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explains his surprise at Cosijn’s publication and the reason for Braune’s and Niemeyer’s accusations (Leiden University Library, Special Collections, LTK 1762: g Sievers 10). https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/jodieblog3.jpgJodieBlog3Letter from Cosijn to Sievers, dated 27 June, 1894 (Leipzig Universitt Library, NL-203-4-1-109/1)https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/jodieblog2.jpgJodieBlog2Herman Paul, Wilhelm Braune and Richard Paul Wülckerhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/sievers-and-cosijn.jpgSievers and CosijnEduard Sievers and Pieter Jacob 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Right: Victorian reproduction now in Reading City Museumhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/blog-asobscenities4.jpgBlog.ASObscenities4Obscene monstrosities © The British Library, Cotton Tiberius B.v, fols. 80r, 82r, 83v.https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/blog-asobscenities3.jpgBlog.ASObscenities3Left; Naked Woden on Finglesham buckle (source); Right: Well-endowed Woden figurine © British Museum (source)https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/blog-asobscenities2.jpgBlog.AsObscenities2Sinner pulling his beard...and something else in late 8th-century Anglo-Saxon Gospels © Rome, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica, Barberini Lat. 570, fol. 1r https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/blog-asobscenities1.jpgBlog.AsObscenities1Ye Old Medieval Obscenities: Nuns picking the fruit from the penis tree © Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS. Fr. 25526, fol. 160r; Obscene pilgrim badge (1375-1450) with crowned vulva being carried by three walking penises (source)2020-07-01T07:13:18+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2020/06/25/teaching-old-english-on-youtube/2020-06-25T15:50:30+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2016/09/04/anglo-saxon-apps/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/asapps5b.jpgASApps5bEssentials of Old English app [screenshots from my LG3s]https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/asapps5a.jpgASApps5aEssentials of Old English app [screenshots from my LG3s]https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/asapps4.jpgASApps4Old English Dictionary app [screenshots from my LG3s]https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/asapps3.jpgASApps3Liberation Philology: Old English app [screenshots from my LG3s]https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/asapps2.jpgASApps2Readings in Early English app [screenshots from my LG3s]https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/blog-asapps1.jpgBlog.ASapps1English Old English Dictionary app[screenshots from my LG3s]2020-05-31T18:21:17+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2015/11/05/old-english-is-alive/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/blogoldenglish.jpgblogOldEnglishAnglo-Saxon Chronicle, s.a. 793. © British Library, Cotton Tiberius B. iv (Source)2020-05-31T18:19:26+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2015/10/29/passion-piles-and-a-pebble-what-ailed-alfred-the-great/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/asser_facsimile.pngAsser_facsimile1722 facsimile of manuscript containing Asser's 'Life of King Alfred' (source)https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/alfredblog2.jpgAlfredBlog2Bald's Leechbook © The British Library, Royal 12 D XVIIhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/alfredblog1.pngAlfredBlog1Genealogical tree of Æthelwulf of Wessex (reign 839-858) © The British Library, Royal 14 B V2020-05-31T18:15:24+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2015/10/18/adelbertusakker/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/blogadalbertus5.jpgBlogAdalbertus5Adalbert's latest miracle: Beer. https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/adalbertusblog4.jpgAdalbertusBlog4Breca the Pug and the well of Adalbert.https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/adalbertusblog3.jpgAdalbertusBlog3Adelbertusakker, Egmond. Left: Outlines of late medieval stone church; Right: Well of Adalbert.https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/blog-adalbertus2jpg1.jpgBlog.Adalbertus2jpghttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/blog-adalbertus11.jpgBlog.Adalbertus1Shrine devoted to Adalbert of Egmond. Adelbertusakker, Egmondhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/blog-adalbertus2jpg.jpgBlog.Adalbertus2jpgWooden carvings of Dirk Schuit, Count Dirk I and St Adalberthttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/blog-adalbertus1.jpgBlog.Adalbertus1Shrine devoted to Adalbert of Egmond. Adelbertusakker, Egmond2022-06-26T19:05:31+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2015/11/12/arseling-a-word-coined-by-alfred-the-great/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/alfredblog2.pngAlfredBlog2Paris Psalter, fol 5r. © Paris, BnF, https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/blog-ppearsling.jpgBlog.PPEarslingParis Psalter, fol 37v. © Paris, BnF, 2020-05-31T18:08:21+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2015/10/11/hygelac/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/bloghygelac3.pngBlogHygelac3Higelac cwom faran flotherge on Fresna land… London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius A.xv, fol. 197r.https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/blog-hygelac2.jpgBlog.Hygelac2The Rijnsburg belt buckle and the Oegstgeest bowl. Both are part of the collection of the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden. https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/blog-hygelac1.jpgBlog.Hygelac1Et fiunt mire magnitudinis ut rex Higlacus qui imperauit Getas… Leiden, UB, VLO 60, fol. 3r. 2020-05-31T18:02:48+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2020/05/26/the-familiar-and-the-foreign-in-old-germanic-studies-2017/2023-07-30T08:26:07+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2020/03/01/oliphaunts/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/tpblog.elephants6.jpgTPBlog.Elephants6"On þyssum beoð acende þa miclan mænego olfenda" [in these (places) are born the great multitudes of camels]. