Historical Setting: At sea, around Anglia, 794 C.E. We are sailing on a northeast wind straight into a storm this night, and neither of us has traveled this way to recognize if this shadow of a distant land is the turning place, or just a dark cloud over this very wide bay. Cloothar finds thisContinue reading “#80.6 Thursday, May 14, 2026”
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#80.5 Wednesday, May 13, 2026
Historical Setting: At sea, 794 C.E. Following the shoreline, we seem to have reached either a wide bay or open sea. Cloothar believes it a bay and we will shorten our journey to cut across. I’m on this rower’s seat, the empty chest with Cloothar’s dream to fill it with the trade of the stinkyContinue reading “#80.5 Wednesday, May 13, 2026”
#80.4 Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Historical Setting: At sea, 794 C.E. I’m staying with the boat at the Ludonwec market port while Cloothar explores the city. While waiting here, I’ve discovered he keeps a chest of coins under the heap of black moldy monk’s robes he intends to sell in Iona. But I think he meant to keep me fromContinue reading “#80.4 Tuesday, May 12, 2026”
#80.3 Thursday, May 7, 2026
Historical Setting: sailing at the mouth of a river, 794 C.E. We are following a wide river from its mouth at the sea, upstream to a place Cloothar believes will be an established market in an old Roman city — Ludenwic — it has a name. This river does seem more marked with houses andContinue reading “#80.3 Thursday, May 7, 2026”
#80.2 Wednesday, May 6, 2026
Historical Setting: London, 794 C.E. These weeks are mostly spent rowing, rarely sailing along the wooded coast of Anglia. This journey seems to yield little in new markets for Cloothar. Yet we make our stops on land wherever he catches a glimpse of fishing buoys or a whaft of smoke rising, marking the presence ofContinue reading “#80.2 Wednesday, May 6, 2026”
#80.1 Tuesday, May 5, 2026
Historical Setting: The Eastern Coast of Anglia, 794 C.E. Setting out with Cloothar, I know this fellow’s purpose is the market yield. Always used clothing needs airing, not cleaning. I planned to travel to Iona on the other side of this island of Anglia. Like Lindisfarne, Iona is an island monastery. Most would travel betweenContinue reading “#80.1 Tuesday, May 5, 2026”
#79.14 Thursday, April 30, 2026
Historical Setting: Jarrow, 794 C.E. I’m not sure I need a merchant to fill my emptiness. My spiritual need isn’t like a cloak or a hat. I am missing the thin places, or the beautiful window where I meet God. It’s Cloothar who tells me of Iona, a monastery founded by the Irish that isContinue reading “#79.14 Thursday, April 30, 2026”
#79.13 Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Historical Setting: Jarrow, 794 C.E. Weaponry and wars make no happy endings, because there are no endings, just changes in populations and power structures. But, of course, mortals, by the very nature of mortality, draw conclusions, set goals of completion, grope after legacy and prepare for whatever afterlife their religion dictates. No mortal person hasContinue reading “#79.13 Wednesday, April 29, 2026”
#79.12 Tuesday, April 28, 2026
Historical Setting: Jarrow, 794 C.E. The Viking raid on Jarrow was swift and the tragedy was mostly on the Vikings’ side. All of the preparations for attack worked: the rocks across the river at the place of the tidal rise; the guards hidden in monk’s clothes; the swords and daggers sprinkled throughout Jarrow. Lindisfarne’s painfulContinue reading “#79.12 Tuesday, April 28, 2026”
#79.11 Thursday, April 23, 2026
Historical Setting: Jarrow, 794 C.E. At matins I chanted with the monks. Now in the full light of dawn, I walk with the monk-clad guards from the river to their posts at the sea. The tide is high and the river into the sea is roiling and deep. The heap of rocks that become theContinue reading “#79.11 Thursday, April 23, 2026”
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