Blue-Shirt: W.T.
Vollmann, The Ice-Shirt. New York, 1990.
human
influences: S.
Cassidy, "Environment Changing Climate: 'Compost effect' may
cause global warming to reach crisis point in 2050." The
Independent , 1 September 2006
Bjarne
Herjulfsson,
Lief Eriksson: "In
the saga we read that Bjarne Herjulfsson in the year 986, on his
way to Greenland,
went into fog and lost his direction. They turned south, sailing
for two weeks with land on the port side of the ship before reaching
the latitude of southern Greenland. Years later in Norway, Bjarne
had to suffer a lot of teasing for being a coward because he did
not go ashore in this new land. But in the year 999 Leif Eriksson
was the one to continue." www.ips-lanetarium.org/ planetarian/articles/
viking/viking.html
Erik Blodøks: Eriik
Blodøks
was a Norwegian Viking King of the "Hårfagre" (Fair-Haired)
royal lineage who ruled from 933 to 935. He was chronicled Icelander
Snorri Sturlusson's Heimskringla.
Sir Hugh Willoughy: On
10 May 1553, an expedition of
three ships led by Sir Hugh Willoughby, who had no prior nautical
experience, left London. Caught in a storm, the ships were separated,
and near Murmansk,
Willloughy’s Bona Esparanza was trapped in the ice.The next year,
their
corpses were found by Russian fishermen.
beyond
where the North Wind: "In
Greek mythology the Hyperboreans ( Latin: Hyperborei) were a mythical
people who lived
far to the north
of Thrace. The Greeks thought hat Boreas, the North Wind,[1]
lived in Thrace, and that therefore Hyperborea was an unspecified
region in the northern lands that lay beyond the north wind.
Their land, called Hyperborea or Hyperboria – 'beyond
the Boreas'—was perfect, with the sun shining
twenty-four hours a day." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperborea
grotesque
appetite: The
grotesque body "is a body in the act of becoming.It is never
finished, never completed; it is continuously built, created, and
builds and creates another body. Moveover, the body swallows the
world and is itself swallowed bythe world." M. Bakhtin, Rabelais
and His World. Cambridge, MA.,
1968.