A video specially made for Winter Solstice of Maes Howe Chambered Cairn on Orkney. This 5000 year old Neolithic monument also has the sun shining down the passageway. Explanation by a professor about the tomb, interesting expert on the many runes that have been carved on the walls. Also poem which recited in the dialect was very special.
The video keeps starting 15 minutes in, so go back to the beginning.
And then there is Tolkien taken from Tom Bombadil............
Get out, you old Wight! Vanish in the sunlight!
Shrivel like the cold mist, like the winds go wailing,
Out into the barren lands far beyond the mountains!
Come never here again! Leave your barrow empty!
Lost and forgotten be, darker than the darkness,
Where gates stand for ever shut, till the world is mended.
I doubt the world will ever be mended - it seems we have to put up with what we have. Do have a good Christmas - like me - we have our memories and they are good ones. Take care and here's to some lighter nights.
ReplyDeleteA good Christmas to you Pat as well. The world - is - as it has always been, take joy from the many friends you have around you. X
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