tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73891981622686478402024-03-12T20:01:52.568-07:00A view from Odin's lost eyeOdin's Lost Eyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18099251704903067894noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7389198162268647840.post-57918564698101703752010-08-10T21:29:00.000-07:002010-08-10T21:49:18.033-07:00Huginn and Muninn, where are you both?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkB6ySE5K6C2N6pu5cDm0tE17PbHMPHqnQVTP8fl_rmMVj99UobFUsXLodj_mfN39YKuXhsCB17vUhKJmSDNTbkkB0lyACguRWoBJJGoUTUsLDgPZeGNe_X9pQZ_w-_mN6ZD3LmpGqHYk/s1600/Odin+and+Hrolf.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkB6ySE5K6C2N6pu5cDm0tE17PbHMPHqnQVTP8fl_rmMVj99UobFUsXLodj_mfN39YKuXhsCB17vUhKJmSDNTbkkB0lyACguRWoBJJGoUTUsLDgPZeGNe_X9pQZ_w-_mN6ZD3LmpGqHYk/s320/Odin+and+Hrolf.JPG" /></a></div><br />
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And so a sliver of sly Odin's wisdom has helped me enter realm of Blog. <br />
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SO what are we doing here and where will this Long Boat of a Blog take us?<br />
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Well, hopefully we'll explore those times that are commonly referred to as the Dark Ages, but to me they are a colourful blaze of activity.<br />
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Viking traders, raiders, explorers, Frankish feudal tyrants, Byzantine's wealth and intrigue, a Spain split between Visigoths and the Moors, everywhere tribes and peoples still not shackled by nationhood, a Church carving chunks of Pagan faith away, much adventure, new smells, foreign sights, and no doubt a big bucketload of despair too. I love this time!<br />
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Some of the books that inspire this devotion:<br />
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The Last English King by Julian Rathbone<br />
The Oathsworn Series by Robert Low<br />
The Saxon Stories by Bernard Cornwell<br />
1066: The year of three battles by F J McLynn <br />
Websites:<br />
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www.godchecker.com/pantheon/norse-mythology.php?deity=ODIN<br />
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www.robert-low.com<br />
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Much more to come, but first some pictures of my growing 28mm warband. For miniature wargamers, it is based for Impetus.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vik Oathsworn get down to business</td></tr>
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