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Philipp Foltz - Die Loreley

Hans Christian Anderson and Edvard Collin

The Little Mermaid was written as a love letter by Hans Christian Anderson to Edvard Collin. Anderson, upon hearing of Collin’s engagement to a young woman, proclaimed his love to him. He told him ”I long for you as though you were a beautiful Calabrian girl.” Edvard Collin turned Anderson down, disgusted. Anderson then wrote The Little Mermaid to symbolize his inability to have Collin just as a mermaid cannot be with a human. He sent it to Collin in 1936 and it goes down in history as one of the most profound love letters ever written.

Most scholars and psychoanalysts concluded that Anderson was bisexual; however, he never acted upon his homosexual drives.

The Little Mermaid, as it was originally written, did not have a happy ending.

Hey look that thing I mentioned last week.

Thu, 9th May • 89,604 notes

Stress munchies and hearing birds sing before I dream and not longing for anything except anything else. Welcome to finals. This is life.

Thu, 9th May • 4 notes

medieval:

Evangelistary (“Liber viventium”)
Parchment · 91 ff. · 31 x 20.5 cm · Churrätien · first quarter of the 9th century and 9th-14th centuries
(via e-codices)The Liber viventium Fabariensis is likely the most important surviving work of Rhaetish book art. This manuscript was originally designed as an Evangelistary and richly adorned with initials, frames for canonical tables and full-page illustrations of the symbols of the four evangelists. Starting in 830 the names of monks who joined the monastic community were listed in the empty canonical table frames, together with living and deceased benefactors of the abbey. In addition to its function as evangelistary, memorial and record of the monastic brotherhood, the Liber viventium was later also used to preserve the historial records and treasure catalog of Pfäfers Abbey. Because of the legal importance of the Liber viventium up to modern times, the volume is housed in the archival collection of Pfäfers Abbey. (kur)

oak-trees-willow-leaves:

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wodening:

Frigga in a chariot drawn by rams. This illustration is by the great Arthur Rackham.

Wed, 8th May • 36 notes

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thepoisondiaries:

The Alpine Sweetvetch (Hedysarum alpinum) commonly known as the ‘wild Eskimo potato’ can be found in northern temperate climates of North America. Native Alaskans use the spring roots as a staple food source. Though not supported by science, accounts support the toxicity of the Alpine’s seeds. The roots of the Alpine Sweetvetch can easily be mistaken for its poisonous cousin, the Northern Sweetvetch.

red-lipstick:

Sidh-Art (Germany) - Honigdiebe, 2011 Traditional Arts: Drawings: Pencils, Coal, Ink, Coffee on Paper
http://sidh-art.deviantart.com/art/Honigdiebe-271683632

watcher-of-the-skies:

by Michele Maffeo