Cumans and Tatars. Oriental Military in the Pre-Ottoman Balkans, 1186–1365

Thursday, 26 December 2019, 12:11.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Please. Stop the Globe Spinning… …I wanna get off. Leeloo Dallas. Multipass. Waving a one-way ticket to Mars. If only I had the time to read another 300 plus pages. Sigh! Cumans and Tatars. Oriental Military in the Pre-Ottoman Balkans, 1186–1365

Scandinavian Saga Sources

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

And after these there are the German ones!

The Romanian Americans

Thursday, 26 December 2019, 6:34.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Somebody forgot to tell my inbox that it is Holiday Season. I’ve a little catching up to do. Sigh! The Romanian Americans

Prior Planning…

Wednesday, 25 December 2019, 10:29.Reading time less than 1 minute.

…& Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance. Good ol’d HM Forces phrase! Woohooo! I’m Organised. Amid the usual family-created Xmas melodrama and mayhem – I have a few minutes to work.

Masada

Wednesday, 25 December 2019, 6:17.Reading time less than 1 minute.

LoveWiki : Masada Christmas Day here. Merry Christmas One and All :o)

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 […]

Sense & Sensibility

Sunday, 22 December 2019, 11:18.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I used to live a short drive from the National Trust’s “designated” Jane Austen home. V disappointed with the place. Like Shakespeare’s “house” in Stratford, it looked a bit like a film set. Anyway. Back to the real point. Things are beginning to make a LOT more sense :o) From NC :

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 […]

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.