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	<title>The World of the Blue Bells Trilogy &#187; Faith</title>
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	<description>Discover the world of medieval Scotland</description>
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		<title>Midsummer Snow</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 01:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Midsummer&#8217;s Day and the Midsummer blog hop on us, it seems a particularly good day to tell the story of St. Bee&#8217;s. St. Bee&#8217;s is actually a church in northern England, but it was visited by James Douglas and his raiders in the years following Bannockburn, in the course of trying to force Edward [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medieval Easter Carols</title>
		<link>http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2011/04/medieval-easter-carols/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 04:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t forget to scroll to the bottom for information about Easter Bloghop and another chance to win a $10 gift card to amazon.com.  Congratulations to our previous winner, Ericka!  We think of carols in association with Christmas, but in times long gone, carols were also sung at Easter.  A carol, by it simplest definition, is a song [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging on Genres at Book Boost</title>
		<link>http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2010/09/blogging-on-genres-at-book-boost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Legends]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[St. Columba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas the Rhymer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I am guest blogging on crossing genres at The Book Boost.  Please stop by and say hello!  Leave a question or comment for a chance to win a free, signed copy of Blue Bells of Scotland. Literature in Medieval Scotland Medieval literature, the kind Niall and Allene, in Blue Bells of Scotland, would have known, would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St. Columba</title>
		<link>http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2010/07/st-columba/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adaman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brude]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine once said she loved her Catholic faith because &#8216;it has all the cool stuff.&#8217;  She was talking about the many mystical and miraculous events throughout Catholic history and the lives of the Saints.  St. Columba, 521-597, definitely falls into the category of mystical and miraculous.  His life story contains at least a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Researching Today: Melrose Abbey</title>
		<link>http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2010/05/researching-today-melrose-abbey/</link>
		<comments>http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2010/05/researching-today-melrose-abbey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 01:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I research a sequence of hiking scenes today, I find myself in the midst of some of Scotland&#8217;s great and picturesque medieval ruins. Castle Campbell  There&#8217;s Castle Campbell, high in the Ochil Hills between the Burn of Care and the Burn of Sorrow, and once called Castle Gloom. How much more evocative can you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hogmanay and New Year</title>
		<link>http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2009/12/hogmanay-and-new-year/</link>
		<comments>http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2009/12/hogmanay-and-new-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 02:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hogmanay is  the Scottish New Year&#8217;s Eve celebration, although by all accounts, much wilder than how your average American rings in the New Year.  Its roots go back so far that the origin of the word itself is no longer known, but it originated in deep winter celebrations of sun and fire, and moved from there into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Childermass</title>
		<link>http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2009/12/childermass/</link>
		<comments>http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2009/12/childermass/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[December 28 was Childermass Day in the medieval calendar, known today as the Feast of the Holy Innocents.  It is the day Herod slaughtered all the baby boys two and under, in his hunt for the newborn king he believed to be a threat to himself.  One source reports that children were beaten on this day in memory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medieval Christmas Season</title>
		<link>http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2009/12/medieval-christmas-season-part-one/</link>
		<comments>http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2009/12/medieval-christmas-season-part-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 01:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[St. Stephen's Day]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We celebrate Christmas: a rush of gift buying, cooking, baking, and decorating, culminating in one big day.  The medieval Christmas was more of a full season of special days, from Advent to at least January 6, the Epiphany. Christmas Eve was known as Adam and Eve day.  From the early 14th century, &#8220;miracle plays&#8221;&#8211; performances that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deck the Medieval Halls</title>
		<link>http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2009/12/deck-the-medieval-halls/</link>
		<comments>http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2009/12/deck-the-medieval-halls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:26:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, many people are taking down the Christmas tree and cleaning out the vestiges of Christmas.  In medieval times, the twelve days of Christmas&#8211; from the feast of the birth of Christ until the Epiphany, when the wise men arrived with gifts&#8211; is barely beginning on December 26.  How might the halls of the great [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Christmas Then and Now</title>
		<link>http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2009/12/christmas-then-and-now/</link>
		<comments>http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2009/12/christmas-then-and-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas, not surprisingly, has gone through many incarnations in two thousand years, its customs, traditions, and the emphasis put on it changing not only with time, but with place.  For the first thousand and some years, there is no record of the word Christmas at all.  Our first record of the term is from 1038 [...]]]></description>
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