© Gunnar Tómasson 24 July 2017 I. The Abomination of Desolation¹ (Contemporary history) 468222 The Gates of Hell 13031 = International Monetary Fund 9948 = Harvard University 7146 = Seðlabanki Íslands = 30125 Right Measure of Man Persecuted 8525 = Gunnar Tómasson 12385 = Guðrún Ólafía Jónsdóttir Modes of Persecution 11587 = Character Assassination […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 23 July 2017 I. Prisca Theologia – Definition 131674 7521 = Prisca Theologia Conception 1000 = Light of the World -4000 = Dark Sword – Man-Beast Alpha Inferno Canto I¹ 15438 = Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita 15885 = mi ritrovai per una selva oscura 12588 = ché […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 22 July 2017 I. Iceland Settlement Myth¹ (Landnámabók, Part I, Ch. 9) 838109 16207 = Þá er Ísland fannst ok byggðist af Nóregi, 19035 = var Adríanús páfi í Róma ok Jóhannes eftir hann, 23567 = sá er inn fimmti var með því nafni í postulligu sæti, 21325 = en Hlöðver Hlöðvesson […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 21 July 2017 I.The Genius Of Antiquity In 1598 an unknown author of considerable talent and great charm wrote a series of satires, which he called Scialetheia, or A Shadow of Truth. In his snapdragon verses he described the vanity of the times. Staying late after the play at the Curtain, he […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 20 July 2017 I. Snorri Sturluson’s Advice to Young Poets (Skáldskaparmál, 8. kafli) 197920 16349 = En þetta er nú at segja ungum skáldum, 15868 = þeim er girnast at nema mál skáldskapar 16723 = ok heyja sér orðfjölða með fornum heitum 15251 = eða girnast þeir at kunna skilja þat, 8474 […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 19 July 2017 I. Alexander Pope – Messiah Poem¹ (1712) 192670 Alpha 13829 = Ye nymphs of Solyma! begin the song, 19614 = To heavenly themes sublimer strains belong. 18799 = The mossy fountains, and the sylvan shades, 15928 = The dreams of Pindus, and the Aonian maids, 17779 = Delight no […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 17. júlí 2017 I. Út vil ek. (Íslendinga saga, 143. kafli) 407189 16506 = Um vetrinn eftir Örlygsstaðafund 16980 = váru þeir með Skúla hertoga í Niðarósi 31481 = Snorri Sturluson ok Órækja sonr hans, ok Þorleifr Þórðarson, 19322 = en Þórðr kakali var í Björgyn með Hákoni konungi. 12685 = En […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 17 July 2017 I. Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (Macbeth, Act I, Sc. i – First Folio) 164696 19939 = Thunder and Lightning. Enter three Witches. First 13740 = When shall we three meet againe? 14117 = In Thunder, Lightning, or in Raine? Second 13522 = When the Hurley-burley’s done, 16533 = […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 16 July 2017 I. Enter Brutus in his Orchard (Cæsar, Act II, Sc. i. First Folio) 1565821 13539 = Enter Brutus in his Orchard. Brutus 8706 = What, Lucius, hoe? 18424 = I cannot, by the progresse of the Starres, 18754 = Giue guesse how neere to day. Lucius, I say? […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 15 July 2017 I. How does the Queene? (Hamlet, Act V, Sc. ii. First Folio) 1808115 Hamlet 9442 = How does the Queene? King 12228 = She sounds to see them bleede. Queen 10946 = No, no, the drinke, the drinke. 6379 = Oh my deere Hamlet, 8488 = the drinke, the […]