Yuletide!
And a very happy Yuletide to us all!
I received a wonderful story about 14th century Poland and Lithuania, and a moment when perhaps things might have gone differently. Thank you, Mystery Writer!
Psalms Chapter Eight Verse Two (1502 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 14th Century CE RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Jadwiga of Poland, Jogaila of Lithuania, Konrad von Jungingen, Vytautas of Lithuania, Elizabeth Bonifacia of Poland
Additional Tags: Character of Faith, Roman Catholicism, Requiem, Rites and Rituals, Poetic, Untranslated Latin
Summary:
People forget that places have history, caught and trapped and whispering to be free. People forget that walls see everything, walls remember everything. People forget that ground has been hallowed long before God has known them. Wawel Cathedral has history, has walls, has hallowed ground. Oh, the rejoicing with Wojtyla Pope, and Stanislaus and Wenceslaus Sainted. Have they forgotten that lying beneath the Cathedral, for far too many years, and far too young, is the little girl named after a Pope? These walls remember, and they bear witness to all that came after, when it seemed that faiths could unite in a tragedy and stop further wars …
I received a wonderful story about 14th century Poland and Lithuania, and a moment when perhaps things might have gone differently. Thank you, Mystery Writer!
Psalms Chapter Eight Verse Two (1502 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 14th Century CE RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Jadwiga of Poland, Jogaila of Lithuania, Konrad von Jungingen, Vytautas of Lithuania, Elizabeth Bonifacia of Poland
Additional Tags: Character of Faith, Roman Catholicism, Requiem, Rites and Rituals, Poetic, Untranslated Latin
Summary:
People forget that places have history, caught and trapped and whispering to be free. People forget that walls see everything, walls remember everything. People forget that ground has been hallowed long before God has known them. Wawel Cathedral has history, has walls, has hallowed ground. Oh, the rejoicing with Wojtyla Pope, and Stanislaus and Wenceslaus Sainted. Have they forgotten that lying beneath the Cathedral, for far too many years, and far too young, is the little girl named after a Pope? These walls remember, and they bear witness to all that came after, when it seemed that faiths could unite in a tragedy and stop further wars …