Showing posts with label Merlin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Merlin. Show all posts
Friday, 10 May 2024

Wolfie's Excalibur

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 Well, it had to happen: Wolfie got his own Excalibur . Made of wood and not steel, but still. I will explain how he came into possession wi...
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Saturday, 5 August 2023

GrailQuest (The Den of Dragons)

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A couple of weeks ago, I paid myself another trip down nostalgia lane and it only cost me £0.99. You may remember on this blog a few mention...
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Tuesday, 15 December 2020

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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'Tis the season to be reading and I might start this post with a confession: although I am a medievalist, specialized in Arthurian liter...
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Monday, 1 June 2020

The Sword in the Stone

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I took this picture at the Crich Tramway Village in Derbyshire , more precisely in this little pathway in the woodlands by the village. It ...
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Tuesday, 5 May 2020

The crimes of MZB

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I don't know why I started thinking about it, maybe because I blogged about Merlin recently . I originally came to the Arthurian legend ...
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Wednesday, 29 April 2020

Merlin in Derbyshire

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I took this picture at the Crich Tramway Village in Derbyshire . There is a path in the wood, a bit outside the village and there are a lot...
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Saturday, 11 January 2020

Meeting King Arthur, Merlin and the others

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Sometimes you get back to your old literary (and, in this case, legendary) loves. Last month, I was saying that being at my parents' hom...
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Wednesday, 6 February 2019

Merlin and a new old story

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Time goes so fast that I did not have time recently to report here on this blog a piece of news that got the former academic and medievalist...
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Tuesday, 1 March 2016

Saint David's Day and me

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First and foremost, for those who do not know, the first of March is of course Saint David 's Day , the national day of Wales , because ...
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Sunday, 1 February 2015

The Tomb of Merlin

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This picture was taken by yours truly during our visit of the ancient and legendary (I would even say mythical) forest of Brocéliande , se...
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Tuesday, 6 January 2015

The Land of Merlin

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I took this picture back in 2008, during our very first trip to Brittany, where my parents-in-law live. It was the ensign of a tourist shop ...
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Tuesday, 1 April 2008

Arbre d'Or

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Here is a quick entry, about the Arbre d'Or, where Merlin is supposed to have been imprisoned. I prefered the surroundings to the tree ...

Journey to Brocéliande

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We went to Brocéliande (also known as Paimpont, but I prefer its Celtic name) yesterday. We didn't see all (not Barenton, for instance),...