One unexpected aspect of Val Thomas’s book ‘Of Chalk & Flint’ is this: it provides an interesting insight into the activities of a community of magickal practitioners. Not necessarily in terms of an organised coven, secret confraternity or structured school, but a loose group of folk who come together at key points in the year to perform ritual and engage with the land and its spiritual denizens. Val quite often prefers ‘we’ over the personal pronoun ‘I’ and there’s a […]
Tag: St Edmund
INTERVIEW: MARKKU KLÆÐSKERI
Markku Klæðskeri’s important work ‘The Autumn King: Ivar the Boneless, Edmund of East Anglia and the cult of Yngvi-freyr’ will shortly be published by Nemglan Press. We interviewed the author about some of the book’s major topics. Why did you choose to write about Ivar the Boneless and St Edmund? Primarily because there’s a mystery to be solved. In fact, there’s more than one. The main question I wanted to answer was: why did Ivar kill King Edmund in the […]