Historical Setting: 789 C.E. Jutland The mystery that pricks my imagination just now is the work of the smiðr. I watch him work for a few minutes here, thinking of purpose for his art and I see how this is so much like the work of Celtic monks illuminating the sacred Christian texts. Continue reading “#64.1, Wednesday, January 1, 2025”
Category Archives: Christian History
#63.13, Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Historical Setting: 792 C.E. I ask Marian the question that has been most on my mind, “In the Christian way of counting, what is this year?” Marian tells me she thinks it may be 792 at least for the measure of time in Gaul after the start of time. So, with my strangeContinue reading “#63.13, Tuesday, December 31, 2024”
#63.12, Thurs., Dec. 26, 2024
Historical Setting: An unknown time in a cold land I’m hearing from this girl Marian how life is done in this place. Small as she is, she isn’t able to provide bathwater. And she believes bathing is necessary. The human smell of this place affirms that. So, I can make myself worthy of myContinue reading “#63.12, Thurs., Dec. 26, 2024”
#63.11, Weds., Dec. 25, 2024
Historical Setting: An unknown time in a cold land Back into the woods, I’m searching for more firewood. I find lots of tracks in the snow, and here is that pit trap for large beasts. Fresh blood tells of a beast that was killed here and taken away on a sled – maybe itContinue reading “#63.11, Weds., Dec. 25, 2024”
#63.10, Tues., Dec. 24, 2024
Historical Setting: An unknown time in a cold land The ferocious, tottering man at the door of this house yields his weapon and reaches out to point to his empty woodbin. Repeating the words of the thrall for “heat,” as “heit” and “man,” I’ve been given a name, “Heit-man.” I lay the logs inContinue reading “#63.10, Tues., Dec. 24, 2024”
#63.8, Weds., Dec. 18, 2024
Historical Setting: An unknown time in a cold land It’s late in the day when the men I follow arrive at their village. Here, the houses are clustered together, with a wall of wood planks and the doors facing the sea. The other ends of the houses are nearly buried in the berm ofContinue reading “#63.8, Weds., Dec. 18, 2024”
#63.7, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024
Historical Setting: An unknown time in a cold land I’m keeping my distance following the sled and the men who are transporting a captured woman and the spoils of an attack on the village that was once her home. She is to be a slave, a thrall. She told me all the men ofContinue reading “#63.7, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024”
#63.6, Thurs., Dec. 12, 2024
Historical Setting: An unknown time in a cold land I watch from this distance hiding in the brush as the marauders rescue their chain and lay it limp and lifeless back in the sled. Now Mara is dragged to the sled. How can it be that it was Mara that called out to tellContinue reading “#63.6, Thurs., Dec. 12, 2024”
#63.5, Weds., Dec. 11, 2024
Historical Setting: An unknown time in a cold land Dawn edges between the board slates of this shelter. It is a rosy red streaked morning and foreboding of a stormy winter’s day. I don’t know what I will do with this freedom I’ve gained by loosening the chain. I’m tired and starving andContinue reading “#63.5, Weds., Dec. 11, 2024”
#63.4, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024
Historical Setting: An unknown time in a cold land Considering the chain — The chain is undoubtedly more valuable to my captors than am I. It’s simply the only proof they had that I’d been captured. Maybe the chain was a prize in a raid. Or maybe it was made by their own smiths,Continue reading “#63.4, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024”
Lazarus Ink 