By Andrew Michael Hurley
The eerie, suspenseful debut novel — hailed as “an awesome piece of fiction” via Stephen King — that's taking the realm by way of storm.
while the is still of a tender baby are came across in the course of a wintry weather typhoon on a stretch of the awful Lancashire beach referred to as the Loney, a guy named Smith is pressured to confront the terrifying and mysterious occasions that happened 40 years prior whilst he visited where as a boy. at the moment, his devoutly Catholic mom was resolute to discover therapeutic for Hanny, his disabled older brother. And so the kinfolk, in addition to individuals in their parish, launched into an Easter pilgrimage to an historic shrine. But no longer all the locals have been happy to determine viewers within the zone. And whilst the 2 brothers stumbled on their lives entangling with a glamorous couple staying at a close-by condo, they turned inquisitive about extra troubling rites. Smith feels he's the one one to grasp the reality, and he needs to undergo the weight of his wisdom, it doesn't matter what the price. Proclaimed a “modern classic” via the Sunday Telegraph (UK), The Loney marks the coming of a massive new voice in fiction.
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In these hagiographical texts, only the “official” divinities in one of the pantheons have a counterpart in the other. The gods and goddesses extraneous to both pantheons are kept in their original form and not adapted to the known frame of reference. In the same way the demons and evil spirits from exotic 24 11th International Saga Conference 25 lands are quoted with the names they have in the Latin sources. Obviously no need was felt to make them familiar to the Scandinavian audience. The most original and discussed passage about the pagan gods is undoubtedly the one from Clemens saga, on which Tveitane focused his attention in a paper on interpretatio Norrœna delivered at the 6th Saga Conference in Helsingør in 1985.
Sanctuarium, seu, Vitae sanctorum 2, Paris 1910. ] stundum i fiors liki, stundum Odins, stundum Freyiu, en stundum i Friggiar liki edr annarra heidinna manna (Martin3 61823-25 ) Agatha respondit: Sit talis uxor tua: qualis tua dea Venus fuit: et tu sis talis qualis deus tuus Iouis extitit (PassAgat 3816-18) Heilog mær svaradi: Ver flu sem gud flinn Odinn, en kona flin slik sem Freyia gydia flin (Agat1 231-32 ) But the equivalence between Mercurius and Ó›inn on the one hand and Jupiter and fiórr on the other is not so immediate in some other translations.
124. 14 The Latin source is quoted from Acta Sanctorum Ianuarii 2. 15 Saxo Grammaticus, Gesta Danorum, 6, 5, 4. 32 Simonetta Battista manente nostrorum assertione Iovem Mercurii filium exstitisse convincitur, apud quos Thor Othini genitus vulgari sententia perhibetur. Cum ergo Latini contrario opinionis tenore Mercurium Iove editum asseverunt, restat, ut constante eorum affirmatione Thor alium quam Iovem, Othinum quoque Mercurio sentiamus exstitisse diversum. From the analysis of the names of the planetary weekdays we learn that Jupiter corresponds to fiórr and Mercurius to Ó›inn.