True Romance |
The Edda
II
The Heroic Mythology of the North
By Winifred Faraday, M.A.
Published by David Nutt, at the Sign of the PhSnix, Long Acre, London1902 Page 2
Author's Note
The present study forms a sequel...
Posted by The Famous Coachman on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:11:00 PST |
Ginger |
Grow your own Ginger
The finest ginger root is grown in Jamaica, but that's no reason you shouldn't give it a try.
A ginger plant is easy enough to get started. Just go to the local food market, buy a...
Posted by The Famous Coachman on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:52:00 PST |
Chretien de Troyes |
For anybody interested in the Graal stories it all starts here. There are heaps of good reading @ OMACL.ORG (The Online Medieval & Classical Library).
Monsalvat: the Parsifal home pag...
Posted by The Famous Coachman on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 04:27:00 PST |
Cu' Ba'n an t-Shleibhe |
The White Hound of the Mountain [Cú Bán an t-Shleibhe] (Author: Unknown)
p.152
¶1] There was once a king whose wife died. Before she died, she laid injunctions (geasa) on the king that no man, woman...
Posted by The Famous Coachman on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 02:34:00 PST |
Rabbie Burns |
Tam O' ShanterA Tale1790Type: Poem
"Of Brownyis and of Bogillis full is this Buke." Gawin Douglas. When chapman billies leave the street, And drouthy neibors, neibors, meet; As market days are ...
Posted by The Famous Coachman on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 02:29:00 PST |
Shel Silverstein |
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WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS
There is a ...
Posted by The Famous Coachman on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 06:09:00 PST |
Henri Mashaux |
excerpts from - i am writing to you from a far-off countryby: Henri Mashaux 1889-1984
i.
We have here, she said, only one sun in the month, and for only a little while. We rub our eyes days ahead. B...
Posted by The Famous Coachman on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 06:04:00 PST |
a perfectly good curse, broken |
On may 15, 1812, in what is now the pasture of a farm near Peru, Indiana, Tecumseh built the fire for the last great counsil of the woodland chiefs, his final attempt to organize the tribes of the mid...
Posted by The Famous Coachman on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 07:42:00 PST |
Mangroves |
jumping jack crickets howl with the moon in their sleigh across the vastness. Mangrove monsters are hard at work moving furniture, how they ever got that piano out to the tree house miles f...
Posted by The Famous Coachman on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 04:10:00 PST |
Ghost Gods |
Mourning's birds stretch to the heavens circling earth in a million sunsets. Care as you can, the Gods of time and tide wait for no man. Ceternity chants sacred OM through out/in our theat...
Posted by The Famous Coachman on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:25:00 PST |
