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	<description>Discover the world of medieval Scotland</description>
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		<title>Medieval Hair Dye and Other Research</title>
		<link>http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2011/04/medieval-hair-dye-and-other-research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 03:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was the last day for the Lucky Leprechaun Blog Hop Giveaway, and the winner has just been drawn, and the notice sent out.  Please check your e-mail! The last couple of weeks, have been busy with Night Writers and Gabriel&#8217;s Horn events, including putting together a writing class that will be held this August in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging on Genres at Book Boost</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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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>Medieval Easter</title>
		<link>http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2010/04/medieval-easter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Easter is here!  Is your peacock re-feathered and dressed for Sunday dinner! It is easy to view medieval times as a dreary, colorless life of drudgery and hard work at best, and warfare, torture, and deadly plagues at worst.  A study of the holidays, however, spins the kaleidoscope and breathes color and joy into the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>King Herla</title>
		<link>http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2010/03/king-herla/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legends]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a galaxy long ago and far away&#8230;well, make that this galaxy, in fact, this planet, but the long ago part is pretty accurate.  In fact, it was so long ago, that it was long ago even to the people of long ago.  It was that long ago that King Herla lived. Like all enduring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ale</title>
		<link>http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2010/01/ale/</link>
		<comments>http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2010/01/ale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last week and a bit has flown by with lots of detail work on manuscripts and immersion in the world of medieval music and ale&#8211;more ale than music this week.  And I should add, I don&#8217;t mean literal immersion.  Just in case anyone wondered.  Although it certainly would have helped me answer my question: how does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hogmanay and New Year</title>
		<link>http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2009/12/hogmanay-and-new-year/</link>
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		<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>
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		<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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		<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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		<slash:comments>44</slash:comments>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
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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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