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius A.xv, fol. 101v.https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/tpblog.elephants5.jpgTPBlog.Elephants5Two late medieval depictions of Eleazar's death. London, British Library, Harley 4996, fol. 25v; London, British Library, Sloane 361, fol. 27rhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/tpblog.elephants4.jpgTPBlog.Elephants4Oliphaunts with houses on their backs in The Lord of the Rings filmshttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/tpblog.elephants3.jpgTPBlog.Elephants3Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 302, pp. 16-17https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/tpblog.elephants2.jpgTPBlog.Elephants2https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/tpblog.elephants1.jpgTPBlog.Elephants1Cambridge, University Library, MS Ii.1.33, fol. 189r.2020-05-24T11:20:34+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2020/05/03/dwarf-begone/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/ribe-skull.jpgRibe SkullRibe skull fragment. (source)https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/wid-dweorh6.jpgWiD Dweorh6A dog and a remedy against a dwarf. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius C.iii, fols. 80v-81vhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/wid-dweorh4.jpgWiD Dweorh4Charm against a dwarf on a flyleaf. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Auct. F. 3. 6, fol. 1rhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/wid-dweorh3.jpgWiD Dweorh3Two treatments against "dweorh". London, British Library, Harley MS 585, fol. 165rhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/wid-dweorh2.jpgWiD Dweorh2https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/wid-dweorh.jpgWiD DweorhWið dweorh. London, British Library, Harley MS 585, fol. 167r https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/thor_kicks_litr.jpgThor_kicks_LitrThor kicks the dwarf Lit into Baldr's funeral pyre (image from: Emil Doepler, Walhall, die Götterwelt der Germanen (Berlin, ca. 1905), 53). https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/dwarfisdead.jpgDwarfIsDead2020-05-24T11:19:50+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2020/05/18/medieval-manuscripts-in-modern-media-anglo-saxon-manuscripts-spotted-in-vikings-the-last-kingdom-and-assassins-creed-valhalla/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/banner-vikings-lastking-valhalla.jpgBanner vikings lastking valhallahttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/vikings-barberini-gospels.jpgVikings Barberini Gospelshttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/last-kingom-s03e09-alfreds-scribble-remastered.jpgLast Kingom S03E09 Alfreds scribble - remasteredhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/last-kingom-s03e03-source-image-pharaoh-remastered.jpgLast Kingom S03E03 Source image pharaoh remasteredhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/last-kingdom-s03e09-chronicle-pahges.jpgLast Kingdom S03e09 Chronicle pahgeshttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/bayeux-tapestry-in-the-last-kingdom.jpgBayeux Tapestry in The Last Kingdomhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/asmanuscript-spotted-noahs-ark.jpgASManuscript Spotted Noahs ARKhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/last-kingom-s03e03-source-image-pharaoh.jpgLast Kingom S03E03 Source image pharaohhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/last-kingom-s03e03-alfreds-chronicle.jpgLast Kingom S03E03 Alfreds chroniclehttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/last-kingom-s03e09-alfreds-scribble.jpgLast Kingom S03E09 Alfreds scribble2020-05-24T11:18:19+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2015/12/10/anglo-saxons-in-the-low-countries-ghent/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/blogghent5.jpgBlogGhent5Ruined remnants of St Peter's abbey, Ghent.https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/bloggent3.jpgBlogGent3Ye Old Medieval Castle. Gravensteen, Ghent.https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/bloggent1.jpgBlogGent1Ælfthryth's final resting place, now an underground parking garage in front of St Peter's Abbey, Ghent.https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/bloggent2.jpgBlogGent2The undercroft. Gravensteen, Ghent.https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/bloggent4.jpgBlogGent4Baldwin the Bald and Ælfthryth of Wessex, 16th-century depiction. © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché KM792 (source) 2020-05-21T19:13:00+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2018/04/30/the-history-of-beowulfs-sandwich-a-sketch-about-fake-news-from-1909/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/beowulfsandwichblog41.jpgBeowulfSandwichBlog4Front page of Het nieuws van den dag voor Nederlandsch-Indië, 14-04-1910.https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/beowulfsandwichblog4.jpgBeowulfSandwichBlog4https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/beowulfsandwichblog5.jpgBeowulfSandwichBlog5https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/beowulfsandwichblog3.jpgBeowulfSandwichBlog3Sketch of Mr. A. W. Kamp by R. van der Hem on the cover of A. W. Kamp's Eigen liedjes, vertalingen en bewerkingen (The Hague, 1927)https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/beowulfsandwichblog11.jpgBeowulfSandwichBlog1Announcements of performances by A.W. Kamp featuring 'The history of Beowulf's sandwich' in Leeuwarder courant (05-10-1909), Sumatra post (26-03-1910) and Goudsche Courant (04-01-1917) https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/beowulfsandwichblog1.jpgBeowulfSandwichBlog1Announcements of performances by A.W. Kamp featuring 'The history of Beowulf's sandwich' in Goudsche Courant (04-01-1917) 2020-05-14T15:45:46+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2019/09/14/boaring-medievalist/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ass.jpgASShttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/anglosaxon.aethelstan.jpgAngloSaxon.AethelstanOne of the few contemporary uses of the term 'Anglo-Saxon': a twelfth-century copy of a tenth-century charter of Athelstan "ongolsaxna cyning" [king of the Anglo-Saxons]2020-05-03T12:47:35+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2019/01/14/anglo-saxon-gift-horses/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/asgifthorse-7.jpgasgifthorse 7https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/sutton_helm_rider.gifsutton_helm_riderWarrior on horseback from the seventh-century Anglo-Saxon Sutton Hoo Helmet (source)https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/asgifthorse-2a.jpgasgifthorse 2aLondon, British Library, Cotton Vitellius A.xv, fol. 155vhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/683a3dbac902eb5583ead3f29494118e.jpg683a3dbac902eb5583ead3f29494118eWarrior on horseback on the seventh-century Anglo-Saxon Sutton Hoo helmet (source)https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/asgifthorse4.jpgasgifthorse4Textus Roffensis, fol. 35vhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/asgifthorse3.jpgasgifthorse3A reference to "the white horse that Leofwine gave me" in the will of Æthelstan Ætheling (d. 1014). London, British Library, Stowe Ch 37.https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/asgifthorses2.jpgasgifthorses2A boat full of Norman horses on the Bayeux Tapestry. https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/asgifthorses.jpgasgifthorsesTwo men on horseback in the Old English Hexateuch. