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Easy Camelot, Easy Ganelon

Yeah, I’m writing about books again. The Bright Sword: A Novel of King Arthur, by Lev Grossman – I wasn’t sure what to expect of this modern take on the Arthurian legend, but I ended up quite liking it, despite … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Arthurian Legend, Book Reviews, British, Christianity, England, Fairy Tales, History, Humor, Islam, Judaism, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion, Slavic, Technology, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged avalon, bazonga bird, camelot, chernobog, demons, eleggua, fairies, ganelon, geoffrey of monmouth, gondwane, king arthur, king constantine of britain, knights of the round table, lev grossman, lin carter, lord of shadows, maya and the return of the godlings, merlin, morgan le fay, naomi novik, nimue, orishas, paganism, roger zelazny, round table, rumplestiltskin, sir bedivere, sir dagonet, sir dinadan, sir mordred, sir palomides, sky island, spinning silver, staryk, terra magica, the bright sword, the wand of gamelon, the warrior of world's end, yama yama land |

I See Noom and Noom Sees Me

Lost in the Moment and Found, by Seanan McGuire – The books in this series change between being about the magical lands in which various children find themselves and about how they deal with their experiences afterwards. As with some … Continue reading →

Posted in Arabian, Art, Arthurian Legend, Authors, Book Reviews, British, Christianity, Diana Wynne Jones, Fairy Tales, Food, Greek Mythology, History, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Ray Powell, Relationships, Religion, seanan mcguire, Toys, Wayward Children | Tagged a.s. byatt, andrew lang, arabian nights, avalon, bible, blaise, brothers grimm, cugel the clever, cugel's saga, dragon's breath, dragons, epic of gilgamesh, epitaph, geoffrey of monmouth, gode's story, graeae, guinevere, howl's moving castle, in an absent dream, jack vance, jane yolen, jinn, johnny gruelle, king arthur, king solomon, lost in the moment and found, merlin, merlin's booke, moon, nimue, prince prigio, queen of sheba, raggedy andy, raggedy ann, st. paul, sword of the rightful king, the canterbury tales, the djinn in the nightingale's eye, the dragon's boy, the dying earth, the eldest princess, the glass coffin, the magical land of noom, the raggedys in oz, the sword and the stone, the young merlin trilogy, three thousand years of longing, wizards |

That Vodou That Yo Dou So Well

The Hollow Places, by T. Kingfisher – When a woman named Kara is going through a divorce, she moves in with her uncle, a conspiracy-minded man who doesn’t believe in evolution until he figures he needs to in order to … Continue reading →

Posted in Arthurian Legend, Authors, Book Reviews, British, Dreams, Language, Magic, Mythology, Names, october daye, Poetry, Prejudice, Relationships, Religion, seanan mcguire, Voodoo | Tagged a song below water, algernon blackwood, ambrosius aurelianus, bethany c. morrow, bigfoot, changelings, fairies, falconry, gargoyles, geoffrey of monmouth, hobby, horror, jane yolen, king arthur, lady of the lake, luidaeg, merlin, myrddin, night and silence, oberon, passager, racism, selkies, sirens, suffer a sea-change, t. kingfisher, tam lin, the hollow places, the quarter storm, the willows, the young merlin trilogy, veronica g. henry, vita merlini, vivien, wizards |

Follow the Arrow

Sculpture by John Raimondi Abaris the Hyperborean is one of those mysterious magicians who shows up in multiple sources, and has led to additional speculation and apocryphal stories in more recent times. He was first mentioned in Archaic Greek texts, He is … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, British, Comics, Dragon Quest, Greek Mythology, Greek Philosophy, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Neil Gaiman, Philosophy, Poetry, Religion, Video Games | Tagged abaris the hyperborean, abhras, anacharsis, apollo, arimaspea, arimaspoi, aristeas of proconnesus, asclepius, athens, belial, bladud, boreas, constellations, croesus, cyclopes, demons, divination, dragon quest ii, druids, geoffrey of monmouth, griffins, herodotus, hyperborea, iamblicus, john wood the elder, north wind, phalaris, pindar, plato, pythagoras, ravens, sagittarius, sandman, satan, scythia, solon of athens, thrace, zalmoxis, zarlox |

Angling for the Saxons

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s idea for an America First Caucus based on Anglo-Saxon values sounds kind of bizarre to those of us who don’t run in white supremacist circles. Like, why Anglo-Saxon in particular, and why would a group focusing on … Continue reading →

