Can't believe I started this project a year ago. I was supposed to be done by now …
But here, I've completed Hagalaz and explained its history and meaning here. #futhark #runes #OldNorse #ScandiMyth
Also, the OE speaks of hail itself being caught & warped by wind, caught in the turnings of Wyrd maybe.
All reflecting what you say in your piece: not an 'evil' thing, just the way things are.
The verse in the Norwegian poem reminds me of Old English Gnomic poems which say 'Wyrd is most powerful, but Christ is more powerful still' (paraphrased from memory). So I wonder if the original made mention of something like Wyrd (or perhaps I should say Urdr?).
There's a case for saying that #HeathenSky should really be #HeathenSkull...
There is a spring named Hvergelmir, where Loki came to drink, and found his nature.
#HeathenSky
The two Ravens 🐦⬛🐦⬛
Hugin and Munin, The Allfather's all seeing Ravens. Never tired of watching what happen on Midgard.
#heathensky #pagan #witchsky #nordic #mythology #raven
Odin didn't always know.
#HeathenSky
Aah! Thank you two-fold! For this, & especially for buying! I'm so thrilled about that. I hope it all worked alright, & that you enjoyed the album. I really appreciate it.
It being Friday, when bandcamp puts its fees aside...
An alliterative poem, recast from Snorri's Edda, for the making of things, Midgard, goddesses, gods, people, heaven & Hel, Loki's children, Baldr's death & the doom of powers. In 9 parts.
#HeathenSky
mathjones.bandcamp.com/album/gylfag...
I've a Ragnarok joke at the end of my set.
I'm now singing Bowie, Suffragette City, in my head :-)
I've made a rough & ready album of poems I wrote in the 1980s, aged 17-25ish.
Some were published. Some were performed in a poetry show. Some are still in my head, ingrained. Funny how these things stick around
#PoetrySky
Free to listen to on bandcamp, here
mathjones.bandcamp.com/album/80s-po...
Thank you 🙂
@valsif.bsky.social
A full colour illustration of spring nature including blossom, bluebells, cowslips, catkins, willow, a daffodil, snowdrops, wood anemones, and buttercups.
I now have a shop again!
tamzincavendish.co.uk
It has art prints, including ones with FSC certified frames.
There are hoodies and T-shirts made with 50% recycled materials.
Plus notebooks, bags, etc.
So my work is now available worldwide again.
#Wildflowers #Nature #Art
It feels so very much between first one thing then another, thinking you recognise, but you don't, shadows not where you thought they were, and altogether its own.
Truly marvellous
Photo of the book cover, for The Honest Forger, new poems & photographs for Iolo Morganwg, from www.cultureanddemocracypress.co.uk. Illustrated with a stained glass design, of a sun, or a flower, radiating warm colours.
This the cover for the new anthology, The Honest Forger...
I am, to my surprise & delight, to be part of this celebration of Iolo Morganwg, on the second centenary of his death.
Organised by Bardic Books, & marked by a new anthology, The Honest Forger.
I've my poem to read & a part in the Druidic blessing.
7 March, 7pm, St. Illtud's, Wales
Thank you! Very much appreciated, and very great fun to do :-)
#PoetsofDoom @sonnetsmith.bsky.social
Text of a poem, full of nonsense words: The flight of the hungalump, by Math Jones. Text reads: The glimp of the pixicleana, & the glike of the horoborosch, Had them flixing together in tempo, Till the hungalump went Bosch! The conductor dropped their pisola! The composer chocked on their flosh! & the orchestra all juckled under, When the hungalump went Bosch!!! This musical contra-coblation Had the classical world all aswash, Still, there followed a standing aplaition For the hungalump going Bosch!!!
With a poem you've written,
it's like you're asking the reader
to hold the other side of it.
#PoetrySky
Here's what may be an even easier read. My free online translation's up to 80% complete, working on finishing the Green Chapel scene.
alliteration.net/poetry/sggk/
Though I am wondering, who are the barons in this?
Whitehall, the window, the platform, the extra vest...?
#HeathenSky #PoetrySky
Just published on bandcamp:
Gylfaginning in Verse
A recasting of Snorri's Prose Edda, source for Old Norse myth, in alliterative verse.
Free to listen to, for now.
Also, Tales of Godhome, by Thorskegga Thorn, pt 1.
mathjones.bandcamp.com/album/gylfag...
It's astonishing to consider the age of some of these now...
The OE Rune Poem, in the users for 'thorn', says 'anfeng ys yfyl': 'to grasp it [the thorn] is evil'. Not something of 'the devil', just something that harms. Harms us with our soft, paddy paws, while other creatures can happily chomp away at it...