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B.iv, fol. 141v.2019-10-22T07:51:05+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2019/09/29/pigs-and-bagpipes-geoffrey-chaucers-miller-in-context/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/msil.blog_.sowbanner2-578x220.jpgMSiL.Blog.SowBanner2-578x2202019-10-09T11:50:11+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2019/09/21/the-boar-who-would-be-king/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/boaringmedievalist-royalboar.jpgBoaringMedievalist - royalboarCrowned boar mount. (Image: © PAS Database ID: LON-A33FF5, image provided by Kate Sumnall - WikiCommons)2019-09-23T10:15:18+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/press-and-popularization/other/2019-09-21T14:38:11+00:00weekly0.6https://thijsporck.com/research-and-publications/tolkien-studies/2019-09-14T14:46:04+00:00weekly0.6https://thijsporck.com/2019/05/13/anglo-saxon-elves/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/aselves5.jpgASElves5London, British Library, Add. 32246, fol. 21r.https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/aselvesbanner.jpgASElvesBannerhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/aselves4.jpgASElves4"Ælfwine" depicted in a roundel. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Junius 11, p. 2.https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/aselves3.jpgASElves3Inscription in London, British Library, Cotton Titus D.xxvi, fol. 13vhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/aselves2.jpgASElves2The Psalmist harassed by demons (or elves) in the Eadwine Psalter. Cambridge, University Library, MS R.17.1, fol. 66r.https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/aselves1-1.jpgASElves1Old English elf glosses in Leiden, University Library, VLQ 106, fol. 10rhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/aselves1.jpgASElves1Old English elf glosses. Leiden, University Library, VLQ 106, fol. 10r.2019-05-14T12:30:37+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2019/02/15/old-age/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/da.oldageblog1banner-1.jpgDA.OldAgeBlog1Bannerhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/da.oldageblog1banner.jpgDA.OldAgeBlog1Bannerhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/lias.blog5_.jpgLIAS.Blog5Anglo-Saxon saint Guthlac being dragged to Hell - note the wrinkles and beards of some of the souls in the Hell mouth! London, British Library, Harley Roll Y.6.https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/da.oldageblog2.jpgDA.OldAgeBlog2Anglo-Saxon saint Cuthbert (right) addressing the elderly Hildmaer and his wife. London, British Library, Yates Thompson MS 26, fol. 33v.https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/da.oldageblog3.jpgDA.OldAgeBlog3Old man Edward the Confessor (c. 1004-1066) dying of old age on the Bayeux Tapestryhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/da.oldageblog1.jpgDA.OldAgeBlog12019-02-16T08:23:44+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/press-and-popularization/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/blogporckpress.jpgBlogPorckPress2019-02-10T16:58:35+00:00weekly0.6https://thijsporck.com/2017/05/22/old-english-memes/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/histoy-of-english-as-meme.jpghistoy of english as memehttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/thisismyvoicememe.jpgthisismyvoicememehttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/memewealhtheow-surprised.jpgmemewealhtheow surprisedhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/oememe-hwatc3bec3a6thc3a6med.jpgOEMeme.HwatÞætHæmedhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/blog-oememe14.jpgBlog.OEMeme14https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/blog-oememe13.jpgBlog.OEMeme13https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/blog-oememe12.jpgBlog.OEMeme12https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/blog-oememe11.jpgBlog.OEMeme11https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/blog-oememe100.jpgBlog.OEMeme100https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/blog-oememe9bb.jpgBlog.OEMeme9bb2019-01-11T15:59:19+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2016/01/07/anglo-saxon-aphrodisiacs/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/blogaphrodisiac.jpgBlogaphrodisiacAnglo-Saxon Aphrodisiacs in Bald's Leechbook © The British Library, Royal MS 12 D XVI, fol. 54v 2018-12-31T22:24:33+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2016/01/14/scribal-abuse-in-the-middle-ages/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/thijs-3.pngthijs-3Ouch! © Durham Cathedral Library, Hunter 100, fol.44rhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/thijs-2.pngthijs-2“willimot writ þus oððe bet” ; "writ þus oððe bet oððe þine hyde forlet" © Bodleian Library, Hatton 20, fol. 53v and 55r (bottom)https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/thijs-1.pngthijs-1'Writ þus oððe bet ride aweg Ælfmær pattafox þu wilt swingan Ælfric cild' © British Library, Harley 55, fol. 4v2018-12-31T22:22:31+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2016/03/16/finnsburgfragment/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/blog-fandf4.jpgBlog.FandF4https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/blog-fandf3.jpgBlog.FandF3https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/blog-fandf2.jpgBlog.FandF2https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/blog-fandf1.jpgBlog.FandF12018-12-31T22:19:26+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2016/03/25/passion-for-anglosaxons/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/blogpassion5.jpgBlogPassion5Last Supper in the St Augustine Gospels; Odo's banquet on the Bayeux Tapestryhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/passionblog2.jpgPassionBlog2Raising of Lazarus (Lazarus is wrapped in a cloth and comes out of a weird tower shaped coffin?); Christ washes feet; Judas betrays Christ with a kiss.https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/passionblog3.jpgPassionBlog3Christ is arrested; Trial of Christ before Caiaphas; Mocking of Christ (note how the face of the mocker on the right is almost worn away - the result of early medieval bible thumpers?)https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/passionblog4.jpgPassionBlog4Pontius Pilate washing his hand (aided by a man pouring water over his hands with a ladle); Christ is led away from Pilate; Simon helps Christ carry the crosshttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/passionblog1.jpgPassionBlog1Entry of Christ into Jerusalem (celebrated on Palm Sunday) ; The Last Supper (celebrated on Maundy Thursday); Garden of Getsehmane (above: Christ praying