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Monday, November 27, 2023

Saturday Matinee Broadcasts Include Six Special Programs in 2023-2024


Summary: Met Opera's 2023-2024 Saturday matinee radio broadcast schedule intersperses operas with six special programs, including Mozart and Verdi requiems.


Met Opera's maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin poses with Met Opera Musicians on the opera company's dramatic staircase, in front of "The Broken Nine," 9-by-25-foot mosaic panel by American artist Rashid Johnson (born 1977); photos by Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera: The Metropolitan Opera, via Facebook Monday, Aug. 21, 2023

The Metropolitan Opera intersperses the 2023-2024 season's Saturday matinee radio broadcast schedule with six special programs that include Valentine's Day duets as well as Mozart and Verdi requiems.
Met Opera's 2023-2024 season of Saturday matinee radio broadcasts schedules six Saturdays for special programs. February offers two special program dates. Two special program dates happen in March. One special program date occurs in May. The last special program date is scheduled in June.
Met Opera celebrates Valentine's Day, which is observed annually on Feb. 14, with a program entitled "Valentines from the Met: Great Love Duets." The Saturday matinee radio broadcast, which begins Feb. 10 at 1:00 p.m., is described as: "Romantic moments in memorable performances from the Met's radio archives."
Two weeks later, on Feb. 24, a special program of "Mozart and Beethoven in Concert at the Met" airs at 1:00 p.m. The program broadcasts the Feb. 24, 2023, performance of the Requiem by Classical Era composer Wolfgang Mozart (Jan. 27, 1756-Dec. 5, 1791). Met Opera's maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the performance. The French-Canadian conductor (Québécois) had made his Met Opera debut Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009, in the opera company's 946th performance of Carmen by French Romantic Era composer Georges Bizet (Oct. 25, 1838-June 3, 1875).
The soloists for Mozart's Requiem in D Minor are South American soprano Golda Schultz, Canadian-Italian mezzo-soprano Emily D'Angelo, Ukrainian tenor Dmytro Popov and Ukrainian bass-baritone Vladyslav Buialskyi. South American soprano Golda Schultz had made her Met Opera debut Wednesday, Sep. 27, 2017, as Pamina in the opera company’s 433rd performance of Die Zauberflöte by 18th century Classical Era composer Wolfgang Mozart (Jan. 27, 1756-Dec. 5, 1791). Canadian-Italian mezzo-soprano Emily D'Angelo had made her Met Opera debut Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018, as Pantalis in the opera company's 68th performance of Mefistofele by Italian composer and librettist Arrigo Boito (Feb. 24, 1842-June 10, 1918). Ukrainian tenor Dmytro Popov had made his Met Opera debut Wednesday, Sep. 28, 2016, as Rodolfo in the opera company’s 1,291st performance of La Bohème by Italian opera composer Giacomo Puccini (Dec. 22, 1858-Nov. 29, 1924). Ukrainian bass-baritone Vladyslav Buialskyi had made his Met Opera debut Mon., Feb. 28, 2022, as one of six Flemish Deputies in a new production of Don Carlos by 19th-century Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi (Oct. 10, 1813-Jan. 27, 1901) debuting in the opera company's 218th performance of the Verdian opera.
The second part of the Feb. 24 special program airs the finale of Symphony No. 9 by German composer and pianist Ludwig van Beethoven (bapt. Dec. 17, 1770-March 26, 1827). The Saturday matinee presents the performance of Beethoven's D-minor choral symphony from Monday, March 14, 2022. Elza van den Heever, American mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton, Polish operatic tenor Piotr Beczala and American bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green appear as the symphony's soloists.
South African soprano Elza van den Heever had made her Met Opera debut Monday, Dec. 31, 2012, as Elisabetta in the opera company’s premiere of Maria Stuarda by 19th-century Italian bel canto opera composer Gaetano Donizetti (Nov. 29, 1797-April 8, 1848). American mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton had made her Met Opera debut Wednesday, Sep. 23, 2009, as the second of three ladies in the opera company’s 393rd performance of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. Polish tenor Piotr Beczala had made his Met Opera debut Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2006, as the Duke of Mantua in the opera company’s 814th performance of Verdi's Rigoletto. American bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green had made his Met Opera debut Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012, as a Mandarin in the opera company’s 287th performance of Puccini's Turandot.
One week later, the Saturday matinee radio broadcast for March 2 derives from "Listeners' Choice: Great Met Broadcasts." La Favorita by Italian composer Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (Nov. 29, 1797-April 8, 1848) was voted as the Listeners' Choice in the 2022-2023 season. The special program aired the Saturday, March 11, 1978, performance of La Favorita, with Jesús López-Cobos (Feb. 25, 1940-March 2, 2018) on the podium. The Spanish conductor had made his Met Opera debut Saturday, Feb. 4, 1978, in the opera company's 33rd performance of Adriana Lecouvreur by Italian composer Francesco Cilea (July 23, 1866-Nov. 20, 1950).
Shirley Verrett (May 31, 1931-Nov. 5, 2010) sang the title role of Leonora, favorite mistress of Alfonso XI (Aug. 13, 1311-March 26, 1350), King of Castile and León. The American mezzo-soprano had made her Met Opera debut Saturday, Sep. 21, 1968, in the title role of Carmen in the opera company's 641st performance of Bizet's Carmen.
Luciano Pavarotti (Oct. 12, 1935-Sep. 6, 2007) appeared as Fernando, whose reciprocated love for Leonora impels his departure from and return to monastic orders. The Italian operatic tenor had made his Met Opera debut Saturday, Nov. 23, 1968, as Rodolfo in the opera company's 680th performance of Puccini's La Bohème.
Sherrill Milnes (born Jan. 10, 1935) sang King Alfonso, who dismantles the love triangle by an order of the lovers' immediate marriage that sends Fernando back to the monastery and that leads to dispirited, exhausted Leonora's death. The American dramatic baritone had made his Met Opera debut Wednesday, Dec. 22, 1965, as Valentin in the opera company’s 594th performance of Faust by 19th century French composer Charles-François Gounod (June 17, 1818-Oct. 18, 1893).
March's second special program takes place on March 30. The Saturday matinee airs the second event of Met Opera's 2023-2024 season, Messa da Requiem by Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi (Oct. 10, 1813-Jan. 27, 1901). Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducted the Verdi Requiem on Wednesday, Sep. 27, at 7:00 p.m. Leah Hawkins, Karen Cargill, Matthew Polenzani and Dmitry Belosselskiy appeared as the four soloists in Verdi's musical setting of the Catholic funeral mass.
American soprano Leah Hawkins had made her Met Opera debut Friday, Nov. 23, 2018, as an Alms Collector in the opera company's 75th performance of Puccini's Suor Angelica. Scottish operatic mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill had made her Met Opera debut Tuesday, April 24, 2012, as Waltraute in the opera company’s 231st performance of Götterdämmerung by German Romantic era composer-librettist Richard Wagner (May 22, 1813-Feb. 13, 1883). American lyric tenor Matthew Polenzani had made his Met Opera debut Friday, Dec. 19, 1997, as Khrushchov in the opera company’s 251st performance of Boris Godunov by Russian composer Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (March 21, 1839-March 28, 1881). The Ukrainian bass Dmitry Belosselskiy made his Metropolitan Opera debut Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011, as Zaccaria in the opera company’s 54th performance of Verdi's Nabucco.
The last two of the 2023-2024 season's Saturday matinee special programs are listed as "Program TBA."

