- The Person of the Week is Queen Cynewise of Mercia -- not super-famous, but famous enough to get mentioned by Bede.
- The Weird Medieval Tribe of the Week is the Nuli, whose feet are on backwards. I wonder if they're good at soccer?
- The Heroic Age has a whole mess o' CfPs.
- Heroic Dreams asks if Conan would drive a Hummer, to which I respond, "Yes, but he wouldn't refer to it by the fruity slang term, 'Hummer.'"
- In the Middle changes their URL, has a couple new posts on disabilities, and has some links about Stonehenge.
- Medieval Material Culture has a few new posts, including two exhibits that, if you're lucky, may be in your area.
- Wil over at Moyen Age reminds us that honey still fights bacteria. The earlier medieval leechbooks also like to use honey ... and as I recall, Michael Drout's research said something about the role of honey in curing a sty in the eye.
- The Naked Philologist concludes "The Hilarious (After)Life of St. Eadmund," and decides to make humorous hagiographies a regular feature.
- Dr. Virago blegs for help in her grad-level class.
- Scribal Terror reminds us that medieval chastity belts never really existed -- I'm feeling lazy, so insert your own ribald comment here.
- Here's a version of Beowulf that's been making the rounds through e-mail. If your students find Raffel or Liuzza or Heaney too challenging, try that translation.
- Speaking of versions of Beowulf, also availabe is Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage, a musical. Having listened to a bit of the music, I find it, um, not to my taste*, but you might like it. More here and here.
*Which is my polite way of saying it was nearly unlistenable, but I'm sure there are folks would could endure and even enjoy that type of thing.
I love "Beowulf" and was looking forward to seeing the film. I was hugely disappointed - especially with all the ridiculous changes. Here's my take:
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I'd be very interested in reading what you thought of the film.
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