One of the truly alarming things in life is stumbling across something you’ve written that has been re-published by someone else without attribution. I run into that all the time because I’ve been doing this so long. A while back, I had someone contact me through Findagrave.com to suggest I add a biography to Katharine (Helvey) Roberson. The text they gave me was word-for-word...
Yesterday I wrote a bit about Doggerland, and that led to mentioning Hyperborean Apollo, and that led to a bit more research because Apollo is one of my enduring interests. I have a bit about Hyperborean Apollo at Greco-Roman Lore. primarily taken from Robert Graves, Greek Myths § 161.4. I think it might be worth quoting Diodorus Siculus’ passage about Hyperborea. “Now for our part...
There’s an area of land under the North Sea that was above water thousands of years ago, connecting what is now Great Britain and Denmark. The sea is relatively shallow in this area. Fishermen have dragged up remains of land animals and prehistoric tools. It’s been called the British Atlantis, but its formal name is Doggerland, after the Dogger Bank. Now switch gears. Mitochondrial...
The Up Helly Aa Song (with lyrics)
And, just in case you don’t know what I’m talking about: What the Helly Aa? (Your guide to Shetland’s Up Helly Aa fire festivals).
“An entry in a late sixteenth-century register has revealed that a ship known as “William” of Aberdeen made a voyage to “the new fund land” (Newfoundland) in 1596. It is the earliest documented reference to a Scottish ship sailing to North America.“ “Historian discovers earliest evidence of a Scottish ship sailing to North America“, Medievalists.net (Dec. 2018). This...