Off to the Land of Fiction!

[tealin]

I'm about to become even more incommunicado than I have been as I am leaving the continent tomorrow and will have sporadic internet access at best. I'll be back on July 1st (fate willing) but will probably be rendered pretty useless by jetlag for a couple days so don't expect much out of me.

In the meantime, here are

Actually there are three but one of them is a somewhat cruel illustration of a conversation I overheard that solved the question of the origin of the obesity crisis in America so that'll stay off the internet for now.

Branwen's brother, Bendigeidfran, approaches Ireland from Wales along with the fleet of 'The Mighty Isle,' as described in the Mabinogion. Apparently he is literally a mountain of a man, which makes me wonder how he did all that to the visiting king's horses... Bah, folklore, logic does not apply.

The central character in a rather Nanny Ogg-ish French Canadian folk song: a pretty young girl goes to the mill and asks 'Oh good miller, would you like to grind my grain?' He agrees to do so; she falls asleep under the hypnotic rhythm of the mill, and when she wakes up – 'Oh! My little bag is full! What will I tell my mother?' Tsk tsk.