after the Last Supper; below: Christ finds disciples asleep).https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/st-augustine-gospels-pg.jpgSt Augustine.Gospels.pgSt Augustine Gospels, 125r (source)https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/leningradbedehires.jpgleningradbedehiresEarliest known historiated initial, probably depicting Saint Augustine in the Saint Petersburg Bede (source)2018-12-31T22:17:02+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2016/05/04/doctorwho2/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/whoblog2-3.jpgWhoBlog2-3Wemba and the Doctor © Doctor Who #5 https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/whoblog2-2.jpgWhoBlog2-2The Doctor at Wemba's Lea © Doctor Who #5https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/whoblog2-1.jpgWhoBlog2-1Alfred the Great and the Sixth Doctor2018-12-31T22:15:24+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2016/04/29/doctorwho1/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/blogwho6.pngBlogWho6The tenth doctor (David Tennant) holding the 'Cup of Athelstan' © BBChttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/blogwho5.jpgBlogWho5Woden's warriors © TV Comic Annual 1976https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/blogwho4.jpgBlogWho4Woden's w arriors © TV Comic Annual 1976https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/drwholakevortigern.jpgDrWhoLakeVortigernTARDIS materializes 4 kilometers away from Lake Vortigern © BBChttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/blogwho2.jpgBlogWho2Doctor Conkerer © Dr. Who Magazine, no. 162 (July 1990)https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/blogwho1.jpgBlogWho1Doctor Conkeror © Dr. Who Magazine, no. 162 (July 1990)2018-12-31T22:14:14+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2016/05/12/l%c7%a3ce-hwa-doctor-who-and-the-norman-conquest/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/whoblog3-2.jpgWhoBlog3-2Bill Mudron's 'Baywheux Tapestry', based on 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry © Bill Mudron (SOURCE)https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/drwhoblog3-1.jpgDrWhoBlog3-1The Doctor and Peri meet 'Hereward' © Doctor Who Annual (1984)2018-12-31T22:12:50+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2016/05/16/an-anglo-saxon-anecdote-earl-siward-and-the-proper-ways-to-die/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/blog-asa4.jpgBlog.ASA42018-12-31T22:11:17+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2016/04/22/oehexateuch/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/hexablog1a.jpgHexaBlog1aJacobs gifts to Esau (Gen. 32:13-14) © The British Library, Cotton Claudius B IV, 48v-49vhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/hexablog2.jpgHexaBlog2Lot's daughters make their father drunk (left); Lot sleeps with his daughter (right) (Gen. 19:32-33) © The British Library, Cotton Claudius B IV, 33v https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/hexablog2b.jpgHexablog2bLot's wife is turned into a pillar of salt © The British Library, Cotton Claudius B IV, 33r https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/hexablog2a.jpgHexablog2aSodom and Gommorah are destroyed by rains of fire and brimstone (Gen. 19:24) © The British Library, Cotton Claudius B IV, 32v https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/hexablog1.jpgHexaBlog1Jacobs gifts to Esau (Gen. 32:13-14) © The British Library, Cotton Claudius B IV, 5v https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/hexablog3.jpgHexaBlog3Five stages of manuscript illustration in the Old English Hexateuch © The British Library, Cotton Claudius B IV2018-12-31T22:10:29+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2016/06/05/alcuinundrums/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/raban-maur_alcuin_otgar.jpgRaban-Maur_Alcuin_OtgarAlcuin (middle) with Raban Maur (left) and Archbishop Otgar of Mainz (right) (SOURCE)https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/alcuinundrums-pigeons.jpgAlcuinundrums.pigeonsPigeons in fourteenth-century manuscript © The British Library, Royal 2 B VII, f. 117v https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/alcuinundrums-camels.jpgAlcuinundrums.camelsCamels in the Old English Hexateuch © The British Library, Cotton Claudius B.iv, f. 48v https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/alcuinundrums-doghare.jpgAlcuinundrums.doghareDog chasing a hare in 13th-century manuscript © The British Library, Harley 928, f. 10 https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/alcuinundrums-oxen.jpgAlcuinundrums.oxenOxen in 14th-century manuscripts © The British Library, Royal 2 B VII, f. 75 https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/alcuinundrums-boat.jpgAlcuinundrums.BoatWoman, man and two children and a boat, c. 1400 © The British Library, Royal 10 E IV, f. 122v https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/alcuinundrums-stork.jpgAlcuinundrums.StorkStork in fifteenth-century manuscript © The British Library, Additional 16577, f. 41v https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/blog-alcuinundrums1.jpgBlog.AlcuinundrumsDutch Anglo-Saxonist and an even number of Anglo-Saxon pigs at Bedes World, Jarrowhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/blog-alcuinundrums.jpgBlog.Alcuinundrums2018-12-31T22:08:06+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2016/12/04/cuthwine/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cuthwineblog81.jpgcuthwineblog8The martyrdom of the Holy Innocents (c) Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp, M 17.4, fol. 16rhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cuthwineblog5.jpgcuthwineblog5Jonah being swallowed by a whale (looking like an eel!). (c) Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp, M 17.4, fol. 16rhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cuthwineblog4.jpgcuthwineblog4Jonah falls out of the boat (c)Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp, M 17.4, fol. 15vhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cuthwineblog3.jpgcuthwineblog3Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac (c) Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp, M 17.4, fol. 8rhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cuthwineblog2.jpgcuthwineblog2FINIT FINES FINE CUĐUUINI (c) Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp, M 17.4, fol. 68vhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cuthwineblog0.jpgcuthwineblog0Christ enthroned in 9th-c. copy of a manuscript once owned by Cuthwine of Dunwich (c) Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp, M 17.4, fol. 1r2018-12-31T22:06:14+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2017/01/02/anglo-saxon-bynames/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/blog-doomsdaynicknames-0.jpgblog-doomsdaynicknames-0Peterborough