In other words, a little nothing: a bagatelle.
I’m home sick, with an upper respiratory virus and no voice, instead of being at choir practice, where the rest of the choir is hard at work preparing for Sunday, when we will be doing four special songs for our Christmas Cantata. There’s another cantata rehearsal called for Saturday, which I also cannot attend, because that is when I’ll be at Yule Feast, for which I’ve waited so long! But I’ll show up for the early morning practice on Sunday….
And I’m taking a break from the interminable reading I’m doing for my research paper on two of the Icelandic Viking sagas: Laxdaela saga and Njal’s saga. Tomorrow is set aside entirely for reading, but the weekend will be devoted to both SCA events (all day and evening Saturday, as well as Sunday afternoon and evening) and church on Sunday morning.
I will be refreshed when I get my nose back to the grindstone on Monday! 🙂
Meanwhile, here are some images I have found for the two sagas. They are mostly pretty old-style things:
That last photo is the way I wish things were! Now back to reading, by myself, alas! 😉
Let Us Live Like We Mean It! 
Get well soon. Sick is not cool.
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Thanks! You are so right! 😛
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Indeed. Your schedule is so packed!
Take care and rest well.
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Thank you. Maybe being a bit sick is a sign to slow down a bit. At least for a day more! LOL 🙂
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Get better soon. Enjoy the enforced rest.
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Thank you, Robyn. I was chafing at the bit and threatening to bolt tomorrow, but now I’ve seen reason and will rest and catch up on my research instead.
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Get well soon, Timi. Hugs.
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Thank you, Val. Turns out it’s bronchitis, and I must rest. Ugh! 😛 LOL
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Oh no. Yes, you must rest. I’ve had bronchitis several times.
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That’s one of the many good things about reading, You can usually do it when you’re sick. Get well soon.,
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Thanks, April. Just back from the doc’s office, where I got a diagnosis of bronchitis and orders to rest. So no traveling to Yule Feast tomorrow for me. 😦 Ah well–I’ve got two Twelfth Night celebrations in early January to hope to atttend!
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Oh dear. Bronchitis is not good. I hope you know how to rest, so many people don’t.
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I suspect I’m one of those who are not very good at resting, April! 😛
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I thought you might not be. give it a go, though. You might like it.
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I’m a few days late reading this, so I’m hoping you’re feeling much better by now. I’ve just noticed in a comment above that the long-awaited Yule Feast must be missed. That’s such a shame. I hope there’ll be a repeat next year.
The images from the Icelandic sagas are excellent. I’ve seen several scenes similar to that in the Viking museum in Reykjavik. It’s well worth a visit for Icelandic history. I’ve only ‘dipped into’ the sagas for things I needed to know, My Vikings are Danes and those who settled in Iceland were mostly Norwegians, but customs were similar, overall.
\Wishing you all the best in your continued reading and research.
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Thanks, Millie. One of the first places I plan to go in Reykjavik is the Saga Museum and also 871+-. I’ll be doing some day trips, one up the west coast to Snaefellsnes peninsula. I’m hoping that there’s a stop on that trip in Borgarnes to go to their Settlement Center, which is supposed to be excellent. I have to go back to your Iceland posts to remember what you saw there! 🙂
Yes, most of the Icelandic settlers were Norwegian, but some came via the Orkneys, Faroes, Scotland, and Ireland, where they tried settling first. You are right about the similarities in the customs of all the Scandinavian countries in the Middle Ages. I’m enjoying learning more and more about them.
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The Saga museum is the one we went to. As it’s basically a Viking museum, I just tend to call it that. It has interesting info. about early settlement, including the Irish Celts. We weren’t in Iceland long enough to visit as many places as we’d have liked. Five days flies by, especially as two of those days were arrival and departure days. We didn’t get around to visiting the 871 +/- but we got to the National Museum of Iceland, which we didn’t find especially helpful. We didn’t get out to either of the sites you mention, although we had plenty of booklets/leaflets about them. They both look well worth visiting. The only trip we did was the Golden Circle one. It’s a lovely route, but only the site of the early Icelandic parliament (the Thingvellir) really relates to Norse settlement.
I still have several more posts I could do about Iceland, but I don’t think I’ll have the time. We visited so many placed this year, and I’ve a great long list to plough through.
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Ooooo–I’m dripping with envy over the plethora of places you’ve visited this year! Lucky you! 🙂
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All these trips have been at the expense of my writing, Timi – so, perhaps, not something to envy. But we’d promised ourselves that once I’d retired, we’d do a lot of travelling. It’s just hard to fit the two things in.
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Besides Iceland, where have you gone this year?
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This year, our only holiday abroad was to Iceland. The year before we went to Andalucia (southern Spain) and Malta. We always have lots of holidays in the UK as well, and this year we’ve been away once every month and twice in three of them. Our holidays tend to be a quest to find as many historic sites as possible, as well as reenactments and Viking villages here and there. We visit the Lake District and Wales a lot, as well as various parts of Yorkshire. This year we also had a week in Cornwall, one in Somerset and one in my old hometown of Southport. I’ve posted about a few of these places, but still have dozens waiting to be written up. Unfortunately, I’ve been on my blog relatively little this year, so I’ll just plod on and see what happens in 2017.
We’ve no specific plans for holidays next year as yet, other than a week in Ireland – which we haven’t visited since 2002. We hope to meet one of my blogging friends there, as we did on our trip to Cornwall.
Are you planning your Iceland trip for next year? We went at the end of September, a great time to see the aurora borealis. But there are places there I’d love to see in the summer, too.
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Oh, I really envy you, Millie, for living in the UK. I’m definitely an American Anglophile, with antecedents in England, Scotland and Ireland, plus France and native America. It has only been through bad luck and poor decisions that I haven’t been to the UK (yet). I would love to go anywhere and everywhere there!
I’ll be going to Iceland this May 2017 for ten days, not counting travel days. That is as long as I can afford to stay, and it is not nearly long enough! I’ve been retired for over 15 years on a disability pension from my state employment, and while that is a great safety net to have (and one that is not available to more recent workers), it doesn’t provide nearly the income that my salary and then regular retirement would have. So travel is a fairly rare occasion for me, especially in the last almost ten years. But I’m a great armchair traveler! And having done actual travel before lends my armchair excursions a reality they might not otherwise have, because I can season my imaginary thrills with the more earthy, and sometimes pedestrian, experiences of difficulties making connections and communicating, as well as the unexpected, pleasurable ‘sidelights’ we encounter on our way to enjoying the highlights. 🙂
If I do ever make it to the UK, I will certainly hope to connect with you somewhere along the way!
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