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Beowulf: A Verse Translation from the Anglo-Saxon, 2021
Andrew B. F. Carnabuci 🇬🇧
10.03.2026 09:00
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"Hearken"
Beowulf: A Verse Translation from the Anglo-Saxon, 2021
Andrew B. F. Carnabuci 🇬🇧
Thor (wearing a winged helmet) attempts to drain a huge drinking horn - he doesn’t realise that the end of the horn is in the sea. Two giants look on amused. Text- Thor took a deep draught. To his surprise the horn seemed almost as full as before. He drank again, and this time thought he had emptied it. But it was still nearly as full, and Thor became angry. He took a third pull and drank till his breath failed him; but even then he saw that only a small part of the contents had gone.
#myths
The giants challenge Thor to a drinking contest. He is tricked into trying to drain the ocean. He doesn’t succeed but his mighty draughts do produce the tides. Delightful illustration from Newnes Pictorial Knowledge (1936)
With huge thanks to @pablovich.bsky.social for standing in as host, here's me on what The Magic Roundabout is and why I love it so much.
timworthington.org/2025/05/08/t...
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a rusty crane on the edge of a cliff. this is Portland Bill in Dorset. On a bright but cold / windy day.
Haven't shared this one for a while, recorded in April 2022.
At the edge of a craggy rock promontory, near the giant lighthouse, there's strong sea wind, and an old rusted crane.
Episode 121 - On Portland Bill (30 mins)
> www.podbean.com/ew/pb-uh932-...
UK democracy in action.
Thousands of unpaid carers prosecuted for inadvertently breaching benefit rules.
No Post Office exec prosecuted for false prosecutions of postmasters.
In 2017, 72 people died in Grenfell fire. Execs “deliberately concealed” the fire risks of cladding. No one prosecuted.
"Listen!"
Beowulf, 1968
Kevin Crossley-Holland 🇬🇧
Atmospheric black and white photo of a ruined castle, on top of cliffs over looking the sea, with dark clouds above.
Storm clouds approach Dunskey Castle. Said to be haunted by a ghostly piper and a servant girl, plus home to a brownie known as The Hairy Man, the castle's clifftop, wave-lashed location has seen turbulent times.
#blackandwhitephotography #Scotland #Galloway #SouthernScotland
Standing bug talks to man wearing a suit across cloth covered table, has one leg of some kind of tea cosy, tea cabin table, patterned carpet floor, illustration
Hello Tuesday.
'I am the Bahum Bug,' it declared. Edward Gorey.
British/African cuckoos are on the move again! Tracked thanks to @btobirds.bsky.social. Happy to see this early sign of Spring.
"Listen"
The Adventures of Beowulf, 1999
David Breeden 🇺🇸
Black and white of a night scene showing a bright streetlamp illuminating fog over the silhouette of a parked car and blurred houses.
Misty evening..
plamp
- Brutal Land -
Festival Drayton Centre. Market Drayton
Now open .. all welcome!
www.festivaldraytoncentre.com/index.php
Toads
Forever unrequited. What could a 160million years old geological formation possibly see in me?
No one plays a finer sgt major than Harry Andrews
Superb acting and outstanding cinematography, but a very bleak plot.
a collection of owls arranged in yin and yang formation, i.e. one with head turned to the right, with one eye showing, the 2nd owl in the circle upside down and facing towards the first owl, also one eye showing prominantly. There are also some stylized blossom with five petals. Linedrawing, black and white, Maria Strutz
Owl Yin Yang for #OwlishMonday 🤍🌀🖤
One of the best.
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My favourite Limestone. In the Cotswolds it was laid down in tropical shallow seas 140-210 million years ago.
I adore it but it never seems to notice me 💔
Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Jack Watson, Roy Kinnear, Ian Hendry, Michael Redgrave, Ossie Davis, Ian Bannen. What more could you ask for?
Brian Blessed & the great Jack Watson are in there too.
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They are all available on line & well worth watching
youtu.be/MeIRp4WMc_I?...
*Such* a tale! Sublime - magic & yearning and utterly real and a gut punch all at once. Wow. Recomnended.
Arthur of the Britons. I remember rushing home from school to watch this. A re-telling of the Arthur myth with a cast of about 20. HTV did many excellent and inventive dramas like this. An unbeatable theme tune by Elmer Bernstein to boot.
Play loud.
youtu.be/q3MhU_skRHw?..
