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25.01.2022 Want to hear about the Viking families who settled on Iceland in the Middle Ages? The tales of blood feuds, dangerous women, and people who are compelled to kil...l the ones they love the most? Join Richard Fidler and Kári Gíslason in for a compelling conversation about their new book 'Saga Land' at Gleebooks on 2nd November. Tickets available here: http://tinyurl.com/y9pflgst

24.01.2022 Wishing you all the very best over Yule Fest. May your drinking horn never empty and your hearth fire continue to offer welcome and comfort to friend and kinsman alike.

23.01.2022 Manny thanks to Phil Glen, who has just sent through the draft image of Beowulf’s helmet. As mentioned earlier, the original image was a low res version and so was not suitable to be enlarged for poster production. He has weaved digital magic, to turn what was a CG flat-pack (see previous post) into a high res 3D image, great work Phil.

23.01.2022 A little snippet from Jake's doco on our Beowulf production. 2014

21.01.2022 Making chain mail requires a lot of patience and a very steady hand... https://eht.social/2y9vcUB

21.01.2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO2KSqiP3N4

20.01.2022 The new poster design for the up coming production, features Beowulf's helmet against a Norse talisman, partly visible in the background . The talisman incorporating the Vigvisir (norse compass) within a runic circle. The Vegvisir, is associated with being able to steer a traveler safely through all weathers and so is associated with protection. Design: Christie Torrington.

18.01.2022 Excerpt from the doco "Making of Beowulf". Tamara Killick explaining the construction process for a shadow puppet.

15.01.2022 how does Beowulf spend his summers?

15.01.2022 VIKING RUNES Surrounding the Vegvisir (viking compass) on the Beowulf poster is a Runic Circle, compressing of all the 24 runes, known as the Elder Futhark runic alphabet. These are the oldest form of runes and like the story of Beowulf, their origin is shrouded in mystery. Believed to date back to as early as the first century, they are in fact Germanic not Scandinavian in origin. Although commonly associated with the Viking era, the runic alphabet was widely used through out northern Europe as well as Scandinavia and Iceland. As Viking settlements formed in occupied countries, so to did the runes as a written language. In England, Scotland and Ireland, various forms where still in popular used well into the middle ages.

14.01.2022 From the cast and creative crew of BEOWULF, we wish you all a safe and happy New Year and look foreward to seeing you on tour in 2018.

13.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/CastlefestOfficial/videos/1580454831969156/?__mref=message_bubble

13.01.2022 Visual artist and designer, Christie Torrington discusses her approach for the Beowulf poster.

12.01.2022 It is more than just glaciers that are locked in that frozen landscape of Iceland, as much of what we know of the Viking age, surprisingly come from there. Iceland was settled by Vikings around 870ad and where in Europe most of the Old Norse legends (including runic writing) where lost to Christianity, Iceland maintain them up until relatively recent times. Although Beowulf has no direct connection with Iceland, traces of the mythology that he comes from can be found in Icelandic sagas. And so makes interesting ready for anyone wanting to know more of the world of Beowulf.

10.01.2022 ODIN AND THE RUNES It is said that the Norse God Odin was responsible for discovering the runes. So the legend tells, Odin in search of knowledge, hung from the Yggdrasil Tree (world tree) for 9 days and 9 nights. Wounded by his own blade as a blood sacrifice unto himself, he hung there above the world without food or drink until he spied in the depths of the Well of Urd, the runes and snatched them up. And so the runes where given to mankind.

10.01.2022 cool wood furnace shared from another site not my work!

08.01.2022 Good luck to you in your travels! As featured on the Beowulf poster, this good luck pendent features the Runic Circle, surrounding the Vegvisir (viking compass). It is said that the wearer will never be lost and will safely sail through mist and storm.

05.01.2022 Sneak preview of Beowulf's new helmet. As featured on the poster, this helmet is a reproduction of Beowulf's helmet in the 2005 film directed by Sturla Gunnarsson, "Beowulf & Grendel". Although not based on an actual item, the design draws upon typical battle helmets of the period.

05.01.2022 A couple of afterdark pics from Dragon Dreaming performances.

03.01.2022 A key element in the play is the use of shadow puppets to help convey not only the background story but also to create the atmosphere of a medieval play. What better way to tell the tale of creatures of the shadows, than with shadows!

03.01.2022 BEOWULF’S HELMENT In spite of the almost universal image of the Horned Viking raider, there is no evidence to suggest they ever wore helmets with horns or even wings for that matter. The helmet that appears on the Beowulf poster is a reconstruction of what would have been typically worn by a Viking nobleman. Due to the nature of the helmets (being mainly iron) very few examples exists, with to date only one complete helmet having ever been found.

02.01.2022 The long loss helmet that features on the Beowulf poster has been finally found. Turns out that the original artwork was a CG image by Turbo Squid. We have now purchased the said files and will hopefully be able to reconstruct a high res image suitable for the large format touring poster. The image is of a flat-pack helmet ready for layering.