Category Archives: French

Roland in the Deep

Posted on January 24, 2023 by Nathan

I think I first heard of Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso in a blurb about C.S. Lewis comparing J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings to it. Well, they do both have a magic ring that makes people invisible, and a monster … Continue reading →

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Drawn Into Divine Drama

Posted on August 21, 2021 by Nathan

I’ve had some of these book reviews already written for a while, and I’ve finished a few more books, so I think it’s time to put the finishing touches on this post. City of the Plague God, by Sarwat Chadda … Continue reading →

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I Have Seen the Sleeping Knights of Jesus

Posted on August 30, 2016 by Nathan

As I mentioned in my review, Alan Garner’s Alderley Edge fantasies incorporate a local legend about sleeping knights. The story has it that a farmer from Mobberley set out to Macclesfield to sell a horse. An old man near the … Continue reading →

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Ys Into It

Posted on July 2, 2016 by Nathan

One myth I’d heard of before and didn’t really know any of the details was that of Ys (pronounced like “ease”), sometimes called Ker-Ys, a sunken city in Brittany, France. Picture by Laura Csajagi There’s a series of video games … Continue reading →

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Tales and Tails

Posted on September 3, 2012 by Nathan

This week’s myth begins with a fairy named Pressyne, who lived in a forest during the Crusades. When Elynas, the King of Scotland, found this fairy, he proposed marriage to her. She agreed, but only on the condition that he … Continue reading →

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