Saturday, Sep 11, 2021, performance of Giuseppe Verdi's Messa da Requiem, "the Verdi Requiem," conducted by Met Opera's maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin and includng American lyric tenor Matthew Polenzani as soloistt; photo by Richard Termine / Met Opera: The Metropolitan Opera, via Facebook Sep. 13, 2021

Acknowledgment
My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Dedication
This post is dedicated to the memory of our beloved blue-eyed brother, Charles, who guided the creation of the Met Opera and Astronomy posts on Earth and Space News. We memorialized our brother in "Our Beloved Blue-Eyed Brother, Charles, With Whom We Are Well Pleased," published on Earth and Space News on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, an anniversary of our beloved father's death.

Image credits:
Met Opera's maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin poses with Met Opera Musicians on the opera company's dramatic staircase, in front of "The Broken Nine," 9-by-25-foot mosaic panel by American artist Rashid Johnson (born 1977); photos by Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera: The Metropolitan Opera, via Facebook Monday, Aug. 21, 2023, @ https://www.facebook.com/MetOpera/posts/pfbid02vjdSS6AXxc3QNdUPQ9nVTsQMY76er5yhtjEbVoAhiwYWUGgPytEFVrEYVBPbJiWml
Saturday, Sep 11, 2021, performance of Giuseppe Verdi's Messa da Requiem, "the Verdi Requiem," conducted by Met Opera's maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin and includng American lyric tenor Matthew Polenzani as soloist; photo by Richard Termine / Met Opera: The Metropolitan Opera, via Facebook Sep. 13, 2021, @ https://www.facebook.com/MetOpera/posts/pfbid02nrKuYqAJMbn1m9p3CDbqF6f4bjZcZQ8xUCvY8bsRN8vfDziVSNJfcMVXYv4vYShl

For further information:
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Available @ http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=BibSpeed/fullcit.w?xCID=354136
“Debut: Dmytro Popov.” MetOpera Database > [Met Performance] CID: 356480 La Bohème {1291} Metropolitan Opera House: 09/28/2016.
Available @ http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=BibSpeed/fullcit.w?xCID=356480
“Debut: Elza van den Heever.” MetOpera Database > [Met Performance] CID: 354759 Metropolitan Opera Premiere Maria Stuarda {1} Metropolitan Opera House: 12/31/2012.
Available @ http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=BibSpeed/fullcit.w?xCID=354759
"Debut: Emily D'Angelo, Julian Fertel, N. Casey Schopflocher." MetOpera Database > [Met Performance] CID: 357090 Die Zauberflöte {443} Metropolitan Opera House: 12/19/2018.
Available @ http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=BibSpeed/fullcit.w?xCID=357090
"Debut : Vladyslav Buialskyi, Samson Setu." MetOpera Database > [Met Performance] CID: 357580 New Production Don Carlos {218} Metropolitan Opera House Mon, February 28, 2022 Broadcast. Debut: Vladyslav Buialskyi, Samson Setu. In French. Don Carlos (218) Giuseppe Verdi.
Available @ https://archives.metopera.org/MetOperaSearch/record.jsp?dockey=0386937
“Debuts: Bernard Labadie, Matthias Klink, Jamie Barton, Georg Zeppenfeld.” MetOpera Database > [Met Performance] CID: 353076 Die Zauberflöte {393} Metropolitan Opera House: 09/23/2009.
Available @ http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=BibSpeed/fullcit.w?xCID=353076
"Debuts: Brian Michael Moore, YI Li, Jessica Faselt, Sharon Azrieli, Leah Hawkins, Kristina Mkhitaryan." MetOpera Database > [Met Performance] CID: 357063 Il Trittico {75} Il Tabarro {81} Suor Angelica {75} Gianni Schicchi {139} Metropolitan Opera House: 11/23/2018.
Available @ http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=BibSpeed/fullcit.w?xCID=357063
“Debuts: Constantin Pluzhnikov, Olga Borodina, Iosef Shalamayev, Nikolai Gassiev, Daniel Sumegi, Matthew Polenzani.” MetOpera Database > [Met Performance] CID: 330264 Boris Godunov {251} Metropolitan Opera House: 12/19/1997.
Available @ http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=BibSpeed/fullcit.w?xCID=330264
“Debuts: Golda Schultz, Lucas Mann.” MetOpera Database > [Met Performance] CID: 356741 Die Zauberflöte {433} Metropolitan Opera House: 09/27/2017.
Available @ http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=BibSpeed/fullcit.w?xCID=356741
"Debuts: Karen Cargill." MetOpera Database > [Met Performance] CID: 354490 Götterdämmerung {231} Ring Cycle [109] Uncut. Metropolitan Opera House: 04/24/2012.br /> Available @ http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=BibSpeed/fullcit.w?xCID=354490
“Debuts: Piotr Beczala, Kate Aldrich.” MetOpera Database > [Met Performance] CID: 351731 Rigoletto {814} Metropolitan Opera House: 12/19/2006.
Available @ http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=BibSpeed/fullcit.w?xCID=351731
“Debuts: Ryan Speedo Green, Oriada Islami Prifti.” MetOpera Database > [Met Performance] CID: 354549 Turandot {287} Metropolitan Opera House: 09/26/2012.
Available @ http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=BibSpeed/fullcit.w?xCID=354549
Marriner, Derdriu. "La Favorita March 11, 1978, Airing Is March 4, 2023, Saturday Airing." Earth and Space News. Monday, Feb. 27, 2023.
Availabe @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/02/la-favorita-march-11-1978-airing-is.html
Marriner, Derdriu. "Met Opera Calendars 2023-2024 Season Operas Sep. 26 Through June 8." Earth and Space News. Monday, Sep. 18, 2023.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/09/met-opera-calendars-2023-2024-season.html
Marriner, Derdriu. "Met Opera Newly Stages Carmen and La Forza del Destino in 2023-2024." Earth and Space News. Monday, Sep. 11, 2023.
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Marriner, Derdriu. "The Metropolitan Opera Performs 18 Operas in the 2023-2024 Season." Earth and Space News. Monday, Aug. 21, 2023.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-metropolitan-opera-performs-18.html
Marriner, Derdriu. "Metropolitan Opera Revives 12 Productions in 2023-2024 Season." Earth and Space News. Monday, Aug. 28, 2023.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/08/metropolitan-opera-revives-12.html
The Metropolitan Opera. "Saturday night’s performance of Verdi’s Requiem brought the audience to its feet, rounding out a night we’ll never forget. From the superb artistry to the sublime beauty of Verdi’s score, our first evening back in the opera house in 18 months was an emotional experience for everyone—the company, the artists, and the thousands of people watching and listening—both in the auditorium and at home. If you missed it, the full concert is available on demand at pbs.org/gperf and on the PBS Video app. Photo by Richard Termine / Met Opera." Facebook. Sep. 13, 2021.
Available via Facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/MetOpera/posts/pfbid02nrKuYqAJMbn1m9p3CDbqF6f4bjZcZQ8xUCvY8bsRN8vfDziVSNJfcMVXYv4vYShl


