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Word: "Maartje Pool died in childbirth, as was so often the case in this region where a Gampish midwife acted as obstetrician."

1. Resembling or characteristic of Sarah Gamp, a dissolute, sloppy and drunken nurse in Charles Dickens' novel Martin Chuzzlewit (1843)
2. An umbrella

Wiki: "A row of pollards stood stiffly by the roadside."

Word: "Ben dropped the matter, stonkered by the simplicity of the arrangement."

1. to hit hard; knock unconscious
2. to defeat decisively
3. to baffle; confuse

11. The Story of Gerd and Frey, 3 stars. Chump sends his pet pig to propose, smooooth.
12. Hymir and Thor's Fishing Expedition, 3 stars. Damn, Thor loves a free meal.
13. The Death of Balder, 3 stars. Loki conspires to kill Odin's favorite son.
14. The Last Days of Loki, 3 stars. Punishing Loki & family in an over the top way.
15. Ragnarok: The Final Destiny of the Gods, 3 stars. Gods die, big 'ol boot lives.

Wiki: "This will be the time of the terrible winter that will not end, the Fimbulwinter."

Fimbulwinter > Extreme weather events of 535–536

06. The Children of Loki, 3 stars. The gods are assholes to 2/3 of Loki's kids.
07. Freya's Unusual Wedding, 4 stars. Thor prepares for a wedding.
08. The Mead of Poets, 4 stars. Stealing creative juices, where my haikus come from.
09. Thor's Journey to the Land of the Giants, 3 stars. Gods are jerks, eat humble pie.
10. The Apples of Immortality, 2 stars. Loki ruins everything, ties junk to a goat for.. reasons.

01. Before the Beginning, and After, 3 stars. Killing stuff to make the world.
02. Yggdrasil and the Nine Worlds, 2 stars. Various folk & where they hail from.
03. Mimir's Head and Odin's Eye, 2 stars. Odin is thirsty, uncle gets head lopped off.
04. The Treasures of the Gods, 3 stars. Loki makes a bet, but weasels out.
05. The Master Builder, 3 stars. All the gods weasel out, Loki makes sweet love to a horse.

Wiki: "The norns will decide what happens in your life."

Wiki: "It is said that at Ragnarok, which is the end of the world, and only then, Surtr will leave his station."

Wiki: "So that’s how John Donne made the 'Hallmark Hall of Fame' and paid for all the books you ever sent me and five teeth."

Wiki: "Did you ever hear of the Mattoon Maniac?"

Wiki: "In the east, I noticed, though it was still black night in the car and the street around us, there was a hint of dawn or false dawn in the sky."

Zodiacal light > Gegenschein

16. The Whisperer in Darkness, 3 stars. Pen pal with tales of flying/speaking/mining alien crabs, an unusually short visit.

14. The Call of Cthulhu, 3 stars. Creepy dreams, creepy art, terrible sailors stumble upon a big stinky jello monster.

Word: "After vigintillions of years great Cthulhu was loose again..."

1. a number represented in the USA by 1 followed by 63 zeros
(1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000), and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 120 zeros (1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000).

Wiki: "We peddled the only authentic brand of Lydia Pinkham’s—”

Art: "Mike would receive, not the original, but a full-size, microscopically-exact replica, a bronze photopantogram of “She Who Used to Be the Beautiful Heaulmière.""

Word: "He remembered birthdays and would rather have welched on a poker debt than have forgotten to write a bread-and-butter note."

1. A short, hand-written communication to thank someone who has recently provided the writer with hospitality, usually dinner or an overnight visit.

Wiki: "In his years as a snooper, first as a reporter, then as a lippmann, he had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top..."

Wiki: "...faded out and gave way to the face of a commentator, the well-known winchell Augustus Greaves."

Wiki: "...a community that took its inspiration more from the mainstream of American life than from the Polish shtetl their Yiddish-speaking parents had re-created around Prince Street in the impoverished Third Ward."

Wiki: "Lytten’s speciality was Sir Philip Sidney, favourite of Queen Elizabeth, courtier, scholar, poet and man of action."

Sir Philip Sidney > Signalling theory

Wiki: "And then I came to a field where the springing grass
Was dulled by the hanging cups of fritillaries,
Sullen and foreign-looking, the snaky flower,
Scarfed in dull purple, like Egyptian girls –"

Wiki: "Then he would mingle with the crowd on the Galata Bridge; or stroll through the bazaars; or throw aside his shoes and join the worshippers in the Mosques."

17. The Shadow Over Innsmouth, 4 stars. Tourist disregards the rantings of an old man, unwelcome visitors turn up during the night.

Wiki: "We shouted back loud enough to wake the Seven Sleepers – I never could understand myself why it should take more noise to waken seven sleepers than one..."

Wiki: "We had a good deal of trouble with steam-launches that morning. It was just before the Henley week, and they were going up in large numbers; some by themselves, some towing house-boats."

Wiki: "...and here the great Earl Godwin was proved guilty by the justice of that age of having encompassed the death of the King’s brother. Earl Godwin broke a piece of bread and held it in his hand.
‘If I am guilty,’ said the Earl, ‘may this bread choke me when I eat it!’
Then he put the bread into his mouth and swallowed it, and it choked him, and he died."

Wiki: "I came to typhoid fever – read the symptoms – discovered that I had typhoid fever, must have had it for months without knowing it – wondered what else I had got; turned up St Vitus’s Dance – found, as I expected, that I had that too..."