Saplings in time: A Heathen Tale

Harvest — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 06:37:58 +0000

More than any others in my piece these lines unify and express the theme of genius loci – spirit of place – and they do so, significantly, both in terms of the central Victorian landscape and my Northern European spiritual heritage. For if Germanic Heathenism, the religion of the god Woden, originated in one land, Northern Europe, then naturally it will be a religion replete with Northern European associations. Indeed, natural and desirable spiritual evolution notwithstanding, the entire form and content of the religion are ideally derived from this source. How far can we, or should we, nativise our religion in Australia? There is something complex, problematic, and interesting when North meets South. What happens when opposites meet? When fire and ice clash and intermingle is there creation or destruction, or both? Is there a possibility of a marriage ...

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Review: Beowulf & Grendel: The Truth Behind England’s Oldest Legend (John Grigsby)

Reviews — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:05:33 +0000

The poem known to us today as Beowulf has been something of an enigma since it first began to receive serious scholarly attention almost two hundred years ago. That it survived into the modern era at all is nothing short of miraculous, but many of the allusions contained within the text would seem to suggest that it is the sole surviving component of a much larger ...

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Saplings in time: A Heathen Tale

Review: Beowulf & Grendel: The Truth Behind England’s Oldest Legend (John Grigsby)