- Michael Drout announces that he's finished the Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems for Anglo-Saxon Aloud. Hooray! I'm going to use that as a resource for my Old English class in the fall. By the way, watch this space for an announcement about the OE class.
- Mirror in the Smoke has a post about medieval lesbianism and other transgressive sexual acts.
- Jeff Sypeck sees Njal's Saga in a car wreck.
- Modern Medieval gets in on the "Why I Teach Medieval Lit" action.
- Steve Muhlberger points us to the Anglo-Norman Dictionary Online.
- Steven Till's medieval word of the day: heriot.
- Jennifer Lynn Jordan points us to the Anglo-Saxon Wikipedia. Oh, please, please, PLEASE someone create an entry for me! To have my name in the Anglo-Saxon Wikipedia ... well, with a career highlight such as that, I could just immediately retire.
- The Weird Medieval Animal is the dipsa.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Morning Medieval Miscellany
The rain is really pouring here, so I got to work a bit late. Let's see how many of these I can post before I teach Canterbury Tales.
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I will make one, once I have more than six hours of AS under my belt. Also, you have to proof-read it, so I don't accidentally call you a penguin or something similarly embarrassing.
ReplyDeleteA-S Wikipedia? Who are all these people with so much training and even more free time -- and can I have one to be my unpaid, full-time assistant?
ReplyDeleteJLJ, do this thing, and you may marry my eldest son. You'll have to wait a decade or so until he's of age, but I'm sure you can wait. He's the little jedi on the right in the bottom picture here.
ReplyDeleteSurely good stock like that is worth waiting for, eh? He'll give you babies that are powerful in the Force.
You've got yourself a deal! He will be the dreamiest Jedi ever.
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