Once upon a time a man came to Odin and the deities
and said that he would build a defensive wall if, as
a reward he would get Freya for his bride, plus, he
would do it at the length of winter, if he was even
one day late, he would have to give up his reward. The
gods agreed to this, and the man got started on his job.
It was three days ‘til winter was over and the man had only one
part left when the gods realized that the man was going
to get it done on time and they did not want to give up
Freya. So they turned on Loki and commanded him to do
something about it. The next day, when the man was going
to the rock quarries to get more rock, a horse appeared
at the edge of the forest. The man’s horse broke loose
when it saw the other horse dash away into the forest
after a series of neighing, the man ran after it and
finally caught it but he was not able to finish the wall in
time and when he tried to get his reward anyway, and
the gods refused, the man grew, and grew very quickly
until his size depicted him as a Mountain Giant, the
gods, forgetting their agreement, quickly sent for Thor,
who came faster then the message had been sent.

Thor immediately threw his hammer
which killed the Mountain Giant and he never moved again.

In an earlier reveiw I talked about the book Prince Caspian, now, I am going to talk about the movie.

It starts  out when Miraz's baby is born and when that happens the Professor swiftly goes to the Prince's room and wakes him up, going through the side door, they get out of the room, Prince Caspian watches as Miraz's men surround the bed and shoot the bed in which they think Prince Caspian is in.

Prince Caspian Flees

The Professor

Prince Caspian gets on his horse and receives Susan's horn as a gift from the Professor. He rides off closely pursued, he dashes into the forest and the pursuers hesitate and then ride into the wood after him they come out of the wood to  a clearing and in to a big river when he is almost to the other side the telmarines plunge in Prince Caspin, on dry land again, flees into the forest on the other side the pusuers do the same but Caspian is ahead after some time he looks behind him and smiles but he isn't paying attention to what is in front of him, and gets knocked off his horse. Two dwarfs appear from the door in the side of a bank and approach him but they see the pursuers, one goes to meet the pursuers and the other sees to Caspian, who is laying on the ground when the dwarf gets nearer and Prince Caspian blows on his horn which is supposed to bring you help when you need it, The scene ends there and the rest of the movie is even better there is a joust and a battle afterward. I have some pictures and I will put them in the order of the movie.

The Pevensies look at their surroundings

The Pevensie's find almost all their treasures

Lucy laughs at Trumpkin the dwarf

Caspian goes to Trufflehunter's rescue

Reepicheep kills some Telmarines

Glenstorm fights against Miraz

The Pevensies enter Aslan's How

Peter makes plans

Edmund speaks to Miraz and his court

Caspian X getting ready to kill Miraz

The attack after the duel

William Moseley and Ben Barnes get ready for battle

Caspian charges underground

The army watches as Aslan fights the battle for them

Aslan roars for the river god to come to life

We will now speak of the religion of the Persians;
how Zoroaster changed their most ancient religion.
This is how it happened: when Zoroaster appeared
it was a pretty different religion than when he died,
you see the first religion came with duplicate gods
and Zoroaster made the religion with only one god
and with duplicate signs Ormuzd, the heart of all
light and purity, whose signs are the sun, the
light, and fire. When Alexander the Great came
through they let go of it but when the Arabs
came through they were forced to give it up
and those who didn’t ran away and now live
around the North-Western part of India.
They have a song that goes something like this:

Yes! I am of that impious race,
Those slaves of Fire, that morn and even
Hail their creator’s dwelling-place
Among the living lights of heaven

Yes! I am of that outcast crew
To Iran and vengeance true,
Who curse the hour your Arabs came
To desecrate our shrines of fire,
And swear before God’s burning eye,
To break our country’s chains or die.

There were two brothers named Trophonius and Agamedes. They were very good builders. They built the temple of Apollo and also the treasury of King Hyrieus but they built the treasury in such a way that a stone would be able to move and let them in. So it happened that King Hyrieus noticed that his treasures were slowly decreasing from his treasury. He also knew that the locks and bolts lay untouched. So he set out traps in his treasury and when the brothers came to steal Agamedes fell into the trap. Trophonius then worried that if the king found Agamedes there he might also be accused and so he cut off Agamedes’ head and it is said that not long after Trophonius was swallowed up by the ground.

from Bulfinch's Mythology

Now that we are coming to a conclusion we must consider the end of the world for at the beginning
we have talked about the starting of the world. Here Æneas’ adventures in the infernal regions are
told by a poet:

