© Gunnar Tómasson 9 April 2016 I. Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð’s Easter Letter¹ (Easter Sunday, 27 March 2016) 1556328 10623 = Hvað snýr upp og niður? 10230 = Gleðilega páska öll sömul. 21863 = Það varla viðeigandi að ræða mikið um stjórnmál á páskum 22989 = en að þessu sinni verður líklega ekki hjá […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 9 April 2016 Background (S. Schoenbaum – See below) I. Archtypal Robert Greene’s Repentant Death (Shakespeare Myth) 117898 17013 = GREENES, GROATS-WORTH of witte, 16389 = bought with a million of Repentance. 29168 = Describing the follie of youth, the falshood of make-shifte flatterers, 28707 = the miserie of the negligent, and […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 8 April 2016 I. The Great Call to the Icelandic Nation to Repentance and Righteousness (Adam Rutherford, Iceland‘s Great Inheritance) 1127781 Setting the Stage 783007 = Iceland‘s Great Inheritance – I of II O Iceland, arise to your high and wonderful calling! 28662 = The great call to the Icelandic nation at […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 8 April 2016 Background – Benjamin (Adam Rutherford) 1. The Tribe of Benjamin was by far the smallest of all the Twelve Tribes of Israel. Benjamin, the ancestor and federal head of the Benjamites, was the youngest of all Jacob’s twelve sons, from whom the respective tribes of Israel originated. At […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 6 April 2016 Corrected I. Wishing King James Grace, Mercie, and Peace, through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Dedication, KJB, 1611) 429498 17083 = To the most high and mightie Prince, Iames 14782 = by the grace of God King of Great Britaine, 13600 = France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 5 April 2016 Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð’s Easter Letter (Easter Sunday, 27 March 2016) 1571210 10623 = Hvað snýr upp og niður? 10230 = Gleðilega páska öll sömul. 21863 = Það varla viðeigandi að ræða mikið um stjórnmál á páskum 22989 = en að þessu sinni verður líklega ekki hjá því […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 5 April 2016 The Hamlet Myth – Summary (First folio, 1623) 971338 15621 = The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke Hamlet’s Mission (Act I, Sc. v) 18729 = Oh all you host of heauen! Oh earth; what els? 15857 = And shall I couple hell? Oh fie: hold my heart; 21200 […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 5 April 2016 I. The King James Bible (Dedication, 1611) 2542548 17083 = To the most high and mightie Prince, Iames 14782 = by the grace of God King of Great Britaine, 13600 = France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. [c = 100 in &c] 16142 = The Translators of […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 4 April, 2016 An Easter Letter Written by Unknown Hand (Alfred Dodd) Every schoolboy knows the story told in their history books how Francis Bacon one snowy day on or about All Fools Day, 1 April 1626, drove with the King’s Physician, Sir John Wedderburn, to Highgate and that at the foot […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 3 April, 2016 Explanatory Preface For the past two thousand years plus, there have been two distinct foundational views of Christianity. For the past forty years, I have researched what I have called the Augustan-Saga-Shakespeare tradition of Myth and Literature, which incorporates (a) Pythagorean Creation Myth, merged with (b) Platonic imagery, including […]