Ideas in Fencraft, for self-study or use in a group, or to serve as an index.
Note: if you are coming to a study moot, the reading list and discussion questions are so people can feel confident joining in because one can think in advance about what to talk about and what the subject is, rather than feeling out of their depth. But people are also welcome to just turn up and hang out quietly, or bring their own ideas.
A reading list for those who wish to meditate on the topic in advance
In the depths of the wild-wood roams the weird man. The marginal folkloric figure of the Woodwose embodies the ☉✺ between the worldly and the wild. The distant finale of a ☉✺ narrative in which man is transformed by an encounter with the Stellar - a middle-figure negotiating between us and the weird, asking how we ought to make that negotiation in our own lives - and a powerful inspiration for our own practice.
new fury seized him and he departed secretly, and fled to the woods not wishing to be seen as he fled. He entered the wood and rejoiced to lie hidden under the ash trees; he marvelled at the wild beasts feeding on the grass of the glades; now he chased after them and again he flew past them; he lived on the roots of grasses and on the grass, on the fruit of the trees and on the mulberries of the thicket. He became a silvan man just as though devoted to the woods. For a whole summer after this, hidden like a wild animal, he remained buried in the woods, found by no one and forgetful of himself and of his kindred.Vita Merlini