Friday, November 24, 2023

La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse Arises From Pelléas et Mélisande


Summary: La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse arises from the Achille-Claude Debussy opera Pelléas et Mélisande from the alike-named Maurice Maeterlinck play.

"God talks to human beings through many vectors: through each other, through organized religion, through the great books of those religions, through wise people, through art and music and literature and poetry, but nowhere with such detail and grace and color and joy as through creation. When we destroy a species, when we destroy a special place, we're diminishing our capacity to sense the divine, understand who God is and what our own potential is." Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., April 19, 2023, Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts.

“And there’s many people out there who want us to move to the next planet already and I’m like, hang on, let’s not give up on this planet yet," William, Prince of Wales, July 31, 2023, Sorted Food food truck, London, England, United Kingdom.


Golaud (from Old Testament gilead, “heap of witnesses” via Franch Galaad, Galahad) abandons his young bride and his young brother to one another's daily company. He abhors their like-aged activities. Pelléas (Frenchified Greek πηλός, “clay” via Πηλεύς) and Mélisande (from French Mélisande, “Millicent” [Anglicized Germanic amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba) absorbed with one another in such ambiances abounding in isolated, natural beauty as a magical fountain and a shoreline cave network accelerates Golaud's adulterous suspicions; gouache paint on paper scenography sketch of cliffs by Swedish artist Carl Grabow (1847-1922) for the March 17, 1905, premiere of Pelleas och Melisande at Svenska Teatern (Swedish Theatre) in Helsinki, Uusimaa region, southern Finland: Statens musikverk (Swedish Performing Arts Agency). Photographer: Narciso Contreras, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons

La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse arises as short-story sequel of 2009 from the Achille-Claude Debussy opera Pelléas et Mélisande from the alike-named Maurice Maeterlinck play that perhaps archives European legends.
La Fille de Mélisande, by Kate Mosse for the Jeanette Winterson-edited, 2009-released Midsummer Nights, banishes anything bewildering the 1902-staged opera, the 1893-staged play Pelléas et Mélisande. The Achille-Claude Debussy (Aug. 22, 1862-March 25, 1918) opera from the Maurice Maeterlinck (Aug. 29, 1862-May 6, 1949) play commences 18-plus years before the Mosse sequel. Allemonde (from German allaz, “all”; German mann-, “men”? or French monde, “world”? via Latin Alemannī) King Arkel, Queen Geneviève and Prince Pelléas discuss dauphin Prince Golaud.
Arkel (from Old Norse arn, “eagle”; ketill, “cauldron”) and Geneviève (from German kunga, “lineage”; wiba, “wife”?; Gaullish genos, “family”? via Frenchified Genovefa?) expect a royal engagement.

The royal couple favor finishing futile feuds by fiancéing their dauphin (from French dauphin, “successor”; Latin delphīnus; Greek δελφίν, δελφίς, “dolphin” from δελφύς, “womb”) to Ursule.
Golaud (from Old Testament gilead, “heap of witnesses” via Franch Galaad, Galahad) gathers, not Ursule (from Latin ursa -ula, “she-bearlet”) from neighboring royal grounds, but Mélisande. Mélisande (from French Mélisande, “Millicent” [Anglicized Germanic amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba) has perhaps royal histories even as she heaves her crown into forest waters. Father-in-law Arkel and mother-in-law Geneviève invite, as their elder son Prince Golaud’s recentest wife and as their only grandchild Yniold’s stepmother, Princess Mélisande into Allemonde Castle.
La Fille de Mélisande (from French la, “the”; fille, “daughter”; de, “of”; Mélisande, “Millicent”) by Kate Mosse joins to that six-member royal family a royal grandchild.

Yniold (from German irmin, “great”; hilt, “battle” via Irminhild via Italian Imeldo) keepsakes his mother, perhaps killed, in his heart even as he knows stepmotherly kindness.
Golaud lets Yniold loose to lag after lithe Pelléas and lovely Mélisande to learn if two such like-aged lives lead to liking and loving one another. It maddens him that Mélisande minds her marriage ring so minimally that it merges with cave-moistened materials that he makes her meander with Pelléas and Yniold. Yniold notes Mélisande and Pelléas nuzzling, the former numbed from nudging her ring off for ring-tossing, ring-catching games that nestle it down among deep-water well niches.
La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse never offers Miette the maternal ring that occasioned obnoxious outcomes from obstreperous, old, opinionated Golaud in Pelléas et Mélisande.

