#Tim Severin

[ninja-muse]

475, 813?

Diary of a Pilgrimage by Jerome K. Jerome - I loved Three Men in a Boat so much I added everything Jerome wrote to my TBR in one go.

The Sinbad Voyage by Tim Severin - I read a couple Tim Severin books when I was a preteen and loved the combination of travel and mythology. Again, added the rest of his books to my TBR as soon as I found out about them—and one day, I swear I'll even read them!

Thanks for asking!

Ask me things!

#answered asks #the tbr list of doom #diary of a pilgrimage #jerome k. jerome #sinbad voyage #tim severin

[gailyinthedark]

Another book appreciation post, this one inspired by @ltwilliammowett's medieval sailing posts. It's about the author's recreation of a legendary 6th-century voyage, not knowing how much of the original account was even reliable. One of the most fascinating books I've ever read, it's been years and I still think about it daily. Includes a leather boat, an island of birds, sea monsters, Irish monks, legends come unexpectedly to life, and humans being human in the coolest of ways.

#history #seafaring #brendan the navigator #dead besties #middle ages #the brendan voyage #tim severin

[antichrstar]

Siouxsie & The Banshees from their music video for “Dear Prudence”, shot in Venice, Italy / Dir by Tim Pope (1983)

#tim pope #siouxsie and the banshees #siouxsie sioux #post punk #robert smith #the cure #budgie #steven severin

[the-gershomite]

The Savage Sword of Conan the Barbarian #15 October 1976

A Portfolio of Robert E. Howard

Solomon Kane by Howard Chaykin

Conan by John Buscema

“Worms of the Earth” by Tim Conrad

Red Sonja by John Byrne

King Kull by Severin

Almuric by Tim Conrad

#The Savage Sword of Conan the Barbarian #comic art #Robert E. Howard #Howard Chaykin #John Buscema #Tim Conrad #John Byrne #Severin

[dirtyriver]

"A Portfolio of Robert E. Howard", Savage Sword of Conan #15, October 1976, art by Howard Chaykin, John Buscema, Tim Conrad, John Byrne, and Marie and John Severin

#Comics #Conan #Solomon Kane #King Kull #Almuric #Red Sonja #John Buscema #Howard Chaykin #John Severin #Marie Severin #Tim Conrad #John Byrne #Robert E. Howard

[equatorjournal]

Argo's crew cleaning the hull of the galley in the clear waters of Oxbelly Bay, in the Peloponese, 1984. Photo by Kevin Flemming. "The voyage of Odysseus posed one of the most tantalising riddles in history: was Homer's Odyssey entirely imaginary? or did Ulysses make a real voyage home from the siege of Troy to Ithaca? Did Scylla and Charybdis and the Cyclops really exist in any form? Tim Severin uses his replica of a Bronze Age galley to follow the clues which lead to a startling solution to the puzzle. According to legend, Ulysses was nine years on his homeward journey, and over the centuries historians, classicists and archaeologists alike have tried to make sense of his wanderings. Every place that Homer mentions has been identified differently and no two investigators agree on all locations. Ulysses' logical homeward route has been put to the practical test in a faithful replica of the type of ship used in Ulysses' era, and sailed by the rules of navigation of the time. Tim Severin overturns all the orthodox theories, and in a remarkable series of discoveries charts the likely position of the Clashing Rocks, reveals where the cave of the legendary Cyclops would have been, and establishes the origins of Ulysses' adventures." From "The Ulysses voyage: sea search for the Odyssey" by Timothy Severin, 1987. https://www.instagram.com/p/CeZDU3nNB2d/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[whatthecrowtold]

#unhallowedarts - Brendan's Uncanny Journey into the Unknown

‘O! tell me, father, for I loved you well, if still you have words for me, of things strange in the remembering in the long and lonely sea, of islands by deep spells beguiled where dwell the Elven-kind: in seven long years the road to Heaven or the Living Land did you find?’ (J.R.R. Tolkien, “The Death of St. Brendan”)

