141. Hedenstierna-Jonson and García-Losquiño, Viking Camps: Case Studies and Comparisons

Vikings on the move... or in one place? The vast majority of my writing here is free to read and will remain so, but if you enjoy these sorts of posts, your support on Patreon or as a paying subscriber through WordPress is what subsidises me to write more of them. (Alternately, you can always drop a penny in the bucket through…

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140. Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain

"The air is part of the mountain, which does not come to an end with its rock and its soil. It has its own air; and it is to the quality of its air that is due the endless diversity of its colourings. Brown for the most part in themselves, as soon as we see them clothed in air the hills become blue.

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139. Laura Kinsale, For My Lady’s Heart

Committing to the bit, but very briefly today... The vast majority of my writing here is free to read and will remain so, but if you enjoy these sorts of posts, your support on Patreon or as a paying subscriber through WordPress is what subsidises me to write more of them. (Alternately, you can always drop a penny in the bucket through…

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138. Jessie Mihalik’s Silver and Blood

I keep testing myself against romance novels in the quest to find out what I like about the few of them I like... The vast majority of my writing here is free to read and will remain so, but if you enjoy these sorts of posts, your support on Patreon or as a paying subscriber through WordPress is what subsidises me to write more of them.

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137. Aragorn’s tax policy and other weird shibboleths

Yesterday I found myself diverted by people on Bluesky revisiting the issue of Aragorn's tax policy that George R.R. Martin so memorably quibbled over back in 2014. The vast majority of my writing here is free to read and will remain so, but if you enjoy these sorts of posts, your support on Patreon or as a paying subscriber through…

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136. Catherine M. Cameron’s Captives: How Stolen People Changed the World and Megan Whalen Turner’s The Thief.

Today, captives and thieves, with Catherine M. Cameron's Captives: How Stolen People Changed the World and Megan Whalen Turner's modern classic The Thief. The vast majority of my writing here is free to read and will remain so, but if you enjoy these sorts of posts, your support on Patreon or as a paying subscriber through WordPress is what subsidises me to…

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135. Gruszczyński et al, Viking-Age Trade: Silver, Slaves and Gotland

The traffic in people led to large amounts of wealth in the Viking Age, it seems. The vast majority of my writing here is free to read and will remain so, but if you enjoy these sorts of posts, your support on Patreon or as a paying subscriber through WordPress is what subsidises me to write more of them. (Alternately, you can always drop a penny in the bucket through…

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134. Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

Gorgeous travel writing, but who looks after the kids? The vast majority of my writing here is free to read and will remain so, but if you enjoy these sorts of posts, your support on Patreon or as a paying subscriber through WordPress is what subsidises me to write more of them. (Alternately, you can always drop a penny in the bucket through…

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