Golaud, as Allemonde premier power-holder, prevents Pelléas peregrinating to whatever place that Marcellus (from Latin Mārs –cellus, “battle little[-spaced]”) picked for perishing protected by preferred people.
Quintessentially quarrelsome, Pelléas quests what qualifies as his truth even as Mélisande and Pelléas quest the quaint quietude of such quarters as Allemonde towers and wells. He resents Pelléas (Frenchified Greek πηλός, “clay” via Πηλεύς) rounding Mélisande’s Rapunzel-like, tower-high long hair to willow trees even as Mélisande and Pelléas reprise another kiss. Nothing stops Golaud from sabotaging whatever Pelléas seeks or from shoving a pregnant Mélisande around their room until she succumbs even as their first child survives.
Pelléas et Mélisande and, by Kate Mosse, La Fille de Mélisande transmit no “more woe than this” Shakespeare:Romeo and Juliet:5:3:308-309) of mother, daughter and their Golaud.

A magical fountain accommodates Kate Mosse arightening with her short story La Fille de Mélisande (from French la, “the”; fille, “daughter”; de, “of”; Mélisande, “Millicent”) what Pelléas et Mélisande (Frenchified Greek πηλός, “clay” via Πηλεύς; French et, "the"; French Mélisande, “Millicent”), as Achille-Claude Debussy (Aug. 22, 1862-March 25, 1918) opera from the Maurice Maeterlinck (Aug. 29, 1862-May 6, 1949) play, never asserts. What awaits a motherless daughter alone amid those whom an awful father awes?; gouache paint on paper scenography sketch by Swedish artist Carl Grabow (1847-1922) for the March 17, 1905, premiere of Pelleas och Melisande at Svenska Teatern (Swedish Theatre) in Helsinki, Uusimaa region, southern Finland: Statens musikverk (Swedish Performing Arts Agency). Photographer: Narciso Contreras, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons

Acknowledgment
My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Dedication
This post is dedicated to the memory of our beloved blue-eyed brother, Charles, who guided the creation of the Met Opera and Astronomy posts on Earth and Space News. We memorialized our brother in "Our Beloved Blue-Eyed Brother, Charles, With Whom We Are Well Pleased," published on Earth and Space News on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, an anniversary of our beloved father's death.

Image credits:
Golaud (from Old Testament gilead, “heap of witnesses” via Franch Galaad, Galahad) abandons his young bride and his young brother to one another's daily company. He abhors their like-aged activities. Pelléas (Frenchified Greek πηλός, “clay” via Πηλεύς) and Mélisande (from French Mélisande, “Millicent” [Anglicized Germanic amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba) absorbed with one another in such ambiances abounding in isolated, natural beauty as a magical fountain and a shoreline cave network accelerates Golaud's adulterous suspicions; gouache paint on paper scenography sketch of cliffs by Swedish artist Carl Grabow (1847-1922) for the March 17, 1905, premiere of Pelleas och Melisande at Svenska Teatern (Swedish Theatre) in Helsinki, Uusimaa region, southern Finland: Statens musikverk (Swedish Performing Arts Agency). Photographer: Narciso Contreras, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dekorationsskiss_av_Carl_Grabow_-_SMV_-_DTM_1939-4129.tif
A magical fountain accommodates Kate Mosse arightening with her short story La Fille de Mélisande (from French la, “the”; fille, “daughter”; de, “of”; Mélisande, “Millicent”) what Pelléas et Mélisande (Frenchified Greek πηλός, “clay” via Πηλεύς; French et, "the"; French Mélisande, “Millicent”), as Achille-Claude Debussy (Aug. 22, 1862-March 25, 1918) opera from the Maurice Maeterlinck (Aug. 29, 1862-May 6, 1949) play, never asserts. What awaits a motherless daughter alone amid those whom an awful father awes?; gouache paint on paper scenography sketch by Swedish artist Carl Grabow (1847-1922) for the March 17, 1905, premiere of Pelleas och Melisande at Svenska Teatern (Swedish Theatre) in Helsinki, Uusimaa region, southern Finland: Statens musikverk (Swedish Performing Arts Agency). Photographer: Narciso Contreras, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dekorationsskiss_av_Carl_Grabow_-_SMV_-_DTM_1939-4127.tif

For further information:
Marriner, Derdriu. 17 November 2023. "La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse Acts as French Phrase Book." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/11/la-fille-de-melisande-by-kate-mosse_17.html
Marriner, Derdriu. 10 November 2023. "La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse Admits Gold, Green, Red and White." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/11/la-fille-de-melisande-by-kate-mosse_10.html
Marriner, Derdriu. 3 November 2023. "La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse Airs Field, Forest, Marine Animals." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/11/la-fille-de-melisande-by-kate-mosse.html
Marriner, Derdriu. 27 October 2023. "Field and Forest Plants Abound in La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/10/field-and-forest-plants-abound-in-la.html
Marriner, Derdriu. 20 October 2023. "Kate Mosse Anchors in Allemonde her La Fille de Mélisande short story." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/10/kate-mosse-anchors-in-allemonde-her-la.html
Marriner, Derdriu. 13 October 2023. "La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse Adds a Pelléas et Mélisande Sequel." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/10/la-fille-de-melisande-by-kate-mosse.html
Mosse, Kate. 1 January 2009. "La Fille de Mélisande." Pages 247-254. In: Jeanette Winterson (Ed.). Midsummer Nights. London UK: Quercus Publishing.
Shakespeare, William. The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet. The Project Gutenberg eBook of Romeo and Juliet. Release date Nov. 1, 1998 [eBook #1513]. Most recently updated June 27, 2023.
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Sotheby’s International Realty. “Historic elegance at the Palais Maeterlinck on Cap de Nice.” Côte d'Azur > Sotheby’s > Luxury real estate.
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Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Naturalist John Hill Named Manis the Pangolin Constellation in 1754


Summary: English Naturalist John Hill named Manis the Pangolin constellation in his 1754 astronomical dictionary, Urania, or, A Compleat View of the Heavens.