Chronicle s.a. 1085 © Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Misc. 636, fol. 62vhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/blog-doomsdaynicknames-9.jpgblog-doomsdaynicknames-9Aluuinus Deule – Alwine ‘The devil’. Image source: opendomesday.orghttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/blog-doomsdaynicknames-8.jpgblog-doomsdaynicknames-8Aluuardus belrap - Alward 'Bell-rope'. Image source: opendomesday.orghttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/blog-doomsdaynicknames-7.jpgblog-doomsdaynicknames-7Goduuinus uuachefet - Godwin 'Weak-feet'. Image source: opendomesday.orghttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/blog-doomsdaynicknames-6.jpgblog-doomsdaynicknames-6Alricus Wintremelc - Alric ‘Winter-milk’. Image source: Opendomesday.orghttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/blog-doomsdaynicknames-5.jpgblog-doomsdaynicknames-5Aluui Ceuresbert – Alwy ‘Beetle-beard’. Image soucre: Opendomesday.orghttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/blog-doomsdaynicknames-31.jpgblog-doomsdaynicknames-3Hunfridus uis de leuu – Humphrey ‘Face of a wolf’ https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/blog-doomsdaynicknames-4.jpgblog-doomsdaynicknames-4Rogerus Deus saluaet dominas – Roger ‘God save the ladies’https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/blog-doomsdaynicknames-2.jpgblog-doomsdaynicknames-2Bernardus Panceuolt – Bernard ‘Paunch-face’https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/blog-doomsdaynicknames-1.jpgblog-doomsdaynicknames-1Humfridus aurei testiculi – Humphrey ‘Golden testicles’2018-12-31T22:00:41+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2017/01/23/grandmothers/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/blog-grandmothers3.jpgblog-grandmothers3Will of Wynflæd, circa AD 950 (11th-century copy, British Library Cotton Charters viii. 38) (source)https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/blog-grandmothers2.jpgblog-grandmothers2Charter of King Æthelred to Burton Abbey, confirmation of the will of Wulfric Spot, AD 1004 - text of will at the bottom (source)https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/blog-grandmothers01.jpgblog-grandmothers0On the right: List of Old English glosses for kinship terms, starting with "Pater: fæder", featuring "Aua: ealdemoder" (underlined). © The British Library, Add. 32246, fol. 18v. https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/blog-grandmothers0.jpgblog-grandmothers0List of Old English glosses for kinship terms, starting with "Pater: fæder", featuring "Aua: ealdemoder" (underlined). © The British Library, Add. 32246, fol. 18v. https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/blog-grandmothers1.jpgblog-grandmothers1Will of Ætheling Athelstan (S 1503). Source image2018-12-31T21:58:32+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2017/03/20/singing-ox/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/blog-singingcow.jpgBlog.SingingCow2018-12-31T21:57:21+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2017/06/19/parchment-and-parliament/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/blog-prchment5.jpgBlog.PRCHMENT5Medieval monkeys making parchment (source; Erik Kwakkel's Tumblr-page)https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/blogporckparchment4.jpgBlog,PorckParchment4https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/blogporckparchment.jpgBlog,PorckParchmentPorck gets a mention in Parliament https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/blog-prchment.jpgBlog.PRCHMENTDogs, birds and a self-portrait(?) on the opening page of the Gospel of St John © London, British Library, Cotton Nero D.iv, fol, 211rhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/blogporckparchment2.jpgBlog,PorckParchment2https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/blogporckparchment3.jpgBlog,PorckParchment32018-12-31T21:51:37+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2017/07/31/old-english-grammar-videos/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/oegrammarbytres.jpgOEGRammarBytres2018-12-31T21:49:57+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2017/09/29/word-processing-in-early-medieval-england-browsing/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/tweet-triangletext.jpgTweet.TriangleTexthttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/blog-royal8ciii-avoid-the-hole.jpgBlog.Royal8ciii - Avoid the hole© British Library, Royal MS 8 C III, fol. 53rhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/blog-royal8ciii-endwords-small.jpgBlog.Royal8ciii - Endwords smallConsummatis, habitation, formidine with end words hanging in the lower margins. @ British Library, Royal MS 8 C III, fols. 45r, 46r, 48rhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/blog-royal8ciii-justification.jpgBlog.Royal8ciii - justification© British Library, Royal MS 8 C III, fol. 41vhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/blog-royal8ciii-justifycation-with-spaces-gra-ti-as.jpgBlog.Royal8ciii - justifycation with spaces gra ti as© British Library, Royal MS 8 C III, fol. 81rhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/tweet-royalms8ciii.jpgTweet.RoyalMS8CIIIhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/blog-royal8ciii-initialisplanned.jpgBlog.Royal8ciii - initialisplannedInitals planned, but not executed © British Library, Royal MS 8 C III, fols. 2r, 6v2018-12-31T21:48:47+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/research-and-publications/cosijn-franck/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ResearchTraineeship2019.2.jpgResearchTraineeship2019.22018-12-25T21:11:47+00:00weekly0.6https://thijsporck.com/2016/08/08/paws-pee-and-pests/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/catpeems2.jpgCatPeeMS2© Cologne, Historisches Archiv, G.B. quarto, 249, fol. 68rhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/catmsblog1.jpgCATMSBlog1The TICA Trend magazine. My cat Cnut was most pleased to read the magazine 'for fabulous felines, fun and friendship'; Breca the Pug was not impressed.2018-12-10T21:57:59+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2018/10/07/old-english-love-poem/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/blog-lovepoem7.jpgBlog.LovePoem7https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/blog-lovepoem6.jpgBlog.LovePoem6https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/blog-lovepoem-banner.jpgBlog.LovePoem - bannerhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/blog-lovepoem5.jpgBlog.LovePoem5Klazina's death notice in Algemeen handelsblad (15-01-1913); The Bollands in their garden in Leiden (Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, Bolland archief).https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/blog-lovepoem3.jpgBlog.LovePoem3Bolland family in Leiden: two housekeepers, son Alfred, G.J.P.J. Bolland and Klazina Bolland (holding a cat) (Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, Bolland archief)https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/blog-lovepoem4.jpgBlog.LovePoem4Klazina and Gerard Bolland (Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, Bolland archief)https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/blog-lovepoem2.jpgBlog.LovePoem2Young lovers: Klazina Bakker and G.J.P.J. Bolland (Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, Bolland archief); four more halflines of "Se glēo-mann".https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/blog-lovepoem1.jpgBlog.LovePoem1Opening lines of "Se glēo-mann" [The minstrel] in a letter from Bolland to Cosijn (10-10-1879). Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, LTK 1762: c, no. 1b. 2018-10-08T05:45:20+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/research-and-publications/edited-volumes/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/abc3a4g2018-cover.jpgABäG2018.Coverhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/abc3a4g-tweet-cover.jpgABäG.tweet coverhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/neopbook.jpgNEOPBook2018-08-06T20:50:27+00:00weekly0.6https://thijsporck.com/2018/08/06/leiden-leechbook/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/blog-llb-4.jpgBlog.LLB.4Ingredients mentioned in the Leiden Leechbook's remedies against headaches: A crow's brains, a coot, a swallow's nest, a columbine plant, the plantain and the elder tree. https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/blog-llb-10.jpgBlog.LLB.10Old English glosses or damages to the manuscript? Leiden University Library, VLF 96a, ff. 1r-1v.https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/blog-llb-9.jpgBlog.LLB.9Remedies for poor eyesight in the Leiden Leechbook (Leiden University Library, VLF 96a, fol. 1v) and Leechbook III (London, British Library, Royal MS 12 D.xvii, fol. 112r). https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/blog-llb-8.jpgBlog.LLB.8Ink offset or Old English gloss ellærn 'elder tree'?https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/blog-llb-7.jpgBlog.LLB.7An Old English gloss or a scrape? Leiden University Library, VLF 96a, fol. 1r.https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/blog-llb-6.jpgBlog.LLB.6A Latin-Brttonic remedy for a parasitic complexion. Leiden University Library, VLF 96a, fol. 2r.https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/blog-llb-5.jpgBlog.LLB.5Old Irish tromm glossing Latin sambuci. Leiden University Library, VLF 96a. https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/blog-llb-3.jpgBlog.LLB.3Leiden Leechbook. Leiden University Library, VLF 96a, fol. 1vhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/blog-llb-2.jpgBlog.LLB.2First three full remedies from the Leiden Leechbook. Leiden University Library, VLF 96a, fol. 1rhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/blog-llb-1.jpgBlog.LLB.1The Leiden Leechbook. Leiden University Library, VLF 96A, ff. 1v-2r2018-08-11T22:56:44+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2017/12/25/anglo-saxon-magi/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/blog-magi-antwerp-sedulius-15v.jpgBlog.Magi Antwerp Sedulius 15vThe Adoration of the Magi © Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp, M 17.4, fol. 15v https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/blog-magi1.jpgBlog.Magi1The Adoration of the Magi on the Franks Casket. British Museum (source)https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/blog-magi-reg-lat-12_0166_fa_0078v_m.jpgBlog.Magi. Reg.lat.12_0166_fa_0078v_mAdoration of the Magi in the margin of Psalm 71:10-11 in the Bury St Edmunds Psalter. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Reg.lat 12, fol. 78vhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/blog-magi-cambridge-trinity-college-17-1-fol-124v.jpgBlog.Magi Cambridge Trinity College 17.1 fol 124vPsalm 71:10-11 in the Eadwine Psalter. Cambridge, Trinity College, 17.1, f. 124vhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/blog-magi2-bl-add-ms-49598-f24v.jpgBlog.Magi2 - BL Add MS 49598 f24vThe Adoration of the Magi in the Benedictional of St Æthelwold. British Library, Add. MS 49598, f. 24vhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/blog-magi3-rouen-bm-ms-0274-f-037r-dream.jpgBlog.Magi3 - Rouen - BM - ms. 0274, f. 037r dreamThe dream of the Magi in the Missal of Robert of Jumièges. Rouen, BM, ms. 274, f. 037rhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/blog-magi3-rouen-bm-ms-0274-f-037.jpgBlog.Magi3 - Rouen - BM - ms. 0274, f. 037https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/blog-magi3-rouen-bm-ms-0274-f-036vr-magi-at-herod.jpgBlog.Magi3 - Rouen - BM - ms. 0274, f. 036vr magi at HerodKing Herod in the Missal of Robert of Jumièges. Rouen, BM, ms. 0274, f. 036vrhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/blog-magi3-rouen-bm-ms-0274-f-036vr-magi.jpgBlog.Magi3 - Rouen - BM - ms. 0274, f. 036vr magiThree magi on their way to Jerusalem in the Missal of Robert of Jumièges. Rouen, BM, ms. 0274, f. 036v2018-08-05T06:59:52+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2017/10/30/reading-between-the-lines/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/glosses-scratchedgloss.jpgGlosses.ScratchedGlosshttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/dotglosses1.jpgDotGlosseshttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/dotglosses.jpgDotGlosseshttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/pavinglettersglosses.jpgPavingLettersGlosseshttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/glosses-multiplegloss.jpgGlosses.MultipleGlosshttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/glosses-wordforword.jpgGlosses.WordForWord2018-08-05T06:56:25+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2018/01/29/grendels-mother/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/blog-grendelsmumlastbottombanner.jpgBlog.GrendelsMumLastBottomBannerhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/blog-pietc3a0-1.jpgBlog.Pietà 1The Pietà of Grendelangelo. Art work by Jolene Witkam.https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/blog-grendelsmumangelina1.jpgBlog.GrendelsMumAngelina1Angelina Jolie as Grendel's motherhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/blog-grendelsmumeffectofmovies.jpgBlog.GrendelsMumEffectofMovieshttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/blog-grendelsmumuglybaby.jpgBlog.GrendelsMumUglybabyhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/blog-grendelsmumwomanheadonpole3.jpgBlog.GrendelsMumWomanheadOnPole3https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/blog-grendelsmumwomanawoman2.jpgBlog.GrendelsMumWomanAWoman2"ides aglæcwif = lady warrior-woman. Grendel's mother is called aglæcwif which can be translated as warrior-woman. Aglæc was also used for