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Month: July 2016

24 Jul 201627 Jul 2016 thijsporck Old English

The Marvels of the East: An early medieval Pokédex

The early medieval author of 'The Marvels of the East' collected various monsters that could rival Pokémon's finest, as this blog post reveals.

20 Jul 20164 Aug 2018 thijsporck Anglo-Saxons in the Low Countries, Medievalism, Missionaries, Vikings

Anglo-Saxons in the Low Countries: Boniface in Dorestad

1300 years ago, the Anglo-Saxon missionary Boniface arrived in Dorestad. This blog reports on an exhibition held in celebration of this event.

8 Jul 201612 Nov 2020 thijsporck Cnut the Great

How Cnut became Canute

How did the spelling for the name of Cnut the Great, Viking king of England from 1016 to 1035, change from to ? The Normans may be to blame...

2 Jul 20162 Jul 2016 thijsporck Anglo-Saxon anecdotes, Vikings

An Anglo-Saxon Anecdote: How beer and bees beat the Viking siege of Chester in c. 907

How to defeat a Viking siege? Tenth-century Anglo-Saxons prove the answer, apparently, could involve bees.

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