My Albion
A chronicle of sundry adventures in England.
torsdag 31. oktober 2019
A Danish hell
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Halloween is approaching, and even though I - as a Norwegian having grown up in the late '80s and early '90s - have no proper emot...
mandag 28. oktober 2019
An autumnal view
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This term I'm working in Växjö, Sweden, my first residence in Sweden and my first encounter with the Swedish autumn. There is much tha...
lørdag 26. oktober 2019
Panteísmo - a poem by Juana de Ibarbourou
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This autumn I happened to become acquainted with the poetry of Uruguayan poet Juana de Ibarbourou (1895-1979). It was all a matter of chan...
tirsdag 8. oktober 2019
Canaan's grapes in Denmark
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And speaking to them and to all the multitude, they shewed them the fruits of the land - Numbers, 13:27 In the Book of Numbers, chapte...
søndag 29. september 2019
Saint Michael in Segovia, a modern medieval knight
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In my previous blogpost I ruminated briefly on the iconography on Saint Michael the Archangel for the occasion of today being Michaelmas, a...
lørdag 28. september 2019
Saint Michael in Roskilde
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Today, September 29, is the feast of Saint Michael the Archangel. Saint Michael is a popular figure in medieval Christian art, where he is...
torsdag 26. september 2019
Utopia - a poem by Wisława Szymborska
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One of my fascinations is how people imagine their ideal societies, their utopias, and I have a particular soft spot for stories that fles...
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