John Hill's Manis the Pangolin constellation (lower left) inhabits the northern hemisphere's fourth quadrant (NQ4) and shares the quadrant with one other Hill-invented constellations, Gryphites the Shellfish (upper right): Ultima Thulean, CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons

Eighteenth-century English apothecary, naturalist and writer John Hill introduced Manis the Pangolin constellation in his astronomical dictionary, Urania, or, A Compleat View of the Heavens, published in 1754.
"A conſtellation offered to the aſtronomical world," stated Hill (1714-Nov. 21, 1775) at the beginning of his dictionary entry on Manis as a repetition of the standard introductory phrase for each of his 14 additional invented constellations. He then completed the sentence with a brief description of the new constellation's celestial location: ". . . and compoſed of a ſeries of very conſpicuous unformed ſtars near the conſtellation Cepheus."
The particular stars patterned as one of the species in the Manis genus of pangolin, a mammal also known inaccurately as a scaly anteater or a scaly lizard, for Hill. "The creature, under the out-lines of whoſe figure theſe are arranged in this new-made conſtellation, is one of the moſt ſingular in the world. It is preſerved in ſome of the moſt curious muſeums, and has been mentioned by ſome of the later writers under the name of the ſcaly lizard, but it is not at all of the lizard kind, although it, in ſome degree, reſemble them in figure. The antients were unacquainted with it, and but few writers, who have ſpoken of it, have done this with any degree of accuracy."
Manis the Pangolin neighbors with Cassiopeia the Seated Queen, Cepheus the King, Cygnus the Swan and Lacerta the Lizard. "It is placed between Caſſiopeia, Cepheus, the Swan, and the Lizard. There is a great extent of the heavens left vacant between theſe, and all the conſiderable ſtars in that ſpace are comprehended in this conſtellation."
Cassiopeia's upper body lies near Manis. The Pangolin's head and extended tongue point toward the Seated Queen's right arm and palm branch-holding left arm, respectively. The figure's body is located between Lacerta the Lizard and the scepter held in Cepheus the King's left hand. The Pangolin's tail trails between the heads of Cepheus and the Lizard and nears Cygnus the Swan's tail.
The great expanse of the area in which Hill situated his new, extensive constellation allowed him to portray the unusually "usual" prone position assumed by Earth's pangolins. "The creature is repreſented in this conſtellation in its uſual poſition of ſquatting down upon the ground with its legs ſpread out, its tail a little bent, and its long tongue extended. It is in this manner that in the woods it watches for its prey; it is of the colour of withered leaves, and its ſcales ſomewhat of their ſhape, ſo that it is unobſerved, and its tongue is thruſt out that flies and ants may fix upon it, and it feeds on theſe by drawing it in again."
Manis the Pangolin's extensive spread encompasses a large number of stars, according to Hill's design. "The conſtellation is of conſiderable extent in the heavens, and comprehends a great many ſtars; ſome of theſe are very conſiderable, and were very ill counted before under the name of this, or that conſtellation."

John Hill's Manis the Pangolin constellation emerges from unformed stars in the space framed by Cassiopeia the Seated Queen, Cepheus the King, Cygnus the Swan and Lacerta the Lizard; John Hill, Urania, or, A Compleat View of the Heavens, vol. I (M.DCC.LIV [1754]), between first and second of three pages on "Celestial Circles": Public Domain, via Google Books Read for Free

Hill counted 21 "conſpicuous ſtars" in Manis the Pangolin constellation. Some of the "conſpicuous ſtars . . . are of very conſiderable magnitudes; they follow one another in a crooked ſeries, and are very happily comprehended within and upon the out-lines of this figure."
The head contains three stars. All are noticeable, with "a conſiderable one at the tip of the noſe, and another much larger at the eye; and there is a third alſo, a conſpicuous and beautiful ſtar, at the extremity of the tongue."
The fore feet each contain a star while five stars sequence along the length of the figure's back. Two large stars conspicuously mark each hind leg, with the left hind leg's star occurring "very near the head of the Lizard."
Nine stars define the tail. "At the beginning of the tail there is a ſmall ſtar on the left ſide, and a little lower, on the ſame ſide, there is another at a conſiderable diſtance." Below the left side's second tail star, two stars oppositely mark both sides, with their placement near Cepheus the King's right hand. Next "a ſingle and very conſpicuous ſtar . . . on the right ſide of the tail toward the end . . . is very near the little ſtar at the extremity of the tail of Cygnus." The remaining four of the Pangolin's 21 "conſpicuous ſtars" shape the end of the figure's tail, with the middle shaped by ". . . one . . . and beyond this . . . two near together." The last of the four tail stars anchors the tip as ". . . not an inconſiderable one, though "ſmaller than many of the others."
Six of Manis the Pangolin's stars are identified by David Harper, once an astronomer specializing in celestial mechanics and positional astronomy but now a genome researcher, and his wife, astronomer L. (Lynne) M. Stockman, in "Manis -- The Pangolin," posted on their Obliquity website. Andromeda the Chained Maiden contributes one star, Lambda Andromedae (λ Andromedae; abbreviated Lambda And, λ And). Three stars reside in Cygnus the Swan: Pi1 Cygni (π1 Cygni; abbreviated Pi1 Cyg, π1 Cyg), Pi2 Cyg (π2 Cyg), Rho Cyg (ρ Cyg). Lacerta the Lizard provides two stars: Alpha Lacertae (α Lacertae; abbreviated Alpha Lac, α Lac), Beta Lac (β Lac).
Manis resides in the northern hemisphere's fourth quadrant (NQ4). The celestial Pangolin shares the quadrant with another Hill-invented constellation, Gryphites the Shellfish.
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has not recognized Manis the Pangolin as an official constellation. Its unofficial status places Manis the Pangolin in the category of an obsolete constellation, which also may be referenced synonymously as defunct, extinct, forgotten or former. Despite its unofficial status, Manis the Pangolin remains visible to those stargazers who examine the space between the IAU-recognized constellations of Cassiopeia the Seated Queen, Cepheus the King, Cygnus the Swan and Lacerta the Lizard.
Hill concluded his dictionary entry on Manis with an explanation of his purpose in devising new constellations. "This and twelve others are the conſtellations, added to thoſe already formed, in this work. There appeared a deficiency of ſome figure in thoſe places where they are ſituated, and theſe figures very happily fill them."
Hill expressed a balanced view on the reception of his newly devised constellations. "If they are accepted by thoſe who profeſs aſtronomy, I shall be glad to have added ſomething, be it ever ſo little, to the ſcience; if they are neglected, there is only a little trouble loſt."

