Nearest Book Meme
1. Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
2. Turn to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post that sentence along with these instructions in your LiveJournal.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.
"The clearest, earliest adoption by a Norse author of such biblically based demonization of the north is found in the Passio et miracula beati Olavi of Archbishop Eysteinn Erlendsson of Ni∂aróss, second occupant, from 1161 to 1188, of Norway's first metropolitan see."
Yes, my closest book is January's Speculum journal. The article is 'Off-Center: Considering Directional Valences in Norse Cosmography,' by Kevin J. Wanner. No, I have not yet read it.
2. Turn to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post that sentence along with these instructions in your LiveJournal.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.
"The clearest, earliest adoption by a Norse author of such biblically based demonization of the north is found in the Passio et miracula beati Olavi of Archbishop Eysteinn Erlendsson of Ni∂aróss, second occupant, from 1161 to 1188, of Norway's first metropolitan see."
Yes, my closest book is January's Speculum journal. The article is 'Off-Center: Considering Directional Valences in Norse Cosmography,' by Kevin J. Wanner. No, I have not yet read it.