5 minutes.

I came across this article a couple of days ago. Very interesting! 23 AUGUST, 2015 – 21:44 MARK MILLER 7th century BC inscription in Georgia may rewrite history of written language Archaeologists working at the ancient site of Grakliani Hill in Georgia have found inscriptions that may date back 2,700 years—well before the […]

The Three Chests

Thursday, 19 December 2019, 16:45.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I love/adore/worship this Bard fellow o) Those with eyes to see will “see” just how many layers lie here within. Oh. Made myself laugh there. My bad :o( Merchant of Venice, anyone?

Prose Poem

Thursday, 19 December 2019, 12:39.Reading time less than 1 minute.

The illustration above comes from the original epic poem (which is really prose) that I’m reading now. I have Never come across this before but it is a beautiful gift that’s a bit (!) addictive :o) The TBR pile just fell over. M’eh! The poem, strangely enough, is not set in Georgia, but in […]

A Poem from the Golden Age

Thursday, 19 December 2019, 7:25.Reading time 3 minutes.

These are the first lines of an epic 12th century Georgian poem. Mmmmmn! There was in Arabia Rostevan, a king by the grace of God, happy, exalted, generous, modest, lord of many hosts and knights, just and gracious, powerful, far-seeing, himself a peerless warrior, moreover fluent in speech: No other child had the king […]

The Insignia of the Princes of Transylvania

Tuesday, 17 December 2019, 7:18.Reading time less than 1 minute.

My inbox seems to have given me the Theme of the Day. Heyho. Go with the flow :o) The Insignia of the Princes of Transylvania : JÁNOS B. SZABÓ

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.