When Æneas and Sibyl entered, they met a horrible sight; the Infernal Deities were everywhere
but after they passed them they saw a boat with a stern driver who would not let people who
did not have real grave rites across to the other side. They were approaching the boat when
Palinurus approached them and Æneas wanted to know how he had floated away so easily and Palinurus
answered that he had caught the rudder but the rudder had broken and he had been swept away with
the current. He then begged to be taken across the river with them and Sibyl said not to mention
such nonsense and that he would soon be able to go across the river for some people had found his
body and was going to give him his burial rites. They then went towards the boat and they were
about to not be allowed on the boat when Sibyl showed him the golden branch then he was satisfied
and he quickly  turned the bow of his boat to the other bank immediately. When they landed they
heard wailing voices and went on with their journey as they went along Æneas thought he saw Dido
in the shadows but he wasn’t sure so he stepped closer and behold! There she was and Æneas said to her:
“Unhappy Dido! So the rumor of your death is true! And I the cause! Stay long enough for us to say our
last farewells.” He then followed her and after their silent farewells went back to join his companion
on their journey. They then come to a fork in the road and one road led to where his father was and the
other led to a castle but to get there you had to pass iron gates which neither mortal nor immortal could
brake. And there at the gate there stood the guard; the furies. They then took to the other road and soon
reached the Elysian Fields where they could breath much easier. They saw a group of men and Sibyl asked
where Anchises could be found and they were directed to the place and when they reached him tears flowed
freely. Æneas then endeavored to enfold his father in an embrace but his arms enclosed only an unsubstantial
image. They then talked and Anchises prophesied the future and after that they took leave of him and went back
by some shortcut which the poet does not explain.

At the same time as the exiles arrived at the city, Dido, the Queen of the Tyrians, who was married to Sichæus, a man of immense wealth. However, Pygmalion, brother to Dido, coveted the wealth of Sichæus and caused him to be killed and started on his way to collect the riches of Sichæus. Meanwhile, Dido collected all her husband’s riches and set out with many vessels and they happened to land at the very same city as did Æneas a few days after. When Dido reached the city she asked from the natives for only enough land that a cow’s hide could fit around it. The natives readily gave her the land and she went out to measure it, she cut the cow’s hide into strips and tied them together and on that land she built a fort and around that would later grow up to form the great city Carthage. Æneas and his clan were warmly welcomed and Dido soon came to love Æneas and wanted to marry him. However, Æneas had to go and although Dido pleaded and endeavored him to stay he went and when she found that he had went she threw himself on top of a grave mound that she had made and killed herself. Somehow or other a fire burst up on the mound and it soon grew to be a humongous bonfire so it could be seen from all Carthage and when Æneas saw the fire from a little way out he did not know for sure but in his heart he guessed correctly.

The following epigram we find in “Elegant Extracts”:

From the Latin

Unhappy, Dido, was thy fate
In first and second married state!
One husband caused thy flight by dying
Thy death the other caused by flying.

This is hilarious! These Go Kart riders had to steal 247 baby coach wheels! The odd number was because 'old man Harold' had a continental.

Ulysses had been warned by Circe about Charybdis and Scylla.
Scylla, as we know, had been turned into a serpent by Circe, Scylla was a beutiful maiden that was now a serpent. She lived in a cave and when a ship passed by, she threw out her heads as far as they could go, (she had six of them)and with each head she ate up one sailor. When Charybdis saw some sailors sailed past, he made sure that he had a whirlpoolwaiting for them. As soon as Ulysses heard the roar of Charybdis's whirlpool. They were on the look out for both monsters,but more so for Charybdis than for Scylla. Not long afterward she came flying out of her cave and caught up six men and went screaming back into her cave. Ullysses looked sadly after them as he saw them go.

Circe had also warned Ulysses about the island of Thrinakia, the island of Hyperion, the sun,  whose cattle were grazing there, tended by his daughters, Lampetia and Phaëthusa. She strictly told him not to touch them; even if the provisions ran out they were not to touch the cattle because if they did, something terrible would happen to them.

So they sailed, on and on, until they came to the island that Circe had warned Ulysses about, and so they landed there, even though Ulysses wanted to go find another Island to land on. But he made them swear an oath that no man would ever kill and/or eat one of the forbidden cattle. After they landed, there came a great storm and they could not sail away for many-a-day and their provisions ran out, they soon had to hunt for birds and fish for fish as much as they could. But soon the men could bear it no longer, and when Ulysses went away to the ship they all ran to the pasture, threw their spears, and were soon cooking it greedily. When Ulysses came back he wept with grief, but soon spirits were roused the next day, the storm had stopped and a fair gale was blowing! They all got things ready, struck sail, and sailed away.