John Hill equated his Limax the Slug constellation with Earth's black naked snail, described as a frequenter of "gardens and damp places"; depictions of Amber Snail (top row), Black Naked Snail (second row left) and Red Naked Snail (second row right) as examples of three snail species, in John Hill, An History of Animals (1752), Plate 5, opposite page 91: Biodiversity Heritage Library (BioDivLibrary), Public Domain, via Flickr

Acknowledgment
My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Dedication
This post is dedicated to the memory of our beloved blue-eyed brother, Charles, who guided the creation of the Met Opera and Astronomy posts on Earth and Space News. We memorialized our brother in "Our Beloved Blue-Eyed Brother, Charles, With Whom We Are Well Pleased," published on Earth and Space News on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, an anniversary of our beloved father's death.

Image credits:
John Hill's Manis the Pangolin constellation (lower left) inhabits the northern hemisphere's fourth quadrant (NQ4) and shares the quadrant with one other Hill-invented constellations, Gryphites the Shellfish (upper right): Ultima Thulean, CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Southern_Hemisphere_Hill's_Constellations.png
John Hill's Manis the Pangolin constellation emerges from unformed stars in the space framed by Cassiopeia the Seated Queen, Cepheus the King, Cygnus the Swan and Lacerta the Lizard; John Hill, Urania, or, A Compleat View of the Heavens, vol. I (M.DCC.LIV [1754]), between first and second of three pages on "Celestial Circles": Public Domain, via Google Books Read for Free @ https://www.google.com/books/edition/Urania_or_a_compleat_view_of_the_Heavens/n_ReAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1; Ultima Thulean, CC BY SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Manis_Constellation.jpg
John Hill equated his Manis the Pangolin constellation with Earth's black naked snail, described as a frequenter of "gardens and damp places"; depiction of Manis the Pangolin, also known as the Scaly Lizard (top), in John Hill, An History of Animals (1752), Plate 26, opposite page 543: Biodiversity Heritage Library (BioDivLibrary), Public Domain, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/50374598963/; Public Domain, via Biodiversity Heritage Library @ https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/56071787

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Tuesday, November 21, 2023

President Vigdis Finnbogadottir Appears in Reykjavík: A Crime Story


Summary: President Vigdis Finnbogadottir appears in Reykjavík: A Crime Story anglicized by Victoria Cribb and authored by Ragnar Jónasson and Katrín Jakobsdóttir.

"God talks to human beings through many vectors: through each other, through organized religion, through the great books of those religions, through wise people, through art and music and literature and poetry, but nowhere with such detail and grace and color and joy as through creation. When we destroy a species, when we destroy a special place, we're diminishing our capacity to sense the divine, understand who God is and what our own potential is." Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., April 19, 2023, Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts.

“And there’s many people out there who want us to move to the next planet already and I’m like, hang on, let’s not give up on this planet yet," William, Prince of Wales, July 31, 2023, Sorted Food food truck, London, England, United Kingdom.


The very fictitious Högni Eyfjörd (from Old Norse hagi, “pasture” or hagr, “skilled”; Old Norse ey, “island”; and fjǫrðr, “deep, inter-cliff, long, narrow inlet") and the very real Vigdis Finnbogadottir (from Old Norse vig dís finnr bogi dóttir, “war [minor-]goddess Finn/Lapp bow daughter”), as daughter of a University of Iceland Engineering Professor and of an Icelandic Nursing Association 36-year chair (1924-1960) and nurse, abided on Tjarnargata (from Old Norse tjǫrn gata, “lakelet/pond/pool/tarn road/street"), much admired historic address in central Reykjavik (from Old Norse reykr vík, “smoke bay”); 1934 view of Reykjavik's old city center includes Dómkirkjan í Reykjavík (Reykjavik Cathedral; white spired building center left visible between two villas), built in 1747 and demolished in 1847, in glass negative by Dutch photojournalist Willem van de Poll (April 13, 1895-Dec. 10, 1970), Nationaal Archief (Nummer toegang 2.24.14.02, Bestanddeelnummer 190-0394), The Hague, western coastal Netherlands: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Fourth Iceland President Vigdis Finnbogadottir appears in Reykjavík: A Crime Story anglicized in 2023 by translator Victoria Cribb from the Icelandic standalone novel authored in 2022 by Ragnar Jónasson and Katrín Jakobsdóttir.
The year of the 30th missing-person anniversary, Monday, Aug. 4, 1986, becomes the year of the 200th anniversary of the capital city Monday, Aug. 18, 1986. Reykjavík (from Old Norse reykr vík, “smoke bay”) perhaps most correctly counts the aforementioned date as its 1,112th anniversary from its fishing-village, trading-post construction in 874. Icelandic tradition designates as Reykjavik founder Ingólfr Arnarson (844-849?-903-910?, from Old Norse Yngvi ulfr ari/ǫrn herr, “god wolf eagle army") of Rivedal valley, Sunnfjord, western Norway.
Danish encroachment eschewed 912 years before Friday, Aug. 18, 1786, when Danish money- and power-holders ended up establishing the southwest expanse as municipal-empowered, Danish-exercised, administrative center.

Vigdis Finnbogadottir heading the Nordic Council of Ministers for Culture for 8 years -- all of them as Iceland's first single woman with an adopted child, art historian and artist Ástríður Magnúsdóttir (born Oct. 18, 1972), bride of technologist Eggert Elmar Þórarinsson (born 1973) and therefore co-parent of Aþena Vigdís (born 2000), Eva María (born 2004), Ásta Sigríður (born 2009) and Elmar Þór (born 2014) -- accounts for her first presidential-run success in 1980; June 2, 2008, graphic of members of Nordic Council: S. Solberg J. (Ssolbergj), Svenskbygderna (Pharexia), CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

The anniversary festivities featured free Hlemmur (from Old Norse hlemmr, "trapdoor" via Icelandic hlemmur, "[flat] large lid”) round-trip bus rides and Radio 2 live city-center broadcasting.
Town-center Arnarhóll (from Old Norse ari/ǫrn herr hóll, “eagle army hill/hillock/knoll”) mound gave generous glimpses of anniversary-glorifying official speeches; play, song, symphony-orchestra performances; and firework displays. Vigdis Finnbogadottir, as 4th President (Aug. 1, 1980-Aug. 1, 1996), and David Oddsson, as 10th Reykjavik Mayor (May 27, 1982-July 16, 1991), handled the importantest speeches. Vigdís Finnbogadóttir (from Old Norse vig dís finnr bogi dóttir, “war [minor-]goddess Finn/Lapp bow daughter”) itinerated around the marzipan-, sherry-, unspecified alcohol-instilled, 3.28-foot- (meter-) long cake.
Davíð Oddsson (from Hebrew דּוֹד, "beloved/[paternal-]uncle"; and Old Norse oddr, "spear/[weapon-]point") joined, as Prime Minister in the Icelandic-governing cabinet, Vigdis Finnbogadottir after Reykjavík: A Crime Story.