Kathleen Neely for A. B. Jackson's "The Voyage of St. Brendan" (2021)

It might be a bad case of “the grass is always greener on the other side” or just curiosity and a yearning to know what might be beyond the horizon of the broad Atlantic that washed upon their beaches, but it is the Gaels and the Britons, of all the Celtic people, the Insular Celts, who have the strongest tradition of tales about mythical islands and lost underwater kingdoms. Lyonesse west of the Scilly Islands in the Arthurian tradition, Ys off Brittany, the “Welsh Atlantis” of Cantre’r Gwaelod and the Irish legends of Tír Tairngire and Tír na nÓgm, whole Otherworlds and Happy Hunting Grounds out in the ocean and, of course, Hy-Brasil, an island cloaked in mist except for one day every seven years, that became the namesake of Brazil centuries later, to name but a few. A typical hero quest of Insular Celtic tradition was the voyage, by ship or magic horse, out there where adventure was awaiting and to return a better man or not at all. The motif of reaching the Great Beyond by ship was taken up by Irish monks in the early Middle Ages and transformed into Saints’ voyages to some Paradise or the other located west of Ireland, a type of tale called simply “immram”, voyage, and the most popular of the immrama is certainly that of St Brendan.

Whether or not the Blessed Brendan had founded Clonfert Cathedral in Galway in 563, usually named as the only historically secured feat of his vita, his tale, written down probably as late as the 10th century, became a long running hit in medieval literature with an impact history that lasted well into the Age of Exploration. The author or authors of Brendan’s travel story did, admittedly, their best to spin a whale of a tale that does not have to shun comparison with Coleridge’s “Ancient Mariner”. With elements of old legends, hell visions, probable early discoveries like the volcanoes of Iceland or places like the Faroe Islands, Greenland or Newfoundland, before Eric the Red and Leif Erikson followed the whale road across the Western Ocean around 1000 CE, the monks certainly held their audience in a thrall over the centuries. The most memorable event of Brendan’s maritime quest for the Garden of Eden certainly was the celebration of Easter Mass on an island that turned out to be the sleeping Jasconius, a giant, whale-like creature, awoken by the saint and his fellows when they lit a fire on the poor thing’s back. Nonetheless, St Brendan returned to tell the tale, became the patron saint of whales, founded various monasteries, finally died as an old man, allegedly, in 577 and was buried in Clonfert.

Brendan’s Island appeared on maps as late as the early 18th century, Henry the Navigator and Columbus believed in its existence, even though they placed it in west of Africa and not in the North Atlantic. Of course, Brendan joined the queue of pre-Columbian discoverers of America like the Welsh Prince Madoc or even pre-Viking explorers like Bran. In 1976, the British explorer, historian and author Tim Severin took the legends literally, build a currach, a type of Irish boat with a wooden frame over which ox hides are stretched as it was described in the old texts and used at least until the 17th century and set forth with a crew of three on an epic 4,500 mile voyage from the west of Ireland along the Hebrides and Iceland to Newfoundland, trying to prove that a voyage like St Brendan’s was at least possible in the early Middle Ages. The saint, in the meanwhile, is venerated as patron of sailors along with St Nick and various local heroes and, as of late, as the holy helper in cases where portable canoes are involved

All images above were created by Kathleen Neely A. B. Jackson's "The Voyage of St. Brendan" (2021) and found on the website below.

