In a side conversation on a recent post here, my pseudonymous occasional correspondent known as “Froog” recently undertook some research for me. I’d come across this extremely cool wallpaper (well, I think it’s cool; that’s it at the right, and you can click the image to see a larger version); alas, I knew nothing about it except (and this is all merely alleged at this point):
- The scene is in the Vale of Glamorgan, in Wales.
- These are “restaurated” monuments.
- They are about two meters — roughly six feet — in length.
- The person who’d created the wallpaper could remember only that she’d come across the image on a page linked to from somewhere on Wikipedia.
I myself had been able to learn nothing further about the image or about what seem to be these three six-foot swords buried, tip-down, in the earth. Froog, likewise, came up empty-handed, despite a no doubt valiant effort.
(He did make an interesting suggestion, though: check Google Earth. Great idea; anyone who thinks that Google Earth is just for geology or geography nerds clearly has not laid eyes on the product recently. It’s already led me to Cadw, an organization responsible for managing historic monuments and sites — what they call the “historic environment” — in Wales.)
But he also said, almost by the way, that he’d grown up in a town close to the Vale of Glamorgan, a town named Monmouth.
At which point I started to whimper for The Missus to come pick me up off the floor. (Well, not really.) As I said to him in my reply, “I don’t want or need to know anything about your real name; just reassure me that you’re not a seven- to eight-hundred-year-old man named Geoffrey.”
Cryptic, eh?