Iceland outside the capital city acquainted itself with Vigdis Finnbogadottir pre-presidentially as Dr Ragnar Ottó Arinbjarnar's (July 12, 1929-Nov. 23, 1997, from Old Norse regin ótti/ōtti [or from German ōt, "riches"] ari/ǫrn biǫrn, "advise/decision/divine power/might dread/fear/terror eagle bear") spouse (1954-1961). Northern Iceland in the latter's hometown of Blönduós (from Old Norse blanda, “to blend/mix”), Northwestern Region, Northwest Constituency, therefore acquired an admiration for Vigdis Finnbogadottir in the decades before her presidential runs; Sunday, June 24, 2007, panoramic image of Blönduós: TommyBee, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The anniversary-attending fictitious character Sunna Róbertsdóttir (from Old Norse sunna hróðr bjartr dóttir, “fame/glory/honor/praise bright/light/shining sun daughter") knows of President Finnbogadottir as rare “role model” (Reykjavik:159).
Accidental drowning led to the lamented death of Finnbogi Rútur Þorvaldsson’s and Sigríður Eiríksdóttir’s second-born, Vigdis Finnbogadottir’s younger brother, Thorvaldur Finnbogason (Dec. 21, 1931-Aug. 3, 1952). Finnbogi Rútur Þorvaldsson (Jan. 22, 1891-Jan. 6, 1973, from Old Norse finnr bogi hrútr þórr valdr, "Finn/Lapp bow ram thunder might/mighty-one/power/powerful-one/ruler") made central, historic Reykjavik home. Sigríður Eiríksdóttir (June 16, 1894-March 23, 1986, from Old Norse sigr fríðr einn ríkr dóttir, “victory alive/beautiful/beloved/good/peaceful/safe alone/one distinguished/empire/kingdom/mighty/rich daughter"), Thorvaldur and Vigdis nestled there too.
Vigdis Finnbogadottir occupied Tjarnargata, Reykjavík: A Crime Story occupancy of Högni Eyfjörd’s (from Old Norse tjǫrn gata, “lakelet/pond/pool/tarn road/street"; hagi/hagr, “pasture/skilled”; ey, “island”; fjǫrðr, “inter-cliff inlet").

Vigdis passed from Reykjavik Grammar School to France’s University of Grenoble and Sorbonne, Reykjavik’s University of Iceland, Denmark’s University of Copenhagen and Sweden’s University of Uppsala.
Vigdis queued National Theatre of Iceland, Icelandic State Travel Agency, Reykjavik Grammar School, Hamrahlid College, University of Iceland, Icelandic National Broadcasting Service, Reykjavik Theatre Company positions. Respected directing Reykjavik Theatre Company and heading the Nordic Council of Ministers for Culture realized the first of presidential-run successes in 1980, 1984, 1988 and 1992. Her 16-year-long presidential service, as first and longest-serving female state head democratically elected in recorded history, stressed reforestation and topsoil-strengthening strategies and gay and women rights.
Reykjavík: A Crime Story tenders President Vigdis Finnbogadottir as state head whose tenure triggered Reykjavik 200th-anniversary tributes, the Reykjavik Summit and, fictitiously, 30th missing-person anniversary solutions.

Southern Icelanders acquired an admiration for Vigdis Finnbogadottir for her pre-presidential associations with Eystra-Geldingaholt (from Icelandic eystra, "in the east"; Old Norse gelda -ingr holt, "castrated-ram inhabitant hillock/rough stony ridge/wood/woodland") in Gnúpverjahreppur (from Old Norse gnúpr/gnípa, "leaning mountain-peak/slope/stoop"; Old Norse verja, "to defend/thwart"; Icelandic hreppur, "municipality"), Árnessýsla (from Old Norse arn, "eagle"; and Icelandic sýsla, “administrative region/district/employment/work”); Good Friday, March 25, 2005, image of Eystra-Geldingaholt: Jóna Þórunn Ragnarsdóttir, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

Acknowledgment
My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Dedication
This post is dedicated to the memory of our beloved blue-eyed brother, Charles, who guided the creation of the Met Opera and Astronomy posts on Earth and Space News. We memorialized our brother in "Our Beloved Blue-Eyed Brother, Charles, With Whom We Are Well Pleased," published on Earth and Space News on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, an anniversary of our beloved father's death.

