Books 2010: oh to be cool again
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hawkwing_lbBooks 2010: 86
86. Eirik the Red and Other Icelandic Sagas, translated with an introduction by Gwyn Jones, Oxford, 1961 (reissued 2008).
Interesting. Murders and lawsuits and raids and things. Very interesting.
The longer I'm here, the busier I seem to get. No doubt this will eventually tail off, as I see everything that is to be seen, but it has been a busy week thus far. Monday we spent all afternoon on the beach, seven of us, three Serbians, a German, two Englishwomen and me. Tuesday night was a special night, the night of the full moon, with free music at various open air locations, so four of us (a Swedish girl, the two Englishwomen, and me) had dinner in the Upper Town and watched the moon rise over the Byzantine walls, before going to music at the Byzantine fort - and because that wasn't enough, heading down to the odeon in the Roman agora after an hour to listen to the music there, too.
Wednesday I went up alone to the Byzantine fort to have a good look at it in daylight. It is kind of fantastic. It was a fort from at least the middle Byzantine period until the late Ottoman period, but in 1890 it was turned into a prison (which it remained until 1990, and a grim prison it must have been), so what exists now is the shell of the fort around what remains of the prison.
And today I walked around the Rotunda of Agios Giorgos, before going to lunch with the class entire. So much food. So. Much. Food. We were sat down from 1330 until about 1600, eating.
86. Eirik the Red and Other Icelandic Sagas, translated with an introduction by Gwyn Jones, Oxford, 1961 (reissued 2008).
Interesting. Murders and lawsuits and raids and things. Very interesting.
The longer I'm here, the busier I seem to get. No doubt this will eventually tail off, as I see everything that is to be seen, but it has been a busy week thus far. Monday we spent all afternoon on the beach, seven of us, three Serbians, a German, two Englishwomen and me. Tuesday night was a special night, the night of the full moon, with free music at various open air locations, so four of us (a Swedish girl, the two Englishwomen, and me) had dinner in the Upper Town and watched the moon rise over the Byzantine walls, before going to music at the Byzantine fort - and because that wasn't enough, heading down to the odeon in the Roman agora after an hour to listen to the music there, too.
Wednesday I went up alone to the Byzantine fort to have a good look at it in daylight. It is kind of fantastic. It was a fort from at least the middle Byzantine period until the late Ottoman period, but in 1890 it was turned into a prison (which it remained until 1990, and a grim prison it must have been), so what exists now is the shell of the fort around what remains of the prison.
And today I walked around the Rotunda of Agios Giorgos, before going to lunch with the class entire. So much food. So. Much. Food. We were sat down from 1330 until about 1600, eating.
