Ask teh runes!!!1
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louiseluxAhem.
I impulse bought them from the British Museum shop, along with King Harald's Saga by Snori Sturluson. It's gripping and fast paced and so far I have got to part 34, where Harald and King Svein of Denmark are about to fight it out over who deserves Denmark more. In this part, I like that there is a court poet known as Thorleik the Handsome. He must've been very very handsome to be known for it.
I also bought Chronicles of the Vikings by RI Page, which I mostly picked because it has a chapter entitled 'the unheroic life' that comes straight after a chapter called 'the heroic life'.
Anyway! I have been practising with the runes (put hand in bag, extract rune, consult little book, feel baffled). Apparently, long distance rune-reading is quite acceptable. Please do feel free to ask them anything you like!! (Answers may not make sense, may contain nuts)
I impulse bought them from the British Museum shop, along with King Harald's Saga by Snori Sturluson. It's gripping and fast paced and so far I have got to part 34, where Harald and King Svein of Denmark are about to fight it out over who deserves Denmark more. In this part, I like that there is a court poet known as Thorleik the Handsome. He must've been very very handsome to be known for it.
I also bought Chronicles of the Vikings by RI Page, which I mostly picked because it has a chapter entitled 'the unheroic life' that comes straight after a chapter called 'the heroic life'.
Anyway! I have been practising with the runes (put hand in bag, extract rune, consult little book, feel baffled). Apparently, long distance rune-reading is quite acceptable. Please do feel free to ask them anything you like!! (Answers may not make sense, may contain nuts)
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Date: 2007-06-13 08:15 pm (UTC)BTW, I'm just going to blatantly state right here and now that your "Ne Me Quitte Pas" is, IMHO, the BEST GOJYO STORY EVER. I've never had the opportunity to tell you that before, so I'm telling you now. It rips my heart up and out in the best possible way, then stitches it back together and replaces it gently in my chest in an impossibly BETTER way. Thank you for writing it.
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Date: 2007-06-14 01:32 am (UTC)It is so beautiful and wonderful on so many levels! ^__^
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Date: 2007-06-14 02:06 pm (UTC)It is so beautiful and wonderful on so many levels! ^__^
That story hit me so hard that, once I finished it, I deliberately had to put it aside and NOT let myself re-read it for quite some time. Because I just could have gotten lost in it (meaning obsessed with it) as it was SO strong and SO powerful. The depiction of Gojyo's pain at being "left" was so real - too real - and terribly, painfully in character. But the growth he gets out of it... what a perfect package of a complex story, one that I couldn't hope to write in my best day.