[Edit: Check out this post for a couple other "speculative fiction" books in the Christian market] Again I have been given a free book– this time it is an electronic preprint of the new novel in the Firebird series by Kathy Tyers. The new book is called Wind and Shadow– but I have been too [...]
Archive for September, 2011
Kathy Tyers’ Firebird Series
Posted in Book Reviews and Recommendations, Christian Fiction on September 30, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Deviant Art and Prints
Posted in Uncategorized on September 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’m on Deviant Art now! http://callego.deviantart.com/ Prints of my pictures can be bought from there, I believe– I’ve never bought anything from them, but I assume you get a real print mailed to you, rather than permission to print it out. Will let you know when I have more. Meanwhile, I have found a way [...]
Gnomic Beats
Posted in Comics and Drawings, Norse Mythology, Old Norse Philology, Scandinavian Studies on September 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I taught the poem Hávamál (Sayings of the High One–English titles from Larrington’s translation) in my Norse Mythology course today. I hadn’t taught it much previously, because it’s such a tangle for beginning students, but there is some pretty interesting stuff in there. It is the second poem in Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda, [...]
Sketches: Outlaws and Giants and Gods (oh my)
Posted in Comics and Drawings, Norse Mythology, Sagas on September 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Since I don’t seem to have much time to post things these days, I thought I’d put up a few sketches– two used in my slides for my course, and then one doodle of a few of the more ornery saga heroes (plus a character of my own). These are all done in ArtStudio for [...]
