This is a sideblog - my main is @drakatzen. This is where I'll post quotes from books that I'm (re)reading and store ones that I like - it's likely to skew somewhat academic, but there's plenty of fiction too.
My primary interests are linguistics (with a focus on historical linguistics, figurative language, and philology), history (particularly anything pre-early modern, likely focusing on the greater continent of Eurasia), archaeology, the natural world, mythology and folklore, fairies (and other spirits/figures from folklore), ghosts and other forms of the undead, magic and occultism, death (thanatology), fantasy literature, detective fiction, (gothic) horror, and the craft and art of language, storytelling, and writing overall. Expect a number of quotes concerning Old English, medieval literature, epics and sagas, folk beliefs, figurative language, monsters, ghosts, the uncanny, and so on.
Books quoted so far:
Roger B. Salomon, Mazes of the Serpent: An Anatomy of Horror Narrative (2002)
Filip Missuno, ‘Shadow’ and Paradoxes of Darkness in Old English and Old Norse Poetic Language (doctoral thesis, 2012)
Nancy Caciola, Afterlives: The Return of the Dead in the Middle Ages (2016)













