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It's funny the stuff your mind will dredge up.
I was reading a crossover between BtVS - or really, Angel, since it was set just after the final episode - and The Sagas of Noggin the Nog, a gentle old Viking cartoon from the 60s (Don't ask. This crossover is serious "hurts my brain" stuff....oh, all right: Speaker-to-customers' "Noggin and the Vampire" can be found HERE.)
Anyway, all that's by way of giving a little context to the next part.
Reading the fic reminded me of a cartoon I watched as a kid. The show involved a Viking lad, and his father and crewmates and mother and...I couldn't remember much else (except for the fragment of one episode which, for some reason, involved using a swordfish to escape a dungeon). Armed with this impressive array of facts - Viking, children's cartoon - I set out to discover what on earth the show had been called.
I've done such an Internet Search of INSANITY twice before, both times to rediscover a childhood book I couldn't even remember the title of. The first (two children, witch, Australian, forest, wallaby, kingfisher) was "The Rainforest Children" (I think, though since there's no images anywhere it's hard to be sure); the second (children's book, illustrated, pencil drawings, "it happened again") was "The Mysteries of Harris Burdick", written and illustrated by Chris van Allsburg (an absolute treasure of a book, just fourteen weird, beautiful pencil drawings and an intriguing caption for each - this site has scanned them all. Go see).
Each time drove me to distraction as I tried every possible permutation and combination of scant facts to get the right answer, but there was an undoubted hunter-gatherer-type triumph when the answer came.
I hereby present to you the hard-won quarry of the hunt: Vicky the Viking.
Goodnight. :)
I was reading a crossover between BtVS - or really, Angel, since it was set just after the final episode - and The Sagas of Noggin the Nog, a gentle old Viking cartoon from the 60s (Don't ask. This crossover is serious "hurts my brain" stuff....oh, all right: Speaker-to-customers' "Noggin and the Vampire" can be found HERE.)
Anyway, all that's by way of giving a little context to the next part.
Reading the fic reminded me of a cartoon I watched as a kid. The show involved a Viking lad, and his father and crewmates and mother and...I couldn't remember much else (except for the fragment of one episode which, for some reason, involved using a swordfish to escape a dungeon). Armed with this impressive array of facts - Viking, children's cartoon - I set out to discover what on earth the show had been called.
I've done such an Internet Search of INSANITY twice before, both times to rediscover a childhood book I couldn't even remember the title of. The first (two children, witch, Australian, forest, wallaby, kingfisher) was "The Rainforest Children" (I think, though since there's no images anywhere it's hard to be sure); the second (children's book, illustrated, pencil drawings, "it happened again") was "The Mysteries of Harris Burdick", written and illustrated by Chris van Allsburg (an absolute treasure of a book, just fourteen weird, beautiful pencil drawings and an intriguing caption for each - this site has scanned them all. Go see).
Each time drove me to distraction as I tried every possible permutation and combination of scant facts to get the right answer, but there was an undoubted hunter-gatherer-type triumph when the answer came.
I hereby present to you the hard-won quarry of the hunt: Vicky the Viking.
Goodnight. :)
