Though I am retired, I've no time to bore myself. Researching and writing is part of my daily activities, some topics lend themselves for a (popular science) book, others for an article. And seldomly I'm in the mood to poetize. And then, there's also my part of the household, which…
Admittedly, although I worked over the last quite a few months at my PC, it was not making new contributions to this site that had priority. Instead the research around the ancient terms "T(h)ing - þing or ðing" took so much time that other work at the computer had to…
After the German language edition of this book appeared in 2020, I had more or less abandoned the project, but from far and wide came the request to make the book in English as well. After some hesitation - translations of my books I do myself - I then started…
From the preface: It was quite some time ago, while I was 'surfing' the Internet somewhat aimlessly, that I read the claim that the "Sachsenspiegel" (Saxon Mirror) dates from the time when the Saxons were fighting Charlemagne. Even two websites, one in German and one in English claimed this. I…
My life is partly like that of a hermit. Although I don't live in the wilderness, but in a detached house with a garden, I love to be at home, indoors or outdoors - in the garden or on the terrace. There are very few encounters with other people. And…
During my research for ancient assembly places in England, I found the entry below. It is about an oak that once stood in the village of Headingly, a suburb of the city of Leeds in West-Yorkshire, England. About that famous old oak, it was written: "The principal object in the…
From some of the books I wrote are both a printed version and an e-book available. For other books I have refused an -e-book version, because then, on some book stores on the web and at Google, too much is shown in the 'view inside' option. (It could be that…
At the site HG-SHOP.EU my wife and I sell the books we wrote ourselves, thus, it is just a very small shop. Although the books also can be bought at the publisher and in many book stores, we auto(r)graph all ordered books and that makes each copy unique. Technically, the…
[sayit block="1" lang="en-US-Wavenet-G" speed="1"]Currently, there are three technical issues at this site, that need attention: 1. As you perhaps see at the right of this page, the icons below the "About Me" text do not show anymore the respected social platforms, only the colors are left. That is why below…
On my initiative, the contracts with the publishing company of my two-volume work "Gods of the Germanic Peoples" have been terminated, for both the beautiful color edition and the cheaper black/white edition. For the latter, the termination has already become in effect, the color edition will follow soon. The reasons…
Quite a few years ago, it was in 2005, I published a small book in German, called "Nebelhexen", which is, translated, Mist Witches. With the completion of that book, the topic was ticked off for me. Yet, my interest in Western European folk tales remained unbroken and the collection of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
[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.…
[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…
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…
