Cafe Einstein - LPTPW 17 - animal, vegetable, and/or a minerally type chemically thing, and maybe some other things as well, yes :)

Probably the Isle of Wight, they always did have pretensions to grandeur.

Yeah, okay. Did nobody have a sense of direction then?

Yeah the contact b/w Eire and the 'classic' ancients goes way long back. Plus I think the tin produce of what is now southwestern Britain made it's way East too. The Carthaginians went both well north and far south out of the exit to the Mediterranean. Later Vikings went up the rivers of western muscovy/tartar and then down what we call the modern Dnieper to the Black Sea. For some miles between the top ends of both of those river systems they dragged their boats across land atop log rollers. However they were only following what had been done many centuries before ! I guess that's the origin of many a legend : multi year dangerous journeys to strange places and the re-telling expands down the generations ( assuming they returned to speak of it !). So when Finn MacCool ( I kid you not ) turns into a fish and then gets one eye plucked out by an eagle it is probably metaphorical for some battle of importance, social event, religious event ( one or more ) and the exact meaning dilutes as the oral tradition proceeds. Human nature hasn't changed that much since either. :-)

Cheers, Mike.

Hi all,

My crunchers will all be off line for a few days. No set date but the power company is coming to remove a tree in my back yard and will have to shut off the power to do it. Since I travel I need to have everything shut down in case they show up while I'm gone. Back in a few days.

Phil