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.