James I of Aragon – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Horny goddess

MG Cole writes from a farmstead on Bala Lake: I am disappointed that you, a Welshman, don’t publish more stories of interest to dope-crazed New Age pillocks and consumer goods purchasers like myself. Here then is an authentic photo of Hungarian stag-princess, Violant, on her way from the Lands of the Morning to her wedding…

Catalan hunter-king meets Hungarian stag-princess

A Catalan/Southern Occitan folksong about a Hungarian princess appears to borrow Hungary’s foundational myth.

Swallows & tents

“When it came that we wanted to move the host, a swallow had nested near the apex of the tent.”