#unhallowedarts #dark art #dark aesthetic #book illustration

[thecorsetcollection]

dvd collection #-i

9 dir. Shane Acker 12 Monkeys dir. Terry Gilliam Aftermath Genesis dir. Nacho Cerda All That Jazz dir. Bob Fosse Altered States dir. Ken Russell Amour dir. Michael Haneke Angst dir. Gerald Kargl Annie Hall dir. Woody Allen Another Public Enemy dir. Kang Woo-Suk Antiviral dir. Brandon Cronenberg Audition dir. Takashi Miike Battle Royale dir. Kinji Fukasaku Before Sunrise dir. Richard Linklater Before Sunset dir. Richard Linklater Begotten dir. E. Elias Merhige Bill Osco's Alice in Wonderland dir. Bud Townsend Black Swan dir. Darren Aranofsky Blood and Black Lace dir. Mario Bava Blue Valentine dir. Derek Cianfrance Blue Velvet dir. David Lynch Bottle Rocket dir. Wes Anderson Bruno dir. Larry Charles Bubba Ho-Tep dir. Don Coscarelli Bully dir. Larry Clark The Burning Moon dir. Olaf Ittenbach Cabin Fever dir. Eli Roth Cache dir. Michael Haneke Calvaire dir. Fabrice du Welz Cannibal Ferox dir. Umberto Lenzi Cannibal Holocaust dir. Ruggero Deodato Casablanca dir. Michael Curtiz Castle in the Sky dir. Hayao Miyazaki Cigarette Burns dir. John Carpenter The Conjuring dir. James Wan Coraline dir. Henry Selick Corpse Bride dir. Tim Burton Crimson Peak dir. Guillermo del Toro Cure dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa Delta Farce dir. CB Harding The Dentist dir. Brian Yuzna The Devil's Backbone dir. Guillermo del Toro Dogville dir. Lars Von Trier Double Indemnity dir. Billy Wilder The Dreamers dir. Bernardo Bertolucci Drive dir. Nicolas Winding Refn Dune dir. David Lynch Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind dir. Michel Gondry The Evil Dead (1982) dir. Sam Raimi The Evil Dead (2013) dir. Fede Alvarez Experimental FIlms dir. Maya Deren Fando y Lis dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky Fantastic Mr. Fox dir. Wes Anderson Flowers dir. Phil Stevens The Fountain dir. Darren Aranofsky Freddy Got Fingered dir. Tom Green The French Dispatch dir. Wes Anderson Frontier(s) dir. Xavier Gens Funny Games (2007) dir. Michael Haneki Girl, Interrupted dir. James Mangold Goodnight Mommy dir. Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala The Grand Budapest Hotel dir. Wes Anderson The Great Muppet Caper dir. Jim Henson Guinea Pig: Flower of Flesh and Blood dir. Hideshi Hino Gummo dir. Harmony Korine Half Baked dir. Tamra Davis Happiness of the Katakuris dir. Takashi Miike Hara-Kiri dir. Takashi Miike Hard Boiled dir. John Woo Hard Candy dir. David Slade Heathers dir. Michael Lehmann Hellraiser dir. Clive Barker Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer dir. John McNaughton Her dir. Spike Jonze A History of Violence dir. David Cronenberg The Holy Mountain dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky The Host dir. Bong Joon-Ho The Hunt dir. Thomas Vinterberg Ichi the Killer dir. Takashi Miike The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus dir. Terry Gilliam Imprint dir. Takashi Miike In a Glass Cage dir. Agustin Villaronga Inland Empire dir. David Lynch Inside dir. Verane Frediani & Franck Ribiere I Saw the Devil dir. Kim Jee-Woon I Spit on Your Grave dir. Meir Zarchi Isle of Dogs dir. Wes Anderson

#horror #dvd collection #david lynch #studio ghibli #muppets

[jurakan]

Oh! It’s fun fact fuhridayyyy!!!!

YES IT IS

Today You Learned about Saint Brendan the Navigator.

[I just finished Brendan by Frederick Buechner today so it's on my mind.]

Saint Brendan was considered one of the 12 Apostles of Ireland--that is, twelve Irish missionaries who helped spread Christianity throughout the British Isles. As with many Celtic saints, there are a ton of crazy stories about him and his adventures. Notably, there is the story of his voyages, which became very popular in the medieval period.

