Ken Follett: «Il mio Stonehenge tra storia e immaginazione»

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"Amo le storie in cui le persone comuni compiono qualcosa che sembra impossibile. E Stonehenge è l'esempio più grande di questo". Così Ken Follett racconta l'origine del suo nuovo romanzo Il cerchio dei giorni, edito da Mondadori.    [idarticle id="2638557" title="Rimedi letterari: 8 libri per curare ogni stato d'animo"]    L'autore, affascinato dal mistero del grande monumento neolitico, ha visitato i siti archeologici legati alla sua costruzione insieme a esperti come Heather Sebire, curatrice del sito di Stonehenge presso English Heritage, e Katy Whitaker, ricercatrice per Historic England.    [idarticle id="2300367" title="Rievocazioni storiche e banchetti d'epoca: nasce la Rete delle Città Medievali"]    Dalle cave di West Woods Follett ha esplorato luoghi e tecniche antiche per dare autenticità alla sua narrazione. «Stonehenge è un miracolo di ingegneria e di volontà collettiva», afferma lo scrittore. I    l cerchio dei giorni fonde storia e immaginazione, costruendo un racconto epico sulle radici dell'umanità e sul suo desiderio eterno di lasciare un segno nella pietra.    (NPK) US Mondadori Cristiana moroni

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00:00I love stories in which ordinary people do something that seems impossible.

00:08And Stonehenge is the greatest ever example of just that.

00:15But Stonehenge is a mystery.

00:19Who built it?

00:21How did they build it?

00:24And why did they build it?

00:26Dr. Heather Sabir of English Heritage knows some of the answers.

00:35There's various theories and lots of experimental archaeology has been done.

00:40But it is a real feat of engineering.

00:43And there must have been a lot of people involved.

00:47I wanted to see exactly where these giant stones came from.

00:51So I visited Westwood with Dr. Katie Whittaker of Historic England.

00:58The sarsen stones for Stonehenge, almost all of them were being taken from Westwood.

01:03Even sarsen stone boulders that are only a mile away are not a match.

01:08Any time Stonehenge people needed to cut something, whether a slice of beef or a tree trunk,

01:14they used a flint, a stone that can be sharpened.

01:19The best flint comes from underground, so they dug mines.

01:22And I visited one of those mines at Grimes Graves in Norfolk.

01:27I put on a helmet, a safety harness, and knee pads.

01:34None of which, of course, were available to the Stone Age miners.

01:38I climbed 30 feet down a ladder to the bottom of the pit.

01:48It's dark and dusty.

01:50And a lot of the time, you have to bend or even crawl.

01:57Conditions were not easy for Stone Age miners,

02:01any more than they were for coal miners in the Victorian age.

02:07The stone you see all around is chalk, but the flint is black.

02:14Sharpening a flint is called napping.

02:16It's a difficult and skilled job.

02:19And here you see the archaeologist Phil Harding showing me how it's done.

02:25The principles of flint napping remain as relevant for me

02:29as they were to the people of Stone Age.

02:32My research took me to many fascinating places,

02:36places that you too can visit.

02:39Circle of Days is fiction,

02:41but it's built on a foundation of real historical events.

02:46God of Days is fiction.

02:49Foundation for Dir convenience,

02:50sogemaa is fiction,

02:51and never true,

02:52and then whatever you can explain to.

02:53What's your theory?

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02:58The numbers you have to beיים well.

02:59Finally, we have to dip back on the moon,

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03:03which I do not come to buy from a young man,

03:05to help you retire.

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03:09I am no more.

03:11It's my first lady saying it is misguess

03:12because it is not true,

03:13I'm no higher or not autchman telling

03:15�� gì.

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