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Sunday, April 25, 2004
Ancestuous
Your thin end for today:
I've just been reading about pilgrims. No, not the ones John Wayne was always grunting at, real pilgrims. The religious, zealous and intrepid wandering purveyors of God in the Middle Ages. And I bet when their turn came a few hundred years later that the Pilgrim Fathers did more than just thank God when they finally staggered off the Mayflower.
Anyway, back in the Middle Ages, there were wandering monks who hopped into little coracles (that's a boat, ignoramus) and set off to sea to spread the Hallelujah word to strange and exotic lands without even a spare pair of sandals or something to keep their yoghurt culture alive in. These monks were known as "perigrini", or "Pilgrim" a Middle English word from Old French peligrin, from Late Latin pelegrinus, alteration of Latin peregrinus (foreigner) and used to mean a traveller or wayfarer, or one who travels to a shrine or holy place as a devotee - on a pilgrimage I guess.
And that, dear reader, is also where the very cosmopolitan, 100 mile-an-hour peregrine or "wandering" falcon gets it's name; why we wander, rove and traverse life in our peregrinations and why one of Frodo Baggins' most trusted companions on the road was named Peregrine Took. Old J.R.R Tolkien knew his shit.
They were on a Pilgrimage, too.
Magik, huh?
That Billy Boyd is soooo cute, he can peregrinate my way any time he likes.
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I've just been reading about pilgrims. No, not the ones John Wayne was always grunting at, real pilgrims. The religious, zealous and intrepid wandering purveyors of God in the Middle Ages. And I bet when their turn came a few hundred years later that the Pilgrim Fathers did more than just thank God when they finally staggered off the Mayflower.
Anyway, back in the Middle Ages, there were wandering monks who hopped into little coracles (that's a boat, ignoramus) and set off to sea to spread the Hallelujah word to strange and exotic lands without even a spare pair of sandals or something to keep their yoghurt culture alive in. These monks were known as "perigrini", or "Pilgrim" a Middle English word from Old French peligrin, from Late Latin pelegrinus, alteration of Latin peregrinus (foreigner) and used to mean a traveller or wayfarer, or one who travels to a shrine or holy place as a devotee - on a pilgrimage I guess.
And that, dear reader, is also where the very cosmopolitan, 100 mile-an-hour peregrine or "wandering" falcon gets it's name; why we wander, rove and traverse life in our peregrinations and why one of Frodo Baggins' most trusted companions on the road was named Peregrine Took. Old J.R.R Tolkien knew his shit.
They were on a Pilgrimage, too.
Magik, huh?
That Billy Boyd is soooo cute, he can peregrinate my way any time he likes.
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