My Albion
A chronicle of sundry adventures in England.
fredag 31. oktober 2014
Harald Fairhair and his dead queen
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Halloween is traditionally a time for gory tales, and even though this is not a deep-rooted phenomenon in my native Norway, I will this ...
søndag 12. oktober 2014
The Secret Life of Beavers
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The beavers ( castor ) is so named from being castrated. Beavers are hunted for their testicles, which are good for medicine; when a hu...
tirsdag 7. oktober 2014
Boccaccio's Sicily
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On the road from the airport to Palermo The hundred stories that comprise Bocaccio's Decameron take place in a wide...
onsdag 1. oktober 2014
Notes on productive procrastination
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Nick, this is not life experience, this is procrastination at the zoo. - Winston Bishop, New Girl S02E09 One day, probably in 2012 while...
mandag 29. september 2014
Chants for Saint Michael
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Michaelmas is drawing to a close, and in celebration of this day I will here present a selection of chants and images of Saint Michael,...
lørdag 27. september 2014
Evil cast triumphantly to ground - dragonslayers in Odense
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It is roughly a month since I came to Denmark to start my PhD, and in this time I have had some opportunities to explore the city ...
tirsdag 16. september 2014
Sunset in Denmark
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Mother, give me the sun! - Ghosts, Henrik Ibsen To be a Norwegian in Denmark requires a lot of adjustment. It means adjusting to new cust...
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