Showing posts with label viking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label viking. Show all posts
Friday, 8 May 2026

"11 siècles de Normandie"

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Ma belle-mère a parfois des contenants cools. Comme cette boîte de biscuits, qui fait un résumé date par date de l'histoire de la Norman...
Friday, 10 April 2026

"My cat is named Odin"

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 Oh the things you discover sometimes thanks to old friends. My Italian friend sent me this picture a few months ago and I wanted to share i...
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Wednesday, 22 January 2025

"Viking aux fruits"

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Photo trouvée sur la page Facebook de Première Moisson . Je suis en retard dans les nouvelles, mais je voulais le dire: la boulangerie a un...
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Saturday, 30 November 2024

Aquila on Vikings

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There's something aout being a parent I did not expect: it means that Wolfie receives more and better mail than me. So yeah, the postman...
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Sunday, 19 November 2023

Odin, In Memoriam

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My long time readers remember Odin the one-eyed black cat who we used to have. He was the best, sweetest cat we ever met. He died ten years ...
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Friday, 13 October 2023

Odin for Friday the 13th (and Halloween)

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For today's countdown to Halloween post, given that it is Friday the 13th, I propose a trip down memory lane: ten years ago, I had a bla...
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Tuesday, 7 February 2023

A spies' coat of arms

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This post is I hope the first of many about police, army and intelligence services around the world. And if you ask me why I am doing this, ...
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Tuesday, 24 January 2023

Viking Bookmark

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No, no, I do not have a bookmark from the Viking Age. Actually, I don't think Vikings had bookmarks back in the days. I bought this book...
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Friday, 20 January 2023

A Map of the Nine Realms

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I blogged on Wednesday about the world tree Yggdrasil .  And I remembered that I had another drawing of the tree in  The Penguin Book of No...
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Wednesday, 11 January 2023

Yggdrasil

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 As you may remember (fron this post ), I have on my reading list The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson , which I have sort of started reading...
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Saturday, 10 December 2022

The Prose Edda

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'Tis the season to be reading and I haven't blogged all that much about, well, literary Christmas. I haven't really made one sug...
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Tuesday, 21 December 2021

Yule

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 Today is/was the shortest day of the year, which is the beginning of Yule . Which was the old namefor Christmas. Christmas owes a lot to Yu...
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Friday, 15 January 2021

Des "Vikings"(?)

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J'ai trouvé parmi mes vieilles photos celle-ci. Si je ne me trompe pas, nous l'avons acheté au Danemark. C'est supposé représent...
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Monday, 21 December 2020

Balder and the Mistletoe

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'Tis the season to be reading and troll the ancient Yuletide carols, and so on. It is not Christmas without a healthy dose of Norse myth...
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Friday, 13 March 2020

Odin for Friday the 13th

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We are Friday the 13th, so I thought I would share a picture of a black cat, just for the kick of it and because I am not superstitious (or ...
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Tuesday, 6 February 2018

Un Viking velu

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J'ai pris cette photo lors de notre dernier séjour à la maison familiale. C'est l'un des bibelots qu'on a achetés au Danemar...
Sunday, 7 January 2018

A friendly troll

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Back in November , I blogged about a troll I found in a shop in York . I mentioned then that I had seen this brand before, in fact that m...
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Friday, 8 December 2017

Norse Myths on my reading list

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'Tis the season to be reading and as Yuletide is coming I have been reading books related to the season. And of course I share my sugges...
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Tuesday, 5 December 2017

Norse Mythology for Christmas

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For me, Christmas is also time to read about Norse myths. It is a tradition and every year I read a story or two of Gods & Heroes from V...
Monday, 13 November 2017

A troll in York

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I took this picture in a shop in York , you can see here a proper Scandinavian troll . The monster, mind you, not the Internet creature. T...
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