#75.4 Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Historical Setting: Jarrow, 793 C.E. The Lindisfarne raid raised concern throughout the kingdoms for the safety of all of the coastal monasteries.  Wilbert introduces me to Ousbert who serves the king as a military advisor. Ousbert has questions about the raid on Lindisfarne. We step out of the library hall, to talk more freely inContinue reading “#75.4 Tuesday, December 9, 2025”

#67.10, Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Skåne I have to say, having seen the politics of the Frankish bishops manipulating the church, in my life and life again, this worm of greed has also been working to devour the religion from the inside. Maybe Emil’s observation of Christianity is well founded. I’ve been away for a veryContinue reading “#67.10, Tuesday, April 22, 2025”

#48.12, Thurs., Sept. 28, 2023

Historical setting: 602 C.E. The Vosges Mountains          Those who were once hunters will soon be bent into farmers who will have no safety from wars except for a landowner’s castle walls.  The legends haunting the Samhain fires of the dwindling tribes of pagans remember the ghost riders across the sky, the soldiers of TheodoricContinue reading “#48.12, Thurs., Sept. 28, 2023”