Deer Abbey....had to chuckle, at that.
Thanks for posting...very interesting info.
“the lost Monastery of Deer”
I think the Monastery of Deer has moved to our yard.
Black cultural appropriation in 5...4...3...2..
Those invisible monasteries are always hard to locate. It’s just by happenstance that one runs into them, and even recognizes what they have run into by happenstance. 🙂
You can’t swing a dead cat in the British Isles without passing over a cache of coins or the remains of a ruin.
Esther, "hidden".
Esther, aka the "Doe of the Dawn" (Ayeleth HaShahar), who for some odd reason had a green complexion according to the... sages.
The tradition is that King David prophetically composed Psalm 22 for Queen Esther, so that she'd have a little prayer of comfort and consolation while isolated in the palace all of those years, separated from her people.
I have seen strange things today (and yesterday).
Psalms 22
1 To the chief Musician, according to Ayeleth HaShahar, a Psalm of David:
2. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, from the words of my loud complaint:
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The belt, I ought to explain, was a leather band nearly four inches wide, the fastening being an ordinary plain, square, brass buckle. The belt was made of two thicknesses of leather stitched together all along the top and bottom edge; and it was a portion of this stitching along the top edge that struck me as differing somewhat in appearance from the rest.That I might the better inspect the stitching, I moved toward the window with the belt in my hand; and, as I did so, I ran the thick leather through my fingers. Surely the belt felt a shade thicker in that part than anywhere else! And was it only my fancy, or did I detect a faint sound as of the crackling of paper when I bent the belt at that spot in the act of raising it to the light? Was it possible that Richard Saint Leger had actually chosen so unlikely a spot as the interior of his sword-belt in which to hide the important document? And yet, after all, why unlikely? It would be as safe a place of concealment as any; for he doubtless wore the belt, if not the hanger, habitually; and therefore, by sewing the document up inside it, he would be sure of always having it upon his person, with scarcely a possibility of losing it.
Determined to solve the question forthwith, I whipped out my knife and carefully cut through the suspicious-looking stitches, thus separating the two thicknesses of leather along their upper edges for a length of about six inches; then, forcing the two edges apart, I peered into the pocket-like recess; and there, sure enough, was a small, compactly folded paper, which I at once withdrew and carefully unfolded. The result was the disclosure of the following incomprehensible document...
Overdue book returned to Pennsylvania library after nearly 120 years
"Keep your Card in this Pocket"
There is a song on the Blind Faith album.
Can’t Find My Way Home.
Really nice tune.
“Quantum foam makes me roam”
Seems like the apropos quote for this
Must have drunk too much of that Scotch Whiskey to lose a monastery.
Now if they can just locate the site of Mons Graupius, where Agricola won a victory in A.D. 84.