Comments on: RSS Feedback Loop http://grelmar.com/2006/11/01/rss-feedback-loop/ With all the subtlety of a Viking in an Irish Monastary Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:53:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: vkaryl http://grelmar.com/2006/11/01/rss-feedback-loop/comment-page-1/#comment-31 vkaryl Sat, 16 Dec 2006 23:44:18 +0000 http://grelmar.com/?p=16#comment-31 Got it! The Book of Kells, by Roberta A. MacAvoy.... and y'know, I'd forgotten about her Tea With the Black Dragon, and Twisting the Rope titles too.... Got it! The Book of Kells, by Roberta A. MacAvoy…. and y’know, I’d forgotten about her Tea With the Black Dragon, and Twisting the Rope titles too….

]]> By: vkaryl http://grelmar.com/2006/11/01/rss-feedback-loop/comment-page-1/#comment-30 vkaryl Sat, 16 Dec 2006 00:28:00 +0000 http://grelmar.com/?p=16#comment-30 Ah - those historical refs will get me every time! One of the best fantasies I ever read was set in maybe about that time period.... I think it was RA McEvoy, but not sure of the title (loaned the books, never got them back, you know how that goes.....) - tracing the patterns on a Celtic cross.... Ah – those historical refs will get me every time! One of the best fantasies I ever read was set in maybe about that time period…. I think it was RA McEvoy, but not sure of the title (loaned the books, never got them back, you know how that goes…..) – tracing the patterns on a Celtic cross….

]]> By: grelmar http://grelmar.com/2006/11/01/rss-feedback-loop/comment-page-1/#comment-29 grelmar Fri, 15 Dec 2006 12:22:49 +0000 http://grelmar.com/?p=16#comment-29 Well, it's a historical reference. "The monastery of Lindisfarne was founded by Irish born Saint Aidan... around AD 635." "In 793 a Viking raid on Lindisfarne caused much consternation throughout the Christian west, and is now often taken as the beginning of the age of Viking raids. A very famous passage in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle reads: "In this year fierce, foreboding omens came over the land... There were excessive whirlwinds, lightning storms, and fiery dragons were seen flying in the sky. These signs were followed... [by] the ravaging of heathen men [who] destroyed God's church at Lindesfarne."" AFAIK, the Vikings never raided any Irish nunneries. Well, it’s a historical reference.

“The monastery of Lindisfarne was founded by Irish born Saint Aidan… around AD 635.”

“In 793 a Viking raid on Lindisfarne caused much consternation throughout the Christian west, and is now often taken as the beginning of the age of Viking raids. A very famous passage in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle reads:

“In this year fierce, foreboding omens came over the land… There were excessive whirlwinds, lightning storms, and fiery dragons were seen flying in the sky. These signs were followed… [by] the ravaging of heathen men [who] destroyed God’s church at Lindesfarne.”"

AFAIK, the Vikings never raided any Irish nunneries.

]]> By: vkaryl http://grelmar.com/2006/11/01/rss-feedback-loop/comment-page-1/#comment-28 vkaryl Fri, 15 Dec 2006 01:44:20 +0000 http://grelmar.com/?p=16#comment-28 Huh.... y'know, while I'm not into information as a drug etc. I did just "re-look" at your blog description: "about as subtle as a Viking in an Irish monastery" (which btw you've minorly misspelled....) - and it strikes me that it would make more sense rephrased as "about as subtle as a Viking in an Irish nunnery" - unless of course you're into male sexual partnerships.... (though I did think your wife was female, goddess knows I could be wrong!) Huh…. y’know, while I’m not into information as a drug etc. I did just “re-look” at your blog description: “about as subtle as a Viking in an Irish monastery” (which btw you’ve minorly misspelled….) – and it strikes me that it would make more sense rephrased as “about as subtle as a Viking in an Irish nunnery” – unless of course you’re into male sexual partnerships…. (though I did think your wife was female, goddess knows I could be wrong!)

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