This song was sung at the recent St. Gregory the Great Banquet at St. Gregory’s Academy. The video is a fragment; it is a preview of what is to come later. The song is called “The Night Visiting Song” (Luke Kelley has a good version of it) and it was sung by my classmate Brendan […]
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Andrew Lytle on Kristin Lavransdatter
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Mar 2012
I recently discovered that the last thing Andrew Lytle published before he died at the ripe ol’ age of 92 was a book entitled Kristin: A Reading by Andrew Lytle. Naturally, he’s referring to the heroine of the medieval Norwegian saga: Kristin Lavransdatter. This is exciting on several levels—mainly that Kristin seems to be Lytle’s […]
How People Used to Sleep
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Mar 2012
Surprisingly, people used to sleep differently than we do today. Here’s a link to an article recently published at the BBC. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783. The short of it goes that before the advent of artificial lighting, people would go to sleep a couple of hours after the sun went down. They would then wake up in the […]
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