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Showing posts with label Tolkien. Show all posts
05 July 2023

The Bee Wolf

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The previous post ended with a riddle about a hero's name that you all know. This blog has mentioned the poem  Beowulf  before in the co...
27 January 2023

"The Hands of the King...

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...are the hands of a healer." This line from The Lord of the Rings  sounds fantastical, but as a first-rate historian and medievalist,...
16 August 2022

Fastitocalon

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Fastitocalon is the name given to a sea creature in an Old English poem called "The Whale." This time I will with poetic art rehea...
15 August 2022

The Eddas and Tolkien

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The first and much-talked -about poem in the  Poetic Edda  is the  Völuspá  ("Prophecy of the Seeress"). In it, a seeress tells Od...
14 August 2022

The Poetic Edda

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The Poetic Edda  (author[s] unknown) is our name for a collection of narrative poems in Old Norse. It is distinct from the Prose Edda whose...
13 August 2022

The Prose Edda

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Written about 1220, the Prose Edda  by Snorri Sturluson is a detailed telling of the Scandinavian creation of the world, mythological storie...
03 January 2019

Birth of a Medievalist

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This is a slightly different tack for DailyMedieval, but many fans of his fiction are unaware of his career as a medievalist. John Rona...
02 September 2014

Death of a Medievalist

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Tolkien in his study Time to break one of my rules and discuss a 20th century event. Today is the 41st anniversary of the death of J....