See, a common motif in Irish mythology and tradition was the idea of people going on a journey across the sea, into the west, to reach Tir na nOg, the Isle of the Blessed from Irish myth--which got sort of adapted into Heaven or an Earthly paradise in Christian folklore. [You'll probably recognize this as similar to the Plot of Voyage of the Dawn Treader, which is ABSOLUTELY intentional.] Saint Brendan's the most famous, probably. According to legend he saw CRAZY stuff, like that one island they landed on and set up a fire to celebrate Mass only to find out it was a large sea creature. Also there's an island with Judas on it, where he takes a break on holy days when he's not being tormented in Hell?

Also famously, the land he is said to have discovered, Saint Brendan's Isle, was on maps throughout the medieval period.

The Faroe Islands totally that they're the famous Isle, if this stamp is anything to go by:

Now here's the weird thing: a lot of people think that Brendan got so far west that he reached the Americas, making him the first one to discover North America, centuries before the Norse did. Now personally, I find this assertion kind of iffy--it's not THE most ridiculous 'These guys discovered America!' conspiracy theory, but I find I am far from buying into it. Ask me about those other ones on another Friday.

Now, explorer Tim Severin (who made a career out of this sort of thing) proved that it was, technically speaking, POSSIBLE for someone to make this voyage with the technology at the time, which doesn't mean that it happened. And then you have people writing at least a couple of children's books claiming it as established fact that Brendan totes mcgotes discovered America.

Brendan also has a subplot in Assassin's Creed: Valhalla, in which he apparently traveled to all the Stone Circles in England, and in-game apparently really DID discover America (and wrote on a Stone Circle there too), with references to "Vinland" also being called "Saint Brendan's Isle". Although in the game, Vinland is discovered a hundred years too early.

Anyhow now you know!

#Saint Brendan #saints #Ireland #Today You Learned #Fun Fact Friday #history

[missflufffanfics]

I posted 5,456 times in 2022

That's 5,435 more posts than 2021!

154 posts created (3%)

5,302 posts reblogged (97%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

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@lollytea

I tagged 269 of my posts in 2022

#chenford - 28 posts

#the owl house - 22 posts

#harry potter fandom - 19 posts

#romione - 16 posts

#fanfiction - 14 posts

#harry potter characters - 14 posts

#harry potter - 13 posts

#toh - 13 posts

#nace - 12 posts

#huntlow - 12 posts

Longest Tag: 126 characters

#okay but i saw the ‘there was a couple named tim and lucy ‘ and my little chenford heart said that was the last damn straw man

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

THE REASON IT SHOWS AT THE BEGINNING THAT VEE IS BEST AT SPANISH IS SO SHE CAN BE CAMILA AT THE END IM CRYING

89 notes - Posted October 15, 2022

#4

Okay, has anyone else talked abt the fact that when Gus first greeted fake Willow, before knowing she was fake he mentioned why Hunter really left? He said to Willow ”Dont worry, Hunter’s with us! Also, I think Hunter left the emporer’s coven..!” So that means that the Emperor might know exactly why he left? I mean he might’ve already known after Hollow Mind, but if he didnt he might know now. Though, the person who faked being Willow was the one who quitted at the end of the episode, but maybe the emperor still wanted all the info he had before he got to leave? idk, any other thoughts people?

Edit: Now realizing how I totally didn't get what I was trying to say across here. Lol sorry I'm bad with words. to the people int eh comments and such yea ik he prob already knows srry abt that it is kinda obvious but then also I was saying Severine could've told other people in the emperor's coven abt why hunter left or just like tell people and let more people know that hunter left bc belos was being manipulative etc etc but obviously this is obsolete now since the finale sooo... yeah sorry abt this post lol its a mishmash of 3 am thoughts

90 notes - Posted May 11, 2022

#3

Istg Grey is gonna be like ‘I leave for a weekend and THIS happens?!?!?!’

103 notes - Posted December 4, 2022

#2

A random doodle dedicated to Romione in the Gryffindor commons end of 6th year.

