I recently took an "internet trip" down the bills of rights, #MagnaCarta, etc.
I realized that there is much more to it than is usually taught. It got too much, so I dropped it eventually.
(I think I was trying to track down the first bill that awarded the right to vote 🗳 in #AngloSaxon culture.)
10 Mar 1641: John Selden, jurist, defends bishops being in parliament using #Anglosaxon precedents #otd but the House of #Commons decides on their abolition anyway (NPG/BM)
A new track from my up-coming album about the old gods and the magic of the year; each song will come with a short story about it. I am hoping to produce a physicals book and some form of physical media for the music.
Tomorrow I am sitting down with my vocalist to go through the first 5 songs and maybe lay down some demo tracks.
This song is about the Fox King, Rædgiefa -- The Giver of Good Counsel. It is said that he comes to those that need him, not when they seek him.
He spreads the deep magics of the Old Gods and protects the wisdom of ages gone. He protects the sacred burial site of the last British Pagan King, Arwald, where he rest until needed again on the Isle of Wight.
This is a song written for Mōdraniht -- Celebrated on or around the 25th December in honour of the three great mother goddesses -- Frigg, Hreða and Éostre.
I know I’ve quiet, but I’ve been working on a concept album for the magic year for the Jutish / Anglo / Saxon people. I have just finished the music for Mōdraniht — Mother’s Night (tonight) where we celebrate the great mother goddesses: Frigg, Hreða and Éostre.
Æþelðryþe, daughter of #King Anna, was married twice & twice bargained with her husbands to remain chaste.
She managed to become a #nun & the picture of healthy living. She ate only one meal a day & bathed only cold. She did make exceptions for both on holidays.
When she got a swelling on her neck, she laughed that it was punishment for wearing too many necklaces in her youth.
Listening to book about the Norman conquest. It’s comical how many people conveniently and out of the blue drop dead in mid 11th century France and England. Often just after an innocent cup of wine.
Welcome to Autumn
In early medieval Anglo-Saxon calendars, August 7 is the first day of autumn.
We are halfway between the summer solstice and the autumnal equinox.
In Old English autumn is hærfest, and the beginning of autumn coincides with the beginning of the harvest: August 1 was Lammas, the 'feast of bread', the earliest festival of the wheat harvest when loaves made from the first corn were blessed.
Researchers reconstruct lifestyle and face of 7th-century Anglo-Saxon teen
Dr. Leggett said, "She must have known that she was important and she had to carry that on her shoulders. Her isotopic results match those of two other women who were similarly buried on beds in this period in Cambridgeshire."
‘A Historical Introduction to English Law: Genesis of the Common Law’, my new textbook from Cambridge University Press for new law students, is out soon.
English speakers know that their language is odd. So do people saddled with learning it non-natively. The oddity that we all perceive most readily is its spelling, which is indeed a nightmare. In countries where English isn’t spoken, there is no such thing as a ‘spelling bee’ competition. For a normal language, spelling at least pretends a basic correspondence to the way people pronounce the words. But English is not normal.
#Reagan Adviser Warned Free #College Would Create a Dangerous “Educated Proletariat”
...#RogerFreeman, who also worked for #Nixon, revealed the right’s motivation for coming decades of attacks on higher education."
ah, I see. It is a problem intrinsic to interest-bearing loans then, that you are addressing.
I am not familiar with the #UK, but in the #US, due to exploding college fees and stagnant real incomes over the last decades, the same is true for college graduates.
I know that #nurses in #Anglosaxon countries are often not going through #apprenticeships but have a college degree. I also know they are allowed to do more of a "doctor's job" IDK about relative pay...