© Gunnar Tómasson 3 July 2017 Seven Lost Years and Robert Greene Background 1. Archetypal Robert Greene (S. Schoenbaum) With [Robert] Greene we cannot always separate fact from fiction in the fantasias he composed on autobiographical themes, or the legend made of him by his contemporaries. The pattern of his life – necessarily pieced together […]
`© Gunnar Tómasson 2. júlí 2017 Inngangsorð (5. febrúar 2005) Í upphafi formála að útgáfu hans á Völuspá (1923) kemst Sigurður Nordal svo að orði: „Völuspá er eitt þeirra verka, sem hver íslenzkur ritskýrandi verður fyr eða síðar að glíma við. Hún er, eins og Sonatorrek, Íslendingabók, Heimskringla, Njála, Lilja, Passíusálmarnir o.s.frv., meðal hátinda íslenzkrar […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 1. júlí 2017 I. Svá, at kalla hann skapara himins ok jarðar By calling him creator of heaven and earth (Skáldskaparmál, 65. kafli – Fyrri hluti/First part) 88442 11017 = Hvernig skal Krist kenna? 21714 = Svá, at kalla hann skapara himins ok jarðar, engla ok sólar, 15742 = stýranda heims ok […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 30 June 2017 Summary 2542548 = I. The King James Bible, Dedication, 1611 As in: 2173028 = II. Laxdæla – Slaying/Dráp Kjartans Ólafssonar 369520 = III. On Lord Bacon’s Sixtieth Birth-day. MYSTERIE. 2542548 I. The King James Bible (Dedication, 1611) 2542548 17083 = To the most high and mightie Prince, James […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 30 June 2017 I. Behold, the LORD wil come with fire, to render his anger with furie. (Isaiah, 66:15-18, KJB 1611) 249921 66:15 17699 = For, behold, the LORD wil come with fire, 19228 = and with his charets like a whirlewinde, 14518 = to render his anger with furie, 14209 = […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 28 June 2017 Explanatory Foreword What is The Quest of the Holy Grail? How does it concern Anna Whateley? Wikipedia: Anne Whateley [read: Anna Whateley] is the name given to a woman who is sometimes supposed to have been the intended wife of William Shakespeare before he married Anne Hathaway. […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 27 June 2017. I. There’s a Diuinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will (Hamlet, Act V. Sc. ii) 228295 10220 = Enter Hamlet and Horatio. Hamlet: 21839 = So much for this Sir; now let me see the other, 16054 = You doe remember all the Circumstance. Horatio: […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 26 June 2017 I. Discovery of Iceland – Pseudo-history (Landnáma/Book of Settlements, I, Ch. 9) 872370 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 = […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 25. júní 2017. The answer my friend is blowing in the wind – ef þú kannt at skilja þat, er hulit er kveðit. Samantekt 262982 = Minnismerki Hórasar 10739 = Grettir Ásmundarson 1000 = Kristnitaka 1000 A.D. 5596 = Andlig spekðin -6960 = Jarðlig skilning 43746 = Brennu-Njálssaga 271148 = […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 24 June 2017 I. He is not here: for he is risen (Matt. Ch. 28, KJB 1611) 908457 28:1 8816 = In the ende of the Sabbath, 24803 = as it began to dawne towards the first day of the weeke, 13183 = came Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, 9596 = to […]