HomeJane Austen's DragonsInspiring A Writer—The Lambton Worm

Comments

Inspiring A Writer—The Lambton Worm — 5 Comments

  1. And that is how a story starts and explodes. I have loved this series. Well done seems so trite… but it was well done. Thank you for hours of pleasure as I read these stories.

  2. I’m loving all of these pieces about the legends you’re sharing with us, plus the anciliary tales about Elizabeth, April and the Blue Order.

    We actually lived in the City of Durham for a couple of years in the 80s. Hubby worked at the University and I was working farther north near Newcastle upon Tyne, so the tale (and song) of the Lambton Worm became familiar to us. So when I first read Pemberley: Mr. Darcy’s Dragon and came across the Derbyshire Lambton Wyrm for the first time, I had the the song running around in my head for ages afterwards!

    This is a fascinating article about the legend:

    http://myths.e2bn.org/mythsandlegends/origins512-the-lambton-worm.html

    and here’s a link to the much later song:

    http://www.washingtonlass.com/LambtonWormSong

    It’s written in the local dialect with some translation at the side. I’m quite pleased that I can more or less read it all without the translation!

    There are even a couple of pubs in the North East named after said beast.

  3. Pingback:Of course, there were dragons ~ Random Bits of Fascination

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *


This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

HTML tags allowed in your comment: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>