More Leprechauns

should have my head down writing Flower Show but I got rather excited last night . I could have watched Wimbledon but by one of those strange connections, I turned to Lost Cities of the Ancient World and there was the background for Han from the Leprechaun novel idea I’ve talked about before. The programme showed an unknown ’empire’ which disappeared at the time of Ramses known as the Hittites – not the Biblical lot apparently – who had a capital called Hattusha. We’d have called them technically advanced, so that would fit in with Han being a metallurgist of sorts, more than that, their hieroglyphs were deciphered because a few ‘words’ looked like water, eat and drink – European words. So now we can put into the story how our languages originated from the Hittites. There was a lot more about libraries as well as a culture of aggression, much like the Vikings, all good stuff.
So, Han comes from Hattusha, chased out because of his secret marriage to the princess, being a kind of Viking, hemakes his way across Europe using his technical know how and lands in Britain where he finds the Leprechaun, gold, bronze and even a bit of iron being made.
I’ve always said that when you search, even subconsciously, things just crop up, the old saying that someone looks after fools and horses applies.
Sullatober