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This Kermodei bear is hibernating a few hundred metres from our neighbours' house under an old tree stump. He's awake enough to track you with his eyes, but he doesn't even move around at all, he's so sleepy. We were very quiet and went in one at a time to take photos.
Left to right: Superintendent C. Parsons, Hilton Kermode, S/O William (Bill) Brown, Superintendent Arthur McLennan.
Image courtesy J. MacFarlane
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c. 1972. Left to right: Hilton Kermode, R. Smith, Terry Killen, Rod Doherty, Trevor Avery, Bill Brown, Jack Griffiths, Arthur McLennan, Oscar Watts, Frank Smith, Terry Daunt, Harold McLennan, Basil Ralston.
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No. 2 - 4 Momentoes from my visit to Sweden - Göteborg (Gothenburg)
A TROLL
- is a member of a race of fearsome creatures from Norse mythology.
Scandinavian folklore
History
- the usage of the word troll has developed over time. It might have had the original meaning of supernatural or magical with an overlay of malignant and perilous. Another likely suggestion is that it means "someone who behaves violently". In old Swedish law, trolleri was a particular kind of magic intended to do harm]. It should also be noted that North Germanic terms such as trolldom (witchcraft) and trolla/trylle (perform magic tricks) in modern Scandinavian languages does not imply any connection with the mythical being. Moreover, in the sources for Norse mythology, troll can signify any uncanny being, including but not restricted to the Norse giants (jötnar).
In Skáldskaparmál, the poet Bragi Boddason encounters a troll-woman who hails him with this verse (in Old Norse):
Troll kalla mik
tungl sjötrungnis,
auðsug jötuns,
élsólar böl,
vilsinn völu,
vörð náfjarðar,
hvélsvelg himins –
hvat's troll nema þat?
- "Bragi & Tröllkona: Lausavísur". www.hi.is/~eybjorn/ugm/skindex/bragilv2.html.
They call me Troll;
Gnawer of the Moon,
Giant of the Gale-blasts,
Curse of the rain-hall,
Companion of the Sibyl,
Nightroaming hag,
Swallower of the loaf of heaven.
What is a Troll but that?
"Traces of the Norse Mythology in the Isle of Man, by P,M.C. Kermode [1904]". sacred-texts.com. www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/tnm/tnm02.htm.
The ambiguous original meaning of the word troll appears to have lived on for some time after the Old Norse literature was documented. This can be seen in terms such as sjötrollet (the sea troll) as a synonym for havsmannen (the sea man) – a protective spirit of the sea and a sort of male counterpart to the female sjörå.
There are many places in Scandinavia that are named after trolls, such as the Swedish town Trollhättan (Troll's bonnet) and the legendary mountain Trollkyrka (Troll church). The most famous in Norway are Trollfjorden, Trollheimen, Trollhetta, Trollstigen, Trolltindan and Trollveggen.
The Jætte Trolls
Two gradually developing main traditions regarding the use of troll can be discerned. In the first tradition, the troll is large, brutish and a direct descendant from the Norse jötnar. They are often described as ugly or having beastly features like tusks or cyclopic eyes. This is the tradition which has come to dominate fairy tales and legends, but it is also the prominent concept of troll in Norway. As a general rule, what would be called a "troll" in Norway would in Denmark and Sweden be a "giant" (jætte or jätte, related to jötunn/jotunn in Jotunheimen).
In some Norwegian accounts, such as the Middle-Age ballade Åsmund Frægdegjevar, the trolls live in a far northern land called Trollebotten – the concept and location of which seems to coincide with the Old Norse Jötunheimr.
Wikipedia - description begun under 1 - 4 now to be continued under the 3 - 4.
To see this Large:-
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Xavier the Mountain Goat
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Peachy the Fox
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Kit the Kermode Bear
A sculpture of the Manx poet and playwright, Cushag (Josephine Kermode), by Joseph Swinnerton, now located in the cafe of the Manx Museum in Douglas.
Cushag is regarded by many as the Isle of Man's second greatest poet (after T. E. Brown). She was born in Ramsey in 1852 and lived to the age of 84, dying in 1937. She published five books of poetry and a number of plays.
Joseph Swinnerton (1848-1910) was a Manx sculptor who lived most of his working life in Italy.
Cushag on the Manx Literature website: manxliterature.com/browse-by-author/cushag/
Cushag on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Kermode
Parkmill (Welsh: Melin y Parc) is a village in the Gower Peninsula, South Wales, midway between the villages of Penmaen and Ilston, about eight miles (13 km) west of Swansea, and about one mile (1.5 km) from the north coast of the Bristol Channel. The village lies to the north of the A4118, the main South Gower road between Swansea and Port Eynon, in a wooded area, at the bottom of a valley.
The building at the centre of the village is a former school that is now home to the West Glamorgan Girl Guides Activity Centre. Pennard golf course lies immediately to the south of the village. Parkmill is in the Gower ward of the City and County of Swansea.
Parkmill's only religious building is the Mount Pisgah United Reformed Church, a Congregational chapel, erected in 1822 and rebuilt in 1890.