107 notes - Posted February 6, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

I just realized in this pic from King’s Tide where Hunter is watching out for Willow (love them protecting eachother 💖💖) he has the whole draining spell Cigil yellow thing up atleast to his elbow at that point. Like, he’s gotta be in some serious pain. And he still doesn’t hesitate to watch out for her and then she repays the favor and dindkdjdoemebdukdndjdndkd that’s just adorable 🥰

209 notes - Posted September 15, 2022

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[iasconius]

A Reading List of Saints, Myths, Monks, & Assorted Sea Voyagers

Bede's Life of St Cuthbert

Life of St Wilfrid

Adomnán's Life of St Columba

From A Celtic Miscellany:

A Storm at Sea

The Hermit's Hut

The Hill of Howth

The Mist

The whole section on Magic

The whole section on Religion

The Voyage of St Brendan

The Voyage of Máel Dúin

The Voyage of the Uí Chorra

The Voyage of Snedgus and Mac Riagla

The Voyage of Bran

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Tennyson's Voyage of Maeldune

Tolkien's Death of St Brendan

The Odyssey

Kingsley The Heroes

The Mabinogion

Chrétien de Troyes Perceval (but really all of his Arthurian Romances)

Malory's Tale of the Sangrail (& realistically I will end up rereading the Morte in both the Baines and Cooper editions I have)

Strassburg's Tristan

Tennyson's Idylls of the King

The Song of Roland

The Lais of Marie de France, especially

Guigemar

Le Fresne

Bisclavret

Lanval

Les Deux Amants

Chevrefoil

The Aeneid (the first 6 books for now)

The Bhagavad-Gita

The Mahabharata

Peter Brown Cult of the Saints

Other things that are (sort of) on theme but aren't on the main list for whatever reason:

The Name of the Rose

Navigatio

L'Île des Pingouins

In the Falcon's Claw

The Cadfael books

Cornwell's Excalibur trilogy (& others probably. He has one on the Grail, no?)

Kevin Crossley-Holland's Arthur Trilogy (childhood nostagia)

Tim Severin's documentaries attempting some of these voyages

Narziss and Goldmund

This is a working list that I'll be adding things to and rearranging as I go. As it stands, it's a mix of things I need to read for my research and future projects and things I'm reading for fun (I am the number one fan of monks on boats going places). I'll definitely be adding a lot of Hindu and Buddhist texts to this, I just need to pick which ones would be most relevant and useful or interesting. Ditto with Catholic and Orthodox commentaries on the apocalypse. I'll probably also read some 20th century USAmerican texts from certain branches of Protestantism, but that's for later. Oh and so much theory + science (Durkheim, Levi-Strauss, Lifton, Berger, ...). And finally I will definitely be adding so many echtrae to the list.

#reading list

[southeastasianarchaeology]

The Historic Raft Voyage from Asia to America

Vietnamese fisherman Luong Viet Loi's 5,500-mile Pacific journey on a bamboo raft, Tu Phuc, highlights ancient navigation skills and cultural endurance.

via Vietnam Express, 23 February 2024: I had only ever heard of Thor Heyadahl’s Kon Tiki experiment to traverse the Pacific Ocean on a raft. In 1993, Vietnamese fisherman Luong Viet Loi, alongside Irish explorer Tim Severin and a diverse crew, embarked on a historic 5,500-mile journey across the Pacific Ocean on a bamboo raft named Tu Phuc to explore the theory of ancient Asian voyages to…

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#Hong Kong #Pacific Ocean #watercraft (boats/ships/etc.)

