Declan Shalvey
Auteur van Injection, Volume 1
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- 1982-01-11
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- Dublin, Ireland
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The characters form a strong cast, with parallels noticeably resembling other famous fictional people (Vivek Headland is Sherlock Holmes, Simeon Winters is James Bond, Brigid Roth is Doctor Who, Maria Kilbride is Bernard Quatermass, and Robin Morel (cunning -man) is Carnacki the Ghost-Finder).
I love the storyline, intertwined with mythology, horror, science fiction, crime fiction. This novel was a direct inspiration to me to read The Kalevala.
I am sorry the novel was never completed, but very glad the last instalment covered Brigid's exploits, as she is my favourite character.
Some of my favourite contents here:
Ridgeway, green man, spriggans (to break the spriggan's control turn your clothing inside-out), piskie (old word for pixie), ringing rocks when tapped, sound a tone, "lithophone", can be found in found in "Carn Menyn", Wayland the Smith (Wayland story in Edda, famed in the legends of the pagan north ... He has been compared to the Finnic Kalevala god-hero Ilmarinen. The Cold House. Stone circles. Tor. Rings considered ways into the Other World. Fougous. Cornwall, Saint Mellion (name is a corruption of Merlin), way east of Mellion Tor.
Some of my favourite quotes here:
"Myth and legend are the carrier waves of true history. There's always a piece of fact lifted along with the story"
"Old England is coming back."
"Myth is how we used to transmit knowledge. Myths are facts embedded in stories worth retelling.
"Poetry was how oral history survived put into rhyme to make it easier to remember."… (meer)