Morning Medieval Miscellany

I'm pulling in the homestretch now on this week (in which every day feels like it runs into extra innings), but I can spare about a half-hour to get a few things into the Miscellany:

• I'm big into including other manuscript cultures in what we call "medieval," and the Cranky Professor has a link to some new Mayan ruins discovered in the Yucatan.
• Another Damned Medievalist tells us, "You might be a Medievalist if..." Dang, I wish I'd written that post.
• Cronaca tells us about Dirty Jobs, Medieval Style.
• Geoffrey Chaucer hath a post about Blazinge Fellow.
• Heavenfield's Lost Kingdom of the Month is the Realm of Rheged. You can read more about Rheged at Senchus.
• Lots of new CfPs can be found at the Heroic Age, one at Owlfish, and one at In the Middle.
• Heroic Dreams has an update and embedded video on the new series based on the Sword of Truth.
• The Medieval Club of New York announces a forum entitled "'Variety': a study in pre-modern aesthetic values" on Sept. 11th.
• The Medieval Garden Enclosed discusses the connection between thistles and Charlemagne. Jeff Sypeck, take note!
• Dr. Virago needs suggestions for helping to accommodate a blind student in her medieval survey class. Maybe the medieval disability studies folks can help?
• You can find round-ups of news stories at News for Medievalists and Medieval Material Culture.
• The Swain has a second installment in his "Medieval Literature I Didn't Know" series (now making it a real series!), this one on the Letter to Sigeweard -- and once again, I didn't know it either.
• This isn't really medieval, but Michael Drout has a post about Haldir, plastic dinosaurs, and ... oh, heck, you're just gonna hafta read it for yourself.
• Julie K. Rose reviews Seekers of the Chalice, discusses fairy rings, and has an interview with Jeff Sypeck. I did a video interview of Sypeck long ago for MediEvolution, but my Web Minion never put it up. Later, when I went to post it via YouTube, I realized it went over the 10-minute limit. I suppose I should dust it off and figure out how to chop it into two.
• Lingwe points us to Journey to the Sea, an online magazine devoted to myth, and a debate about whether or not Tolkien's elves have free will.
• The Medieval Historical Fiction Novel of the Week is Sharan Newman's Death Comes As Epiphany: A Catherine LeVendeur Mystery.
• The Lost Fort has images from Caerphilly Castle and Chester.

This may be the last Miscellany before the weekend. If you're at Dragon*Con, come see me at the Tolkien/Lewis Breakfast Roundtable at 10AM Saturday in the Fairlie Room. Since the content will depend on what the fans spring on us, this could go in any direction!