Delay

It is already awhile ago again as I wrote a post here. Admittedly, I did had the intention to write much sooner after the last time, but hee, sometimes problems occur at moments, you cannot solve them immediately. My older work-PC was shriving for more autonomy and started more and…

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What now?

The year 2021 has started, the holidays are over, even for me as a retired. ;-) Because I do the daily work of my research and writing projects according to my whim, I may need a few more days to decide what to do first. At choice are a longer…

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More contact options

Lately, I've done just little of addition to this site. That said, however, the few things done give visitors more options to get in touch with me, There's first in the sidebar on the right the option to contact me through Skype, either chatting (live writing chat), calling (talking to…

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Changes of this website

The download section of this site "Boudicca's Bard" was recently removed and all related files deleted from the media library of the site. In addition, this also happened to the videos from the same library. This means, downloading of the offered files, including videos is no longer available. The reason…

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Text-To-Speech (TTS)

In the coming months, it may easily last as long as the whole Winter, I will add the option of letting the articles at this site read out loud instead of reading them. That is, actually, listen to a voice who reads the text. I was asked for that by…

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Völuspá video

[sayit block="1" lang="en-GB" speed="1"] The most prominent works containing Norse mythology are the Prose and the Poetic Edda. The latter work starts with an epic called "Völuspá", often given the subtitle "The Prophecy of the Seeress". Last Summer I started a video project which was scoped at this epic poem.…

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New book 2

[sayit block="1" lang="en-GB" speed="1"] My new German book, I told about in the previous post, has been published meanwhile. I had a small pre-order action in Facebook, and, based of the orders I got, I ordered at the publisher 26 books, which are now going to the people who ordered…

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New book

My new German book "Illustrated Lexicon of Germanic Deities" (original title: Illustriertes Lexikon der germanischen Gottheiten) is about to be published. The contract is signed, and the ISBN is implemented. The 2nd and last printed test copies are checked - it seems unavoidable that after xx corrections still small errors…

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Video

When in Berlin the "Long Night of Religions" was canceled due to the Covid19 pandemic, which was to take place in June, some organizers came up with the idea of making the whole thing virtual as good as possible. At their request I made my "Frau Holle" talk, which I…

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Heathenism article – 2nd

Heathenism article - 2nd At last, my article about "heathenism' (or paganism, whatever you call it), is published online. Since the first draft a lot of content has changed, not least because of the valuable input of Thorsten Ostwaldt (theologian) and Rene Piehl (religious studies). The article has become somewhat…

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Heathenism article

My German article with the simple title "Paganism" is completed. The first version was proofread by several volunteering people and corrections and additions were made to aspects of theological and scientific-religious kind. Then other volunteers checked it for spelling and grammar and there was a lot to correct. In the…

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New Galleries

The picture galleries at this site are divided in two groups; there are the scans and there are the photos I made. Quite a few galleries were added over the last few days. New in the 1st group are: scans of the Nehalennia Domburg finds of 1646 from old books…

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Myths and Folktales

In the menu above, some to the right, you'll have the item Podcasts. Putting the mouse on it, you get in English "Myths and Folktales", if you switch language, you'll get that in German or Dutch. Clicking on it, you get an overview of stories, told by volunteers. You are…

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The Story of the Frisian Pidder Lüng and the Kale Revenge
The illustrator Alfred Will draw this for the book "Deutsche Heimatsagen" from 1954, published in the former DDR.

The Story of the Frisian Pidder Lüng and the Kale Revenge

The following story is based on the ballad "Pidder Lüng" by the German poet Detlev von Liliencron (1844–1909), but the content is not entirely identical. The story probably is to be situated in the 15th century when Schleswig-Holstein and therefore also the isle of Sylt were under Danish rulership. Meanwhile,…

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A short progress report

The new notebook, badly needed, came, and is meanwhile setup, configured and ready for use. Because it will mostly used while I am 'on the road', I felt it necessary to built in some tricky securities; except for BIOS and Windows passwords is the harddrive scrambled which needs an access…

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Lienden – Roman Coins

A short note I wrote down two years ago - time for its publication. :-) At the village Lienden, northwest of the Dutch city of Nijmegen, at previous Batavian territory, many gold coins were found, Roman Solidi from Late Antiquity. This golden treasury was by and by found, the first…

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What is Astrology?

On January 16, I was again at the Eldaring regulars' table for the Rhine-Main area and the Taunus. This time the focus was on astrology. Ms. Hannelore Goos gave a lecture entitled "What is Astrology?". A lecture that was understandable even for interested people who knew hardly or even nothing…

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Eldaring regulars’ table

At January 16, 2020, I joined again "Fafnir's Hort", the "Eldaring" regulars' table of the Rhein-Main-Taunus Group. (The "Eldaring" is Germany's biggest Organization of Germanic heathens). This event takes place every month, unfortunately I can't take part every time. The picture above is the emblem of the group, © Fafnirs…

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