They had not gone far when the storm came again! It blew the ship apart and Ulysses was lucky enough to find a raft-like piece of broken ship and clung onto it while the gale swept him ashore on the island of Calypso. All the rest of the crew perished.

Their next adventure was at the island where the barbarous
Læstygonians lived. When the fleet got there, all of the ships exept for the one that Ulysses was on, headed for what it seemed like, a perfect deserted cove. Now when the Læstygonians saw them coming, they got ready, as soon as the ships were near enough, they dropped huge rocks on the ships and over turned them. When the poor sailors were in the water, struggling for their life, the Læstygonians speared them. Now when Ulysses saw this, he bade his men row away and while they greived for their companians, their greif was mixed with their happyness for their escape.

As they rowed away they sighted another island, and headed for it. Soon Ulysses could see a  beutiful palace and told his men to row forth with all speed and  they soon reached the island. Then Ulysses got half the crew together and form a scouting party; he put Eurylochus in charge of them and sent them out. The men soon came upon a large opening that was filled with men that Circe, the enchanter had made into wild animals. But the men bravely walked through them and found that they were tame. When they came to the palace gates, Circe came out and asked them to come in. All of them but their leader, Eurylochus said would. When the men, (all except Eurylochus, of course!) sat down to eat and be entertained, they were turned into swine, head, tail, feet, and bones. Now of course when Eurylochus saw this he ran back to tell his master, Ulysses. So then Ulysses went off to rescue his freinds. However, as he was on the way up there, he met a sheperd who claimed to be Mercury, and Mercury tried to disuade Ulysses from going to Circe. But when he learned that Ulysses would not turn back, he gave Ulysses a sprig of a Molly that would help him fight against Circe’s sorcery. So Ulysses went on his way and went through the  opening with wild animals in it, and strait to the palace gates. Circe asked him to come in, but when he sat down he  didn’t turn into anything, instead, he pounced upon Circe and at the same time he drew his sword. Circe begged for mercy and he gave it to her, providing she swore an oath that she would turn Ulysses’ crew back to a man crew instead of a group of swine. She did, and soon everything was back to normal again. But as they set off, she told Ulysses about the dangers of the island that they would have to pass, about the Sirens and she also told them how they could avoid the song of the Sirens’. She said that Ulysses should put wax in the sailors ears, and he should order that he be tied with chains to the mast of the ship, and he did what she told him and they past the island safely and went on their way.

The Lotus Eaters were nice to Ulysses and his crew and were even nice enough to give them their food that they ate, Lotus Herbs. Now the Lotus Herbs make you want to stay on that island forever and ever and ever. Ulysses had a hard time dragging his crew away; he even had to tie them to their benches to row!

       The next island they went to was an island with a Cyclops on it, and the Cyclops asked them who they were, and where they came from, when they had answered that they were Greeks and that they had just finished the conquest of Troy, and that they were going home, he then finished with saying that they were loyal to the gods. The Cyclops then thought a little bit and then snatched up two of Ulysses’ friends and smashed them against the wall and smashed their brains out and ate them. He picked up the others, (Including Ulysses) and brought them inside his house. The next day he did the same he ate up two more of Ulysses’ friends after he smashed two poor men’s brains out. Next the Cyclops went to sleep; Ulysses went up to him and pierced his sword through his enemy’s
eye.

        The Cyclops awoke in anger, but after a while cooled down and started to let his sheep out. Then Ulysses had an idea, the Cyclops was feeling the backs and the sides to make sure they didn’t go out, he didn’t even think of their bellies. So they got out on the sheep’s bellies, Ulysses went last. They reached the ship and rowed away, when they had gone a little way, Ulysses called out to the Cyclops, the Cyclops turned and hurled a rock toward where the voice was coming from. The mass landed a few feet beside them and pushed them toward land, Ulysses wanted to tell the giant he had missed, but agreed to go a safe distance away before doing so.

       Next they went to the Island of Æolus. To this Monarch Jupiter had intrusted the government of the winds, to send them forth or retain them at will. He treated Ulysses well and when he left, he gave him a bag, tied up in a silver string, such winds that would be hurtful, and commanded fair winds to help him back to Greece. So Ulysses stood at the helm of the ship nine days and then he was so tired that he slept the tenth. Now the crew suspected that the bag contained precious treasures given by the good Æolus, and tempted to secure a portion for themselves, they untied the string, and all the hurtful winds came and blew them off course and they had to row back to Greece.

A seagull in our town by the Black Sea......

.....and another bird which I had a hard time taking a picture of.

Sounds like someone I know......