Geek in the Low Lands

So, there is an amazing musician , Marian Call, who is trying to make it to my side of the pond. As I really want to see her, I'm already shamelessly promoting her Kickstarter . Please, if you can, support her!

Introduction In the tradition of Irish literature, there are many genres. One example is the genre of dindshenchas , the stories of why places are given certain names, and there is also the genre of tochmarc . A tochmarc is a story of the wooing of a woman. While each story has it's own unique details, there are many shared themes and tropes within the genre of tochmarc . Finding these common threads can give us some ideas of their idealised romance. For this, three stories will be used: Tochmarc Étaínne , from the Tales of the Tuatha De Danann, Tochmarc Emer , from the Ulster Cycle, and Tochmarc Becfola , from the Tales of the Traditional Kings. In the first section they will be briefly summarized while in the second section we will tie them together and briefly discuss the themes of tochmarc and the common elements within these stories. The Stories Tochmarc Étaínne The story of Tochmarc Étaínne 1 has been divided down into three subsections by the editors of Ber...

To celebrate my new blog I will be posting more entries like the one today. I don't think all my entries will be so thorough (these are older essays that took some more time than I'm regularly willing to spend on a blog post) but I hope people enjoy them. I also hope to do some translation posts, but I'm not yet sure how I want to format them. I'll probably try a few ways out and see what works best. I'll also be writing about other topics, but I want to ease in to blogging before I go diving in to things like current events. That is, unless someone asks for something. As I said in my introduction , I fully welcome that! (So long as it is not something like asking for porn...)

Introduction From 43 AD to about 410 - 425 AD 1 the Romans occupied Britain. However Rome's influence lingered even after the occupation ended. The appearance of Latin loanwords in British Celtic is strong evidence of this influence. In Britain, the Roman language left a lasting mark on British Celtic that we can still find in Welsh today. The question is what is the history of Latin and British Celtic. What did the people of Britain speak between the fi rst and seventh centuries AD, and how did this eff ect British Celtic? This is what will be briefly covered in this blogpost. Latin and British Celtic After the Romans invaded in 43 AD, we fi rst see Latin loan words used in conjunction with terms concerning the upper class. This only seems logical,as some of the things of the new ruling class were unique to Roman civilization and had not yet made an appearance in the Celtic world. We also see that some Latin load words are taken, even though there existed a Celtic word a...

Who is this person? Welcome to my rambling blog, you can call me Tric. I'm 26 years old (soon to be 27) and I have a difficult time trying to summarize who I am. I was born in a tiny town in New York, USA, where I lived until I was 19. At the age of 19 I moved across the Atlantic ocean to the Netherlands to live with my boyfriend and continue my education. I have been continuing my education for awhile now and I'm hoping to try to get a little bit more than just school in my life. What has been my education 1 ? I did a year of Independent Studies in the US at SUNY Ulster, focusing mainly on history, music, and art. I did one year of history at University of Utrecht (Universiteit Utrecht) and am now finishing up my 5th 2 year studying Celtic languages and culture, also at Utrecht. Besides that, I'm a feminist, an atheist, a skeptic, and a fan of music, movies, history, languages, and whatever catches my fancy on a given day. I also am a musician, singing currently with...

So, I posted one blog, and then proceeded to vanish from my own blog! You'd think I could keep this up, but I have serious issues with writing things. (Loads of issues, enough to fill libraries..) I used to write fiction when I was a teenager, but for whatever reason I stopped. Most of my writing these last few years has been non-fiction, in the way of essays for various classes. So, I'm going to leave the previous post up (because the Unsinkable Molly Brown is interesting), and try again. It's summer now, so at the very least I shouldn't be as buried under all of my activities. Probably no one reads this anyway, so I'll post up a new post with an introduction to me, a little bit of my background/interests and what not, and we'll see if I can't post a bit more often. I'll try for every weekday, and I'll see if I can't come up with a series, which should be easier than just trying to pull new, unrelated topics every day.