Appendix 1: "Balder the Beautiful Is Dead"...Sort Of.

We're taking this week off, but here's a quick reading of Longfellow's "Tegner's Drapa," a poem that acquainted the nine-year-old C.S. Lewis with an early sense of the sublime longing he called "Joy," and began to instill a love of what he called "Northernness."  A few ramblings-on about the poem and the myth of "Balder the Beautiful" are included at no extra cost.  Join us next week as we begin discussing Charles Williams' War in Heaven!   

The background music, by the way, is Wagner's "Lohengrin"!

Literature mentioned includes:

• Surprised by Joy
• "Tegner's Drapa" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Frithjof's Saga, (adapted) by Esaias Tegner
• Vafthruthnismal, a poem collected in the Elder Edda
• War in Heaven, by Charles Williams (read along with us--the Kindle version is $0.99!