tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post5176699580507947282..comments2024-03-23T12:38:46.260+00:00Comments on The History Girls: The “Little Dark People” - by Katherine LangrishMary Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-66074864317351105572017-06-05T11:40:20.225+01:002017-06-05T11:40:20.225+01:00I never thought of that connection, Leslie - fasci...I never thought of that connection, Leslie - fascinating. I must re-read that book! Katherine Langrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529700103932422873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-80397872676279511352017-06-04T19:32:26.010+01:002017-06-04T19:32:26.010+01:00A very interesting blog. In Malefice, I referred t...A very interesting blog. In Malefice, I referred to that legend when Alice the witch told the Vicar that the fairies were the dead. The story comes up in Arthur Ransome's 'The Picts and the Martyrs' incidentally my favourite of all the Swallows and Amazons books, where Dick and Dorothea become hidden Picts. Dorothea finds it scary that as far as the Great Aunt is concerned, she doesn't exist and I think her reflection in this is part of what makes the story so good. It's like the idea of a hidden group of people, closer to the earth than us, reflects something in our subconscious, some sense of what we once were, hunter gatherers?Leslie Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15105465949970430998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-70168936928599308432017-06-04T09:19:10.707+01:002017-06-04T09:19:10.707+01:00In support of your argument that the Elves equal t...In support of your argument that the Elves equal the dead, there's also the grave-mounds which, in sagas, open to reveal the dead feasting inside. The grave mound was the 'hall' of the dead man.<br />Then there are the 'hogs' back' tombstones from the late Viking Age, when paganism and Christianity met. They're called 'hog's back' because they look rather like the back of an 'iron-age' hog - but they also resemble a Viking long-house.Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.com