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Exhausted from Oversleep

Beth has given me a few eBooks from Amelia Carruthers’ Origins of Fairy Tales from Around the World series as gifts, although I don’t think I’ve written about any of them yet. They each contain multiple versions of a well-known fairy … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Animals, Arabian, Art, Book Reviews, Christianity, Egyptian, Fairy Tales, Magic, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Norse, Religion | Tagged adam and eve, amelia carruthers, andrew lang, bluebeard, brunhilda, charles perrault, dragons, dwarves, liz phair, matakin, medea, nellie mckay, odin, ogres, origins of fairy tales from around the world, prunella, rakshasas, rape, rapunzel, rapunzel and other fair maidens in very tall towers, rudabeh and zal, seven-league boots, siegfried, sigurd, sleeping beauty, sleeping beauty and other tales of slumbering princesses, st. barbara, sun moon and talia, valkyries, vasilisa the fair, volsunga saga |

Nibbles of Nibelungs

Although I’ve been interested in classical mythology for most of my life, it was really Final Fantasy VI that made me want to check out the Teutonic hero Siegfried, a mysterious character in the game possibly intended to be the … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Comics, Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, German, Germany, History, J.R.R. Tolkien, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Norse, Poetry, Video Games | Tagged alberich, andvari, anna russell, attila the hun, brunhilda, burgundians, der ring des nibelungen, donner, dragons, dwarves, fafnir, final fantasy v, final fantasy vi, final fantasy vii, freyja, giants, gibichungs, gilgamesh, gudrun, hagen, huns, idun, ildico, king gunther, king sigebert, kriemhild, loki, marvel comics, mime, nibelheim, nibelungenlied, nibelungs, niflheim, oberon, opera, prose edda, queen brunhilda of austrasia, regin, richard wagner, siegfried, siegmund, sigurd, sinfljoti, snorri sturluson, thor, valhalla, valkyries, volsunga saga, volsungs, worms, xanten |

Sidhe Bop

I’ve been reading a lot recently, but a bit sporadically. There are some library books I want to finish before starting on anything I own. I’m pretty anxious to read more of The Lost Tales of Oz, but I kind … Continue reading →

Posted in Arthurian Legend, Authors, Book Reviews, British, Catholicism, Characters, Christianity, Greek Mythology, History, Magic, Magic Items, Monsters, Mythology, Norse, october daye, Oz, Religion, seanan mcguire | Tagged a glimmer of hope, a wizard in rhyme, beowulf, billina, button-bright, christopher stasheff, crimes against magic, cuttenclips, erik the red, fairies, hellequin chronicles, king arthur, king richard coeur de leon, late eclipses, mordred, polychrome, prose edda, puck, robin hood, saga six pack, san francisco, siegfried, sigurd, snorri sturluson, steve mchugh, the oathbound wizard, the rainbow daughter in oz, trojan war, undines, vikings, volsung saga, weather |

I Want to Ragnarok All Night

I just recently finished reading the Eternals Saga from Marvel’s The Mighty Thor, which originally ran from 1979 through 1980. Comics Recommended gives a good overview of the saga in three parts, but I’m going to say a bit about … Continue reading →

Posted in Astronomy, Authors, Book Reviews, Christianity, Comics, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, Jeff Rester, Magnus Chase, Marcus Mebes, Mythology, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Percy Jackson, Religion, Rick Riordan, Science | Tagged as the rainbow follows the rain, asgard, astrology, athena, axial precession, baldur, bible, brunhilda, celestials, doctor strange, eternals, eternals saga, hela, hermes, jesus, joe bongiorno, krishna, loki, Marvel Cinematic Universe, marvel comics, midgard, mjolnir, odin, oziana, ragnarok, revelation, richard wanger, ring cycle, royal timeline of oz, shiva, siegfried, siegmund, sif, the mighty thor, the sword of summer, thor, valkyries, zeus, zodiac |

If I Could Talk with the Animals

While they can often amount to the same thing in narrative, there’s a clear difference between animals speaking in human language and people being able to understand animal language. Dr. Dolittle is probably the most famous example of the latter, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Mythology, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged ali dubh, comfortable camel, doctor dolittle, doubtful dromedary, elixir of life, fafnir, john dough, john dough and the cherub, king solomon, ozish, para bruin, pittypat the rabbit, polychrome, queen zixi of ix, santa claus, siegfried, the life and adventures of santa claus, the royal book of oz, the tin woodman of oz, tin woodman |

Grazin’ in the Glass

An Oz story I’m working on was inspired partially by a hypothetical beginning of an Oz book that Ruth Plumly Thompson described in an interview reproduced in a Baum Bugle from the 1990s. It refers to a daughter of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Fairy Tales, Greek Mythology, Mythology, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged andrew lang, brothers grimm, brunhilda, hesperides, old rinkrank, siegfried, the baum bugle, the glass mountain, wicked witch of the east |

That’s My Spot

As you may well know, the dragon Smaug in The Hobbit had a completely armored body except for one spot. Bilbo Baggins found out about this weak spot, and a thrush brought the news to a man named Bard, who … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, British, Discworld, J.R.R. Tolkien, Monsters, Mythology, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Terry Pratchett | Tagged beowulf, bilbo baggins, death star, dragons, fafnir, guards! guards!, sergeant fred colon, siegfried, sigurd, smaug, star wars, the hobbit |

Posted in German, History, Middle Ages, Monarchy, Mythology, Norse | Tagged brunhilda, brunhilda of austrasia, grimhild, gudrun, gunnar, kremhild, niebelungenlied, odin, richard wagner, ring cycle, siegfried, sigebert of austrasia, sigurd, valkyries |