engraving
Sep 18, 2026
What the Wolf Was Promised
A visit to the Gosforth Cross in Cumbria prompts a retelling of Fenrir's binding and the fate the Norse sources give him at Ragnarök.
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Sep 17, 2026
At the Well of Urd
An account of the Norns, the three women who set the fates of gods and mortals alike at the foot of the world tree, and of how uncertain their thread-work really is in the old sources.
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Sep 2, 2026
The Thing in the Reeds
A journal entry on the bunyip, the water-dwelling being of Aboriginal folklore from the Murray-Darling basin, and how a warning about dangerous water became, in colonial hands, both a cryptid and an insult.
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Aug 11, 2026
The Horse That Crosses Worlds
A journal entry on Sleipnir, Odin's eight-legged horse, tracing his strange birth and his one recorded errand into the land of the dead.
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Aug 8, 2026
The Scribe Who Counted the Moon
A visit to the ibis catacombs of ancient Hermopolis, where the moon god Thoth was worshipped as scribe, mathematician, and keeper of the balance between truth and chaos.
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Aug 3, 2026
The Face That Grows Leaves
A record of the foliate heads carved into English and Welsh churches, and the strange, still-unsettled question of what — or who — they were made to represent.
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