Solitary Winter Sunstead and Yule (December 21) If a follower of the Old Way cannot find others of like mind to share a seasonal ritual in honor of High Valhalla, this rite may be performed by the solitary individual […]

[…] the land of mountain and flood, river, loch and tarn, brae and strath and heathered moor...

This is a panlinguistic phenomenon that applies to Chinese no less than to any other developed writing systems.

Mandalay. In the name there was a euphony which beckoned to the imagination, yet this was the bitter, withered reality.