1 day ago by Inventions of the Text

The Enemy Within: The Function of the Witch-Queen in Old Norse Literature David Varley, Durham University 22nd February 2012 5:00 - 6:30 Hallgarth House Seminar Room ABSTRACT The paper will examine Old Norse presentations of the witch who is married into a royal family: she is culturally 'other' yet ...

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15 days ago by Jon-Paul

“We’ve got your six” is a statement that these days we hear so often, yet it is hard to find. Having its roots in Old Norse, Latin, and Greek, to include English, it appears that six runs very much a kin to sex therefore, every language seems to have a vested interest in the word. Fighter pilots use ...

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22 days ago by Viqueen

All things seem to be Lewis this week. I have just read the second volume of Peter May's Lewis Trilogy, The Lewis Man, which I think I enjoyed even more than The Blackhouse, about which I blogged last year. And I was delighted to see that the third volume will be called The Chess Men - I wonder if t ...

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26 days ago by Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic

Dr Elizabeth Boyle writes: On Saturday 14th January, just before the return of our students and the beginning of the new term, the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic welcomed sixty school teachers, from all over the country, for a one-day conference on the theme of 'Cultures in Contact'. The ...

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40 days ago by The Red Witch

I just finished a paper. It is a huge, huge subject. To do it justice , one could probably write a book. Valkyries are a Northern concept; they belong to the Viking Age. No other culture has the armoured, beautiful battle maidens in their mythology. At least no conclusive evidence for them has been ...

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44 days ago by Simon

Earlier this week I went to a Christmas show entitled Beasts and Beauties in Kendal. It wasn’t a traditional Christmas pantomime, though did include some pantomimesque elements, but rather a series of eight fairy/folk tales from around Europe, including: - The Emperor’s New Clothes or Kejserens nye ...

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53 days ago by Medievalists.net

Icelandic Sagas have captivated the minds of casual readers and historians alike due to their complex depiction of character and deeply resonant storylines. All of the characters are highly nuanced and developed, but many times it is the female characters that catch a reader’s attention because of t ...

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66 days ago by The Red Witch

I know, it is a sad play on words but I could not help myself. I did not have a great title ready for today's blog which is about the phrase 'egging on'. This week's reading in Old Norse was sections of The Volsung Saga and, in keeping with Signy's rather determined efforts to avenge her father's de ...

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74 days ago by Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic

The 2011 E.C. Quiggin Memorial Lecture will take place on Thursday 1st December, at 5pm, in room GR.06/07 of the English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge. Prof. Odd Einar Haugen, of the University of Bergen, will speak on: 'So that the writing may be less and quicker, and the parchment last ...

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85 days ago by The Red Witch

In Njal's Saga, Thord sees a goat covered in blood lying in a hollow that Njal cannot see. Njal tells him that he must have seen his fylgja and he should be careful. Thord says being careful will not help, he is about to die. He does die in an ambush by Sigmund and Skiolld, while Thrain stands by. I ...

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