Image credits:
The very fictitious Högni Eyfjörd (from Old Norse hagi, “pasture” or hagr, “skilled”; Old Norse ey, “island”; and fjǫrðr, “deep, inter-cliff, long, narrow inlet") and the very real Vigdis Finnbogadottir (from Old Norse vig dís finnr bogi dóttir, “war [minor-]goddess Finn/Lapp bow daughter”), as daughter of a University of Iceland Engineering Professor and of an Icelandic Nursing Association 36-year chair (1924-1960) and nurse, abided on Tjarnargata (from Old Norse tjǫrn gata, “lakelet/pond/pool/tarn road/street"), much admired historic address in central Reykjavik (from Old Norse reykr vík, “smoke bay”); 1934 view of Reykjavik's old city center includes Dómkirkjan í Reykjavík (Reykjavik Cathedral; white spired building center left visible between two villas), built in 1747 and demolished in 1847, in glass negative by Dutch photojournalist Willem van de Poll (April 13, 1895-Dec. 10, 1970), Nationaal Archief (Nummer toegang 2.24.14.02, Bestanddeelnummer 190-0394), The Hague, western coastal Netherlands: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gezicht_over_de_oude_stadskern_met_vila%27s_van_Reykjavik_met_in_het_midden_de_ono,_Bestanddeelnr_190-0394.jpg; via National Archief, CC0, @ https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/onderzoeken/fotocollectie/ae9ddec2-d0b4-102d-bcf8-003048976d84
Vigdis Finnbogadottir heading the Nordic Council of Ministers for Culture for 8 years -- all of them as Iceland's first single woman with an adopted child, art historian and artist Ástríður Magnúsdóttir (born Oct. 18, 1972), bride of technologist Eggert Elmar Þórarinsson (born 1973) and therefore co-parent of Aþena Vigdís (born 2000), Eva María (born 2004), Ásta Sigríður (born 2009) and Elmar Þór (born 2014) -- accounts for her first presidential-run success in 1980; June 2, 2008, graphic of members of Nordic Council: S. Solberg J. (Ssolbergj), Svenskbygderna (Pharexia), CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Location_Nordic_Council.svg
Vigdis Finnbogadottir directing the Reykjavik Theatre Company accounts for her first, second, third and fourth presidential-run successes in 1980, 1984, 1988 and 1992. It accounts for the ultimate arrangement of the old structure into the admired, new Reykjavik City Theatre (from Icelandic Borgarleikhúsið, from Old Norse borg leikr hús, "castle/city/cliff[-filled-]rock-hill contest/game/sport house") from 1989 onward, near the acclaimed Kringlan (from Old Norse kringla, "circle/disc/discus/orb/pretzel") shopping center; Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023, 10:36, image of Borgarleikhúsið í Reykjavík (City Theatre of Reykjavik), designed by architects Arkitektar: Guðmundur Kr. Guðmundsson (May 16, 1937-Nov. 13, 2022), Ólafur Sigurðsson (born 1935) and Þorsteinn Gunnarsson (born Dec. 18, 1940): Eysteinn Guðni Guðnason (Steinninn), CC BY SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mynd:Borgarleikhúsið2023.jpg
Iceland outside the capital city acquainted itself with Vigdis Finnbogadottir pre-presidentially as Dr Ragnar Ottó Arinbjarnar's (July 12, 1929-Nov. 23, 1997, from Old Norse regin ótti/ōtti [or from German ōt, "riches"] ari/ǫrn biǫrn, "advise/decision/divine power/might dread/fear/terror eagle bear") spouse (1954-1961). Northern Iceland in the latter's hometown of Blönduós (from Old Norse blanda, “to blend/mix”), Northwestern Region, Northwest Constituency, therefore acquired an admiration for Vigdis Finnbogadottir in the decades before her presidential runs; Sunday, June 24, 2007, panoramic image of Blönduós: TommyBee, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blonduos4.jpg
Southern Icelanders acquired an admiration for Vigdis Finnbogadottir for her pre-presidential associations with Eystra-Geldingaholt (from Icelandic eystra, "in the east"; Old Norse gelda -ingr holt, "castrated-ram inhabitant hillock/rough stony ridge/wood/woodland") in Gnúpverjahreppur (from Old Norse gnúpr/gnípa, "leaning mountain-peak/slope/stoop"; Old Norse verja, "to defend/thwart"; Icelandic hreppur, "municipality"), Árnessýsla (from Old Norse arn, "eagle"; and Icelandic sýsla, “administrative region/district/employment/work”); Good Friday, March 25, 2005, image of Eystra-Geldingaholt: Jóna Þórunn Ragnarsdóttir, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eystra-Geldingaholt_2005.JPG

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Marriner, Derdriu. 16 May 2023. "Harborside Rooms and Violent Deaths Add Stayover Traffic to Winterkill." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 9 May 2023. "Whiteout, Anglicized From Andkör, Archives Icelandic Names and Words." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 2 May 2023. "Flaming Coffee Sambuca Acts as a Christmas Toast in Whiteout." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 25 April 2023. "Axel Sveinsson Lighthouses Add Jobs and Attract Tourists in Whiteout." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 18 April 2023. "Whiteout Admits Northern Landscapes Akin to Jón Stefánsson Paintings." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 11 April 2023. "Jóhann Jónsson Adds Autumn Flowers to Andköf, Anglicized as Whiteout." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 4 April 2023. "A Baby Arrives Auspiciously in Whiteout, Anglicized From Andkör." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 28 March 2023. "A Northern Lighthouse Inadvertently Admits Adverse Traffic in Whiteout." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 21 March 2023. "Rupture, Anglicized From Rof, Archives Icelandic Names and Words." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 14 March 2023. "Coffees Appear Black or Milky, Poisoned or Sugary in Rupture." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 7 March 2023. "Rupture, Anglicized From Rof, Acknowledges Ásgrímur Jónsson." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 28 February 2023. "Thorleifur Ragnar Jónasson Acquaints Us With Adverse Areas in Rupture." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 21 February 2023. "Past Actions Affect Present Anxieties in Rupture, Anglicized From Rof." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 14 February 2023. "Tunnels Accelerate Justice and Traffic in Rupture, Anglicized From Rof." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 7 February 2023. "Icelandic Names and Words Are in Blackout, Anglicized From Myrknætti." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 31 January 2023. "Biscuits, Burgers, Chips, Dried Fish Appeal to Police in Blackout." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 24 January 2023. "Thorleifur Ragnar Jónasson Accuratizes Volcanic Glaciers in Blackout." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 17 January 2023. "Jón Gudmundsson the Learned Accounts for Poetic Advice in Blackout." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 10 January 2023. "Seven Are Taciturn About Death in Blackout, Anglicized From Myrknætti." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 3 January 2023. "Summerhouses Add to Crime Rates in Blackout, Anglicized From Myrknætti." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 27 December 2022. "Nattblinda, as Nightblind, Appends a Poem by Freysteinn Gunnarsson." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 20 December 2022. "Nattblinda, as Nightblind, Appends Spring Returns to the Valley." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 13 December 2022. "Nattblinda, Anglicized Nightblind, Archives Icelandic Names and Words." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 6 December 2022. "Náttblinda, Anglicized Nightblind, Admits Fresh Buns, Coffee and Pizza." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 29 November 2022. "Thórbergur Thórdarson Assuages Anxiety in Nattblinda, as Nightblind." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 22 November 2022. "Thorsteinn Jónsson Advises All Are Astray in Nattblinda, as Nightblind." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 8 November 2022. "Active Tunnels Adjust to Awful Weather in Nattblinda, as Nightblind." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 1 November 2022. "Snjóblinda, Anglicized Snowblind, Archives Icelandic Names and Words." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 31 May 2022. "Hulda Ate Icelandic Food Christmas Eve in Mistur, Anglicized The Mist." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 24 May 2022. "Mistur, Anglicized The Mist, Acknowledges Halldór Laxness at Christmas." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 17 May 2022. "Mistur, Anglicized as The Mist, Acquaints Us With Olaf Olafsson." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 3 May 2022. "Mistur, Anglicized as The Mist, Angles Ring Road Along Coastal Iceland." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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