The area is little changed from the mid 19th century, when Samuel Lewis said in his 'A Topographical Dictionary of Wales' (1849):
The hamlet of Park-Mill, forming the most populous part of the parish, [Ilston] is yet extremely rural; and the surrounding scenery, which is characterized by features of tranquillity and seclusion, is enlivened by the small rivulet called Pennarth Pill, winding along a beautiful dell, in which are the ruins of an ancient chapel. On this stream a cloth manufactory was established early in the present century, but it has been discontinued.
The 'cloth manufactory', a 12th-century water-powered corn and saw mill, at Parkmill has since been renovated and a rural crafts centre sited in it, called the Gower Heritage Centre.
Parkmill once lay within a Medieval deer park, Parc le Breos, which was established in the 1221–32 CE by John de Braose, Marcher Lord of Gower as an enclosed area of about 2,000 acres (800 hectares). As well as the deer, during the 14th century the park received an income from agistment, pannage, sales of wild honey, ferns and dead wood and from rabbits, though whether these were domestic warrens or free warrens is not known.
The park is now mainly farmland and has a 19th-century Hunting Lodge, which is now an hotel and pony trekking (horse riding) centre called Parc le Breos, built about one mile (1.6 km) east north east of Parkmill
The Parc Cwm long cairn, or Parc le Breos burial chamber, is a partly restored, prehistoric, megalithic chambered long barrow, built between 5,800 BP and 6,000 BP (before present), during the early Neolithic period, about three quarters of a mile (1.1 km) north west of Parkmill.
The cromlech is located in Coed-y-Parc, on the floor of a dry narrow valley in about 500 acres (2.0 km2) of woodland, owned and managed by Forest Enterprise (Wales), in a limestone gorge, at an elevation of about 50 feet (15 m) above sea level. Pedestrian access is allowed and is free, with free parking available for 12–15 cars about 650 feet (200 m) from the site. On the opposite side of the lane to the car park a kissing gate, wide enough for a wheelchair to pass through, leads to an asphalt track that runs past the cromlech and the length of the gorge, allowing flat, disabled access to within about ten feet (3 m) of the site. Parc le Breos burial chamber is maintained by Cadw (English: to keep), the Welsh Historic Environment Agency.
There are caves further along Parc Cwm valley, Cathole Cave and Llethryd tooth cave, which have been used from Mesolithic to Medieval times. In the Neolithic period, corpses may have been placed in the caves until they had decomposed, before the bones were moved to the cromlech.
La Charrette is recognised by the British Film Institute as the smallest cinema in Wales. The 23-seat venue, built from a disused railway carriage, was sited in a back garden in Gorseinon, near Swansea, and began showing films in 1953.
The cinema was originally constructed and run by the late Gwyn Phillips (who died in 1996), who fell in love with the movies while working as a projectionist as a teenager. Safety concerns, following wear and tear to its wood-and-steel structure, caused La Charrette to close. A visit by film critic Mark Kermode for BBC2's The Culture Show, in October 2007, resulted in the tiny venue being given a special send-off in February 2008. The black tie event consisted of the world premiere of the Danny Boyle film Alien Love Triangle (2002), starring Kenneth Branagh, Alice Connor, Courteney Cox and Heather Graham. Branagh made a personal appearance at the screening, walking up the red carpet laid between two end of terrace houses in Gorseinon, before watching the film—and special messages recorded by Cox and Graham—with Kermode and Rita Phillips, Gwyn Phillips' widow.
After the screening, the cinema was dismantled. It was rebuilt at the Gower Heritage Centre, Parkmill, where it has reopened.
(C) Isabelle Adam
I was trying to photograph the horrifically grubby sign. Realised I was:
a) in shot for Mark Kermode doing a piece to camera,
b) seemingly trying to get on telly
c) in need of backing away a bit
GET OUT OF MY PHOTO, MARK KERMODE!
Alice in Wonderland
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The King and Queen of Hearts and the hookah-smoking Caterpillar, sculpted in plastilina clay on an aluminum armature by Imagineers Peter Kermode and Adolfo Procopio for the 1984 enhancement of "Alice in Wonderland."
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This Kermodei bear is hibernating a few hundred metres from our neighbours' house under an old tree stump. He's awake enough to track you with his eyes, but he doesn't even move around at all, he's so sleepy. We were very quiet and went in one at a time to take photos.
Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo's Code of Conduct for all cinema go-ers, please adhere to these rules at all times!
Freedom Of Expression Award 22nd March2004 .City Hall The Queen's Walk.John McCarthy & Girlfreind.Jonathan Freedland Nitin Sawhney Ann Leslie, Mark Kermode, Monica Ali, Sandi Toksvig, Caroline Moorehead, Geoffrey Hosking.Are host (Freedland) and judges attending Index on Censorship's fourth annual event honouring those in the world's media who have stood firm on free speech and censorship, plus a booby prize for the person/organisation that does the most to promote censorship. Winners last year included Fergal Keane and Al-Jazeera (Best Circumvention of Censorship). This year the awards are expanding to cover music, literature and film. . COPYRIGHT STEVE WOOD .WWW.STEVEWOOD.BIZ . Steve Wood (News & Pictures Service)Ê.Loft 1 Building 7.Shepherdess Walk Buildings.15/25 Underwood Street.Hackney.London N1 7LGÊ.www.stevewood.biz.0207 253 1945Ê.Stevewood3@aol.comÊ