The Black Death

  • Ep. 44- Galleys of the Lochlanns

    Kelly and Dermot set sail for the time of Vikings and jerkined dwarfs! They discuss the differences of similarly-shaped seafaring vessels, Lochlanns, Fr. Dineen’s Irish dictionary, the intersection of Viking and Celtic cultures in Ireland, torcs, tomahawk, the horrors of 14th c. Dublin, famine, plague and slaughters, the story of the time a pod of…

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  • Decoding Dedalus: Galleys of the Lochlanns

    We don’t want any of your medieval abstrusiosities. – Stephen Dedalus This is a post in a series called Decoding Dedalus where I take a passage of Ulysses and  break it down line by line. The passage below comes from “Proteus,” the third episode of Ulysses. It appears on page 45 in my copy (1990…

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