One foot in ice and one in fire

[sovay]

The glacier under which Loki lies bound is Vatnajökull, the lake-glacier. This is not the glacier whose recent volcanic eruption has closed airspace in much of northern Europe on account of the fallout ash turns to glass in jet engines. But given the massive international chaos Eyjafjallajökull is generating, what do you bet Loptr takes credit for it anyway?

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[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

“Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get it under control. I trust you are not in too much distress.”

Nine

[sovay]

“Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get it under control. I trust you are not in too much distress.”

There'll always be an England at 30,000 feet.

[madwriter.livejournal.com]

If I hadn't already known it, I could've guessed that the captain was British just by the concluding sentence in his announcement. :)

[alankria.livejournal.com]

I love my country-folk sometimes.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I'd never make a bet on anything to do with Loki, but he's bound to be taking credit for it, I reckon.

[sovay]

I'd never make a bet on anything to do with Loki

Okay, yeah, that's fair.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Now I am in Ireland
Now I am at a third remove.

Not one of Hopkins's most hiberno-friendly lines, but my flight back to Bristol's due to leave tomorrow. Fingers crossed...

[sovay]

Not one of Hopkins's most hiberno-friendly lines, but my flight back to Bristol's due to leave tomorrow. Fingers crossed...

Hermes go with you!

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Hermes has re-booked me onto a Monday morning ferry to Holyhead...

[sovay]

Hermes has re-booked me onto a Monday morning ferry to Holyhead...

I guess it's that or apply for residency . . .

[papersky.livejournal.com]

I expect they're all connected somewhere down there in the fire and ice.

And now I understand global warming.

[sovay]

I expect they're all connected somewhere down there in the fire and ice.

I think you're right.

And now I understand global warming.

It's a slow-burning Ragnarök.

[timesygn.livejournal.com]

Loki is being anything but low-key ... *snerk*

[sovay]

Loki is being anything but low-key ...

(Seriously, reading American Gods, I was supposed to be not made suspicious by a character named "Low Key Lyesmith"?)

[timesygn.livejournal.com]

I shall have to check Gods back out of the library and pick up where I left off. Gaiman is still a relatively new presence in my world.

So many books. So little time.

[sovay]

I shall have to check Gods back out of the library and pick up where I left off.

It didn't blow my mind, actually. I think Neil Gaiman loves Norse mythology, but I am not convinced by his handling of it—his Loki is consistently too much like the Lokasenna and not enough like all the other aspects of this shape-changing trickster.

[timesygn.livejournal.com]

Norse stuff is difficult to get a handle on, frankly, both in a literary and a ritual sense. I feel a bit sorry for my Asatru friends who must placate these weird, tempermental gods ...

Which leads to a question on ancient myth and ritual that I've been worrying at so far without result. Perhaps you can help? I shall e-mail it to you privately via LJ ...

[mmseason.livejournal.com]

Michael Scott Rohan?

(Landed here from papersky. Hi! (How do i link to a username...?))

[sovay]

Michael Scott Rohan?

Never read him. What do you recommend!

Landed here from papersky. Hi!

Hello! Pleased to meet you.

(How do i link to a username...?)

Take out the spaces:

< lj - user = [insert username here] >

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

I went to a reading when it first came out and the whole audience began chuckling knowingly at that point.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

It's what I'd do.

[sovay]

It's what I'd do.

You're awesome.

[zdenka]

I have nothing useful to say, but I have an icon.

[sovay]

I have nothing useful to say, but I have an icon.

It's a good icon.

[alankria.livejournal.com]

Dad fears that when I return, it will be to an England turned into Pompeii with my family preserved in their mundane daily acts.

[sovay]

Dad fears that when I return, it will be to an England turned into Pompeii with my family preserved in their mundane daily acts.

Poem!

[alankria.livejournal.com]

Ash turning to glass in plane engines is certainly poetic.

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

And freaky. Yikes.

[janni.livejournal.com]

I blame the fire giants myself, but it wouldn't be the first time Loki's in league with giants.

I bet there are underground fireways through which he could get word from Vatnajökull to Eyjafjallajökull ...

[sovay]

I bet there are underground fireways through which he could get word from Vatnajökull to Eyjafjallajökull ...

The lesser eruptions are code.

[janni.livejournal.com]

And all that ash in the air so much chatter.