FLAT EARTH TRUTH ALERT NUMBER 182!!!

Thursday, 16 January 2020, 11:48.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I’m still on a Subphotonic binge! Side note : My heart lines match perfectly. I’d take a photo but I’ve only got…urm…two hands. If any single one of you have the balls to meet me face to face – I’ll show you :o) And Cue…

I Have a Talent, A Wonderful Thing…

Monday, 13 January 2020, 17:20.Reading time less than 1 minute.

…for gatecrashing Live Chats on yt and making everyone STFU. For a few minutes :o) My bad. #DontStopMeNow Go away, Freddie! NOT

A Static Vibe

Friday, 10 January 2020, 16:02.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Same page ? And not a Martin or Tolkien one. Gotta love a Myth and a Legend. TY SintA ;o)

NORTHERN LIGHTS IN SWEDEN | SWEDISH MYTHS OF NORTHERN LIGHT | AURORA BOREALIS | NORRSKEN

Tuesday, 7 January 2020, 12:02.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Watching this today made my mind boggle. Only yesterday, I had a conversation with someone who’d spent the first two months of one year in the mountains around Trondheim. To this day he remembers with complete awe the hours he spent sat on a snow mound, with absolute and complete silence all around, watching the […]

Burn Baby BURN!

Thursday, 2 January 2020, 8:17.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Otr/Otter

Sunday, 29 December 2019, 11:22.Reading time less than 1 minute.

A clue to why I get a little confused sometimes. Researching 12th century Scandinavian/Celtic Music I learned that sacred Irish (Celtic/Gaelic) harps were always stored in otter skins. Early Gaelic Harp And now – reading Volsunga Saga – I kind of understand the link (?) Ring of Bright Water. Nah. I REFUSE to watch that […]

Christina of Sweden

Sunday, 29 December 2019, 10:20.Reading time 3 minutes.

The groundbreaking biography of one of the most progressive, influential and entertaining women of the seventeenth century, Christina Alexandra, Queen of Sweden. In 1654, to the astonishment and dismay of her court, Christina Alexandra announced her abdication in favour of her cousin, Charles. Instrumental in bringing the Thirty Years War to a close at the […]

German Saga Sources

Friday, 27 December 2019, 11:48.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Scandinavian Saga Sources

Thursday, 26 December 2019, 11:26.Reading time less than 1 minute.

And after these there are the German ones!

Thank You For The (Music) Memories

Monday, 23 December 2019, 12:11.Reading time less than 1 minute.

The Songs I’m Singing – 29% Abba Stars Will Lead the Way – 36% Simple Mind(s)

Eiríkr Magnússon & William Morris

Monday, 23 December 2019, 11:13.Reading time 2 minutes.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of […]

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)

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.