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The internet needs another blog discussing atheism like a lobotomy patient needs ventilating. Yet here we are. How many also describe settlement period Iceland as a medieval Western, translate poems wherein Thor cross-dresses, or elucidate the links between climate change and the history of the middle ages? For I Have Tasted the Fruit is a blog about medieval history, science, religion, literature, and language. The author has eclectic interests.

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For I Have Tasted the Fruit · 1Y ago

Translation: The Death of Bede

Fore them neidfaerae naenig uuiurthit thoncsnottura than him tharf sie, to ymbhycggannae, aer his hiniongae, huaet his gastae godaes aeththa yflaes aefter deothdaege doemid uueorthae. 15thC (?) Depiction of Death; the struggle for the dying man’s soul Before that needful-journey no-one bec

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For I Have Tasted the Fruit · 1Y ago

“…it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.”

I have been having a lot of conversation, doing a lot of reading, about modern politics and economics. Anarchists and Marxists are among my friends nowadays, and the root causes for a lot of modern oppression is a fun thing to debate about. I like debate! But so much of the conversation is ahistoric

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For I Have Tasted the Fruit · 1Y ago

“It takes less effort to condemn than to think.”

I have been having a lot of conversation, doing a lot of reading, about modern politics and economics. Anarchists and Marxists are among my friends nowadays, and the root causes for a lot of modern oppression is a fun thing to debate about. I like debate! But so much of the conversation is ahistoric

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For I Have Tasted the Fruit · 1Y ago

“…problems that upset you…”

I have this memory, from a few years ago, of sitting around in a friend’s apartment and listening to random music and eating great food. (Said friend was Danish, you see, and dang but do Scandinavians know how to cook.) At some point the soundtrack for Jesus Christ Superstar came on. Specifically, ‘

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For I Have Tasted the Fruit · 1Y ago

“…gomenwudu greted, gid oft wrecan…”

Gosh. How did no-one tell me of HistoryTeachers, the best channel on the whole of the YouTubes? Dozens of tubes, covering topics ranging from prehistoric anthropology through the classical and medieval worlds up to the modern period. The formula might be simple (take pop song, make historical, profi

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For I Have Tasted the Fruit · 1Y ago

Translation: To My Critics

Catullus XVI Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo, Aureli pathice et cinaede Furi, qui me ex versiculis meis putastis, quod sunt molliculi, parum pudicum. nam castum esse decet pium poetam ipsum, versiculos nihil necesse est; qui tum denique habent salem ac leporem si sunt molliculi ac parum pudici et quod

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For I Have Tasted the Fruit · 1Y ago

“…anyone who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.”

I was quite surprised to hear the words ‘militant atheist’ spill from the mouths of some people yesterday. I thought that sort of silliness had been quite done away with. Still, I think the below video shows what they’re on about. Look at that angry, vicious militant propoganda. So harsh. Filed

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For I Have Tasted the Fruit · 1Y ago

“…sees all. His gaze pierces cloud, shadow, earth, and flesh.”

Those wacky Americans, and their disrespect for dead authors. Or those wacky Brits, and their stuffy, closed-minded attitude to the free-wheelin’ democratic attitude of their estranged children. Or perhaps a third option, something like ‘those wacky D-grade authors and also those wacky lawyers.’ The

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For I Have Tasted the Fruit · 1Y ago

Translation: A Wee Little Blackbird

Int én bec Int én bec ro·léic feit do rind guip glanbuidi fo·ceird faíd ós Loch Laíg lon do craíb charnbuidi. The Blackbird of Belfast Lough The little bird lets a whistle go from the point of a beak, bright yellow: throws out a cry above Loch Laíg, a blackbird from branch (a cairn of [...]

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For I Have Tasted the Fruit · 1Y ago

“…lighthouses erected in the sea of time.”

One of my oldest friends, recent mother, and published author (damn her hide) commented on Facebook the other day: Would like to know what makes Borders think they can charge $80 for a hardcover novel (not signed or anything). No wonder they’ve gone into receivership.1 Naturally, the owner of the bo

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