Posted in Arthurian Legend, Authors, British, Celtic, Colonization of America, England, Ethnicity, Etymology, History, J.R.R. Tolkien, Language, Lewis Carroll, Monarchy, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Norse, Politics, Prejudice, Roman Empire, United Kingdom | Tagged america first, angles, anglo-saxon attitudes, britons, dragons, english, geoffrey of monmouth, hengest, historia regum britanniae, horsa, jutes, king alfred the great, king arthur, king vortigern, marjorie taylor greene, mary rambaran-olm, merlin, nationalism, normans, odin, picts, racism, robin hood, rowena, saxons, through the looking-glass, time magazine, vikings |

Guinevere Out of Control

Arthurian literature hasn’t often been kind to Arthur’s wife Guinevere, presenting her as having an ongoing affair with his favorite knight, sometimes even goading him into it when he doesn’t really want to go against the king. It’s pretty much … Continue reading →

Posted in Arthurian Legend, British, England, History, Magic, Mythology, Relationships, Welsh | Tagged absalom, adultery, battle of camlann, bible, cywyrd of gwent, false guinevere, geoffrey of monmouth, gians, gogfran gawr, gwenhwyfach, gwythyr ap greidawl, incest, infidelity, jenny jump, king arthur, king constantine of dumnonia, king david, king leodegrance of cameliard, queen guinevere, sir bertholai, sir lancelot, sir mordred, t.h. white, the once and future king, tower of london, triads of the island of britain, vulgate cycle, welsh triads |

Knight Time Is the Right Time

The King Arthur Collection – I’ve been reading this one on and off for about a year and a half. It’s long, but worth reading. There are six separate works included, as well as some background information about the historicity … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Arthurian Legend, Authors, Book Reviews, British, Christianity, England, Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, History, J.R.R. Tolkien, Magic, Mythology, Poetry, Religion, Roman Empire, Video Games | Tagged a connecticut yankee in king arthur's court, alfred lord tennyson, baba yaga, camelot, charlton miner lewis, dolorous stroke, emperor magnus maximus, fisher king, garland, garlon, gawayne and the green knight, geoffrey of monmouth, holy grail, idylls of the king, jesus, john william waterhouse, joseph of arimathea, king arthur, king arthur and his knights, king arthur and the knights of the round table, lady of shalott, lady of the lake, le morte d'arthur, lucius tiberius, mark twain, maude radford warren, queen guinevere, round table, siege perious, sir balan, sir balin, sir galahad, sir gareth, sir gawain, sir jame knowles, sir lancelot, sir thomas malory, spear of destiny, the hobbit, the king arthur collection, vasilisa the fair |

Good Knight, Sleep Tight

SPOILER WARNING, especially for The Yellow Knight of Oz Ruth Plumly Thompson introduced the character of Sir Hokus of Pokes in her first Oz book, The Royal Book of Oz, and he quickly became a standard part of the royal … Continue reading →

Posted in Arthurian Legend, British, Characters, John R. Neill, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged anachronism, corabia, corumbia, cowardly lion, don quixote, dorothy gale, dragons, geoffrey of monmouth, giants, kabumpo in oz, king arthur, knights of the round table, ozma, pokes, prince corum of corumbia, princess marygolden of corabia, samandra, sir hokus of pokes, sultan of samandra, t.h. white, the cowardly lion of oz, the gnome king of oz, the lost king of oz, the once and future king, the royal book of oz, the wishing horse of oz, the yellow knight of oz |

Land of Dairy Milk Bars and Honey

Tonight, I’m going to take a look at British Israelism, the movement popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that insisted the British were descended from refugees from Israel. This was essentially a way to be pro-Semitic and … Continue reading →

Posted in Arthurian Legend, British, Christianity, Conspiracy Theories, England, Ethnicity, History, Judaism, Language, Middle East, Mythology, Religion | Tagged aeneas, beli mawr, bran the blessed, british israelism, bron, brutus of britain, cimmerians, conan the barbarian, dan, elaine of escalot, emperor constantine, enygeus, ephraim, fisher king, geoffrey of monmouth, glastonbury, heli, house of tudor, igraine, ireland, israel, jeremiah, jerusalem, jesus, john of glastonbury, joseph of arimathea, judah, king arthur, king coel, king henry vii of england, king james i of england, king leir, king uther pendragon, king zedekiah of judah, lost ten tribes, nebuchadnezzar, pellas, robert e. howard, scota, scotland, sir galahad, sir lancelot, sir percival, t.h. white, tea tephi, the once and future king, william blake |

How Do You Make a King Lear?

Fool, by Christopher Moore – This is basically a comic retelling of Shakespeare’s King Lear from the point of view of the Fool, whom Moore names Pocket. I hadn’t actually read Lear before, so I did in preparation for the … Continue reading →