The-World-of-the-Vikings-_-Richard-Hall

Vikings

oana April 16, 2019 No Comments

Good warriors, great sailors, explorers, berserker, Odin, Thor, Loki, a magic hammer, Norway, ship burial rites. This was basically the extent of my knowledge regarding Vikings, without any particular interest to find out more about them. Also, I knew the Normans were somehow connected with the Vikings but had no clear idea of why and how, that is until I binge watched the TV Show.… Read more

PLBC - 01 - Mrs Rosie and the Priest - Giovanni Boccaccio

Mrs Rosie and the Priest – Boccaccio | PLBC01

oana January 5, 2019 No Comments

The first book from the Penguin’s Little Black Classics collection of 80 works includes four short stories by Giovanni Boccaccio placed in the fourteenth-century Florence. They are but a sample from “The Decameron”, where we can find 100 stories in total told by a group of people trying to kill time while they spend two weeks in isolation in a villa to avoid the Black Death.

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