T is for Thor I’m doing folklore and book review posts to reach and please a larger audience. Previous years have shown select interest in both and to minimise blogging throughout the year, I’m focusing my efforts on April. If you’d rather check out my book review for today, go here. Thor is always connected …
Q is for Queen I’m doing folklore and book review posts to reach and please a larger audience. Previous years have shown select interest in both and to minimise blogging throughout the year, I’m focusing my efforts on April. If you’d rather check out my book review for today, go here. Besides the place, the …
J is for Jaded I’m doing folklore and book review posts to reach and please a larger audience. Previous years have shown select interest in both and to minimise blogging throughout the year, I’m focusing my efforts on April. If you’d rather check out my book review for today, go here. Known as the god …
F is for Freyja I’m doing folklore and book review posts to reach and please a larger audience. Previous years have shown select interest in both and to minimise blogging throughout the year, I’m focusing my efforts on April. If you’d rather check out my book review for today, go here. A goddess of love, …
X is for X-Factor. No matter the name or how you spell it, the Fates are everywhere and in every culture. Folklore The Poetic Edda “Norns are figures of fate who may be present at a child’s birth, prophesying his future, as in the First Poem of Helgi Hundingsbani. As determiners of fate, the norns are …
V is for Valkyries. Valkyries are one of my favourite groups of women from ancient times. Folklore The Children of Odin by Padraic Colum [1920] AGAINST the time when the riders of Muspelheim, with the Giants and the evil powers of the Underworld, would bring on battle, Odin All-Father was preparing a host of defenders …
D is for Duergar. From Middle-Earth across all fantasy to the newest Rick Riordan Magnus Chase novel, dwarfs are all the rage. Folklore The Fairy Mythology by Thomas Keightley [1870] THE DUERGAR By ek fur jőrth nethan, A ek, undir stein, stath. Alvis–Mal. (I dwell the earth beneath, I possess, under the stone, my seat.) …
Last week we looked at what I write: Dark Fantasy. This week we’re looking at what features in my writing. Once upon a time I wrote about what folklore is and why folklore is important. I wrote about how we embrace it in our Disney movies and young adult novels – disguised as fairy tales. …
Honestly, I have no idea what the difference between a raven and a crow is. To me, they are beautiful black birds. According to the Collins English dictionary: crow n 1 any large gregarious songbird of the genus Corvus, esp C. corone (the carrion crow) of Europe and Asia: family Corvidae. Other species are the …