[lemagcinema]

The Devil's Bath de Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala

Un film de Veronika Franz ,Severin Fiala Avec: Anja Plaschg, Maria Hofstätter, David Scheid, Tim Valerian AlbertiAutriche, 18ème siècle. Des villages entourés de forêts profondes. Une femme est condamnée à mort après avoir tué un bébé. Agnès, elle, se marie avec son bien-aimé et se prépare à sa nouvelle vie d’épouse. Mais rapidement, sa tête et son cœur se font de plus en plus lourds. Jour après jour, elle se sent davantage prise au piège d’un chemin trouble et solitaire qui la mène à de mauvaises pensées. Et peut-être pas seulement des pensées.

Retrouvez l'article complet ici https://lemagcinema.fr/microcritique/the-devils-bath-de-veronika-franz-severin-fiala/

#JCBerlinale2024

[branmer]

i realised recently that ive been mixing up garth nix and guy gavriel kay in my head for the longest time. which im not sure if that's less or more embarrassing than the time i confused severin carrell (journalist) and tim severin (historical novelist). i mean at least they are both fantasy writers i guess

[esonetwork]

'The Shadowed Circle # 4' Book Review By Ron Fortier

New Post has been published on https://esonetwork.com/the-shadowed-circle-4-book-review-by-ron-fortier/

'The Shadowed Circle # 4' Book Review By Ron Fortier

THE SHADOWED CIRCLE # 4 Editor/Publisher Steve Donoso A Renaissance Arts Press Publication 66 pages

What a delight to get this new issue in the mail recently. As ever the articles are so much fun and all of them are contributed by true Shadow fans. Both Will Murray and Tim King hunt for whatever origins may have led Walter Gibson to come up with the name B. Jonas as the “drop box” for his New York City agents. It’s fascinating to see how each writer approaches this mystery from different points.

This was followed by several articles in regard to the Shadow in comic books. Although we didn’t completely agree with Todd D. Severin’s conceit in regard to the character’s overall importance to the four-color media’s history, we found his facts both fascinating and informative. Whereas Daryl Morrissey’s piece on the comic book team-up of the Shadow and Doc Savage was a wonderful trip down memory lane as we proudly own all the issues referred to in the article.

The second of half Michael Uslan’s interview was very comprehensive dealing with the various aspects of his involvement with classic pulp and radio heroes. Then we have the finale of the issue which was a hoot. John Olsen, working from the actual radio script, narrates the final Shadow episode which aired on December 26, 1954. He does so with such panache, that it was easy to imagine the actual show itself, with the actors playing their part against the haunting mood music background and nerve-shattering sound effects.

Finally a tip of our pulp fedora to the artists who graced this issue. From the cover to the interior illustrations, each delivered amazing drawings.

“The Shadowed Circle” has proven to be the finest fan publication on the Shadow ever produced. ‘Nuff said?

#book review #ESO Book Review #ESO Network #Pulp Adventure #Renaissance Arts Press Publication #Ron Foriter #Steve Donosco #The Shadow #The Shadowed Circle 4 #Tim King #Will Murray

[equatorjournal]

Argo, 1985. Photo by Nazem Choufeh. "The voyage of Odysseus posed one of the most tantalising riddles in history: was Homer's Odyssey entirely imaginary? or did Ulysses make a real voyage home from the siege of Troy to Ithaca? Did Scylla and Charybdis and the Cyclops really exist in any form? Tim Severin uses his replica of a Bronze Age galley to follow the clues which lead to a startling solution to the puzzle. According to legend, Ulysses was nine years on his homeward journey, and over the centuries historians, classicists and archaeologists alike have tried to make sense of his wanderings. Every place that Homer mentions has been identified differently and no two investigators agree on all locations. Ulysses' logical homeward route has been put to the practical test in a faithful replica of the type of ship used in Ulysses' era, and sailed by the rules of navigation of the time. Tim Severin overturns all the orthodox theories, and in a remarkable series of discoveries charts the likely position of the Clashing Rocks, reveals where the cave of the legendary Cyclops would have been, and establishes the origins of Ulysses' adventures." From "The Ulysses voyage: sea search for the Odyssey" by Timothy Severin, 1987. https://www.instagram.com/p/Ceea6_vNAti/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=