Beowulf. I don't think she's a monster because she's described as 'ides' which means 'lady'."https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/blog-grendelsmumborscht.jpgBlog.GrendelsMumBorschthttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/blog-grendelsmumbeardedlady.jpgBlog.GrendelsMumBeardedLady"Grendel's mother is like a hybrid of a sea-creature with a fish-like tail and a hairy woman beast with a beard.https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/blog-grendelsmummyswamp.jpgBlog.GrendelsMumMySwamp2018-08-05T06:52:30+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2018/02/12/centaurs/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/blog-centaurs-7.jpgBlog.Centaurs.7https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/blog-centaurs-6.jpgBlog.Centaurs.6Sagitarius in London, British Library Cotton MS Julius A VI, fol. 8vhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/blog-centaurs-5.jpgBlog.Centaurs.5A man and a centaur presenting a book to a blue-veiled individual in the Old English Herbal. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius c.iii, fol. 19rhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/blog-centaurs-4.jpgBlog.Centaurs.4The Old English Version of the Enlarged Rule of Chrodegang. Cambridge, Parker Library, CCCC MS 191, p. 128https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/blog-centaurs-2.jpgBlog.Centaurs.2Part of a marginal glossary in London, British Library, Additional 32246, fol. 3r.https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/blog-centaurs-1.jpgBlog.Centaurs.1Centaurs in London, British Library, Cotton Vitelius a.xv, fol. 103r; on the Bayeux Tapestry (source); and on an Anglo-Saxon coin (source)2018-08-05T06:49:34+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2018/03/11/creepy-crawlies/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/blog-insects-cottonvitelliusciii-59r.jpgBlog.Insects.CottonVitelliusCiii - 59rCreepy crawlies in the Old English Herbarium. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius C.iii, fol. 59rhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/blog-insects-cottonvitelliusciii-78r.jpgBlog.Insects.CottonVitelliusCiii - 78rAnother scorpion from the Old English Herbarium. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius C.iii, fol. 78rhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/blog-insects-royal12dxvii-118r-2.jpgBlog.Insects.Royal12DXVII 118r - 2Cures against severed and shrunken sinews in Leechbook III. London, British Library, Royal 12 D XVII, fol. 118rhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/blog-insects-royal12dxvii-118r.jpgBlog.Insects.Royal12DXVII 118rCure against spider bite in Leechbook III. London, British Library, Royal 12 D XVII, fol. 118rhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/blog-insects-cottonvitelliusciii-21v.jpgBlog.Insects.CottonVitelliusCiii - 21vThe entry for common plantain in the Old English Herbarium. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius C. iii, fol. 21vhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/blog-insects-cottonvitelliusciii-50r.jpgBlog.Insects.CottonVitelliusCiii - 50rSome creepy crawlies and an image of the common ivy in the Old English Herbarium. London British Library, Cotton Vitellius C.iii, fol. 50rhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/blog-insects-leidenglossary.jpgBlog.Insects.LeidenGlossaryInsects in the Leiden Glossary. Leiden University Library, Special Collections, VLQ 69, fol. 35v. 2018-08-05T06:44:27+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2018/01/15/gundahari/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/hagenthrowingtreasure-in-rhine.jpgHagenThrowingTreasure In RhineAccording to the Nibelungenlied, Gunther had ordered Hagen to throw the treasure in the Rhine. This statue in Worms commemorates this legend. (source)https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/gunnar-snakepit.jpgGunnar SnakePitGunnar, playing his harp with his toes, in a snake pit. Hylestad stave church.https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/widsithblog.jpgWidsithBlogOpening lines of Widsith in the Exeter Book (source)https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/gundaharius-in-lex-burngionum.jpgGundaharius in Lex BurngionumGebega, Godomare, Gischaharius and Gundaharius in the Lex Burgundionum2018-08-05T06:40:36+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2018/03/26/anglo-saxon-trivia-quiz-1/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/blog-emmm-fb-banner.jpgBlog.EMMM FB bannerhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/blog-emmm-fat-child-l-112r.jpgBlog.EMMM fat child L 112rhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/blog-emmm-fat-child-l-120r.jpgBlog.EMMM fat child L 120rhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/blog-emmm-fat-child-l-152v.jpgBlog.EMMM fat child L 152vhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/blog-emmm-cnn.jpgBlog.EMMM CNNhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/blog-emmm-oven-roof-brussels-l-152v.jpgBlog.EMMM oven roof Brussels L 152vhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/blog-emmm-worms-bl-118r.jpgBlog.EMMM worms BL 118rhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/blog-emmm-dogs-urine-bl-116r.jpgBlog.EMMM dog's urine BL 116rhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/blog-emmm-aphrodisiac-76v-mdq.jpgBlog.EMMM aphrodisiac 76v MdqAnglo-Saxon aphrodisiac in London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius C.iii, fol. 76v.https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/anglo-saxonleechquiz.jpgAnglo-SaxonLeechQuiz2018-11-18T21:42:48+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2018/06/20/redbad/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/redbadblog-6-oee-jackwouterse-is-willibrord-egbert-jan-weber-is-bonifatius.jpgRedbadBlog.6.OEE.JackWouterse is Willibrord & Egbert Jan Weber is BonifatiusPoster for Redbad (2018) and stills from the film: showing Anglo-Saxon missionaries Willibrord (Jack Wouterse) and Boniface (Egbert-Jan Weber) https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/redbadblog-5-old-frisian-text.jpgRedbadBlog.5 Old Frisian TextOld Frisian (8th-16th centuries) is closely related to Old English. This page shows a copy of the Brokmerbrief or Law of Brokmerland (Wiki Commons)https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/redbadblog-4.jpgRedbadBlog.4Redbad retracted his foot from the baptismal font. On the right: Anglo-Saxon missionary Willibrord (Source: https://www.catharijneconvent.nl/adlib/41334/) https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/redbadblog-3.jpgRedbadBlog.3Source: J. Wagenaar, Vaderlandsche Historie (Amsterdam, 1749), 370.https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/redbadblog-1.jpgRedbadBlog.1https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/redbadblog-buggacongratulates-boniface-fol-105v-lat-8112.jpgRedbadBlog.BuggaCongratulates Boniface, fol. 105v lat. 8112A tenth-century copy of Bugga's letter to Boniface. Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 8112, fol. 105v. 2018-08-05T06:30:52+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2017/05/15/anglo-saxon-cryptography/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/secretwriting-copenhagen1.jpgSecretWriting.Copenhagen© Copenhagen, Royal Library, G.K.S. 2034, 13 vhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/secretwritingcambridgecorpuschristi.jpgSecretWritingCambridgeCorpusChristiMy reproduction of dot-coded writing in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 326, p. 105 (Corpus Christi College does not allow the use of images of their manuscript, you can see a low-res image of this page here)https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/secretwrtingcopenhagen.jpgSecretWrtingCopenhagen© Copenhagen,https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/secretwriting-copenhagen.jpgSecretWriting.Copenhagen© Copenhagen, GKShttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/secretwriting-aelfwine.jpgSecretWriting.AElfwine© British Library, Cotton MS Titus D XXVII, f. 13vhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/secretwriting-reimsbibliothequemunicipale9-154r.jpgSecretWriting.ReimsBibliothequeMunicipale9 154r© Reims, Bibliotheque Municipale 9, fol. 154rhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/secretwriting-trinitycollegeb325-fol-99v.jpgSecretWriting.TrinityCollegeB325 fol 99v© Cambridge, Trinity College, B.3.25, fol. 99vhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/secretwriting-cambridgecorpuschristi.jpgSecretWriting.CambridgeCorpusChristi© Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 326, p. 105https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/secretwritinghugeburc.jpgSecretWritingHugeburc© München. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 1086, fol. 71vhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/secretwritinghugeburc1.jpgSecretWritingHugeburc1© München. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 1086, fol. 71v2020-07-26T17:00:52+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2017/06/12/scribal-complaints/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/blog-complaints00.jpgBlog.Complaints00© London, British Library, Royal 8 B.xi, fol. 145rhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/blog-complaints52.jpgBlog.Complaints52© British Library, Harley 3013, fol. 96r.https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/blog-complaints51.jpgBlog.Complaints51© London, British Library, Royal 6 A.vi, fol. 109rhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/blog-complaints5.jpgBlog.Complaints5© Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 9561, fol. 81v. https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/blog-complaints2.jpgBlog.Complaints2https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/blog-complaints3.jpgBlog.Complaints3© London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius B.v, fol. 28vhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/blog-complaints7.jpgBlog.Complaints7"God helpe minum handum" © London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius B.v, fol. 28v2018-08-04T20:57:08+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2016/04/08/benjamin-thorpe-the-man-who-translated-almost-all-old-english-texts/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/thorpeblog3.jpgThorpeBlog3Three editions of Thorpe's Beowulf; errors noted by Bolland in red squares.https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/thorpeblog2.jpgThorpeBlog2Errors in Thorpe's Beowulf edition in a letter by G.J.P.J. Bolland (Bolland Archive, UB Leiden)https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/thorpeblog1.jpgThorpeBlog1Eulogy for Elise C. Otté by Edmund Grosse in Athenaeum, 02 Jan. 1904 (source)2018-08-04T20:53:00+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2016/08/03/bolland-beowulf/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/bolandbeowulfblog12.jpgBolandBeowulfBlog1G. J. P. J. Bolland as young schoolmaster in Katwijk; G. J. P. J. Bolland as student in Jena, Germany; G. J. P. J. Bolland as professor of Philosophy at Leiden University (Bolland Archive, UB Leiden) https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/bollandbeowulfblog4.jpgBollandBeowulfBlog4Pages 10-11 of G. J. P. J. Bolland's A short chronological list of English literature (Bolland Archive, UB Leiden)https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/bollandbeowulfblog3.jpgBollandBeowulfBlog3Pages 2-3 from G. J. P. J. Bolland's 'Early English Literature' (Bolland Archive, UB Leiden)https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/bollandbeowulfblog2.jpgBollandBeowulfBlog2Annotations by G. J. P. J. Bolland in M. Heyne's edition of Beowulf (Bolland Archive, UB Leiden)2018-08-04T20:50:09+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2017/03/27/richard-morris/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/blog-morris2.jpgBlog.Morris2Richard Morris's edition of Legends of the Holy Rood, with an illustration of St. Cyriac by art professor Henry Philip Delamotte on the basis of the Vernon Manuscript - did he base Cyriac's facial features on Morris? Perhaps, there is no beard though!https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/blog-morris1.jpgBlog.Morris1Having failed to find a photograph of Richard Morris, here are two of his close associates: Frederick Furnivall and Walter Skeat. Judging by this circumstantial evidence, we may assume that Richard Morris had a beard.https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/blog-morris6.jpgBlog.Morris6Distraction in the margins of the Blickling Homilies. © Princeton, Princeton University Library, W. H. Scheide Collection, MS 71, ff. 21r, 22r.https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/blog-morris5.jpgBlog.Morris5https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/blog-morris4.jpgBlog.Morris4Letter by P. J. Cosijn to G. J. P. J. Bolland (BOLLAND ARCHIVE, UB LEIDEN)2023-09-29T23:11:54+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2017/08/14/james-platt-jr/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/blog-platt7.jpgBlog.Platt7https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/blog-platt6.jpgBlog.Platt6James Platt Jr (18-1910) and James Murray (1837-1915)https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/blog-platt5.jpgBlog.Platt5https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/blog-platt4.jpgBlog.Platt4Platt, William. James Platt the Younger: A Study in the Personality of a Great Scholar. London: Simpkin Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd., 192?. https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/blog-platt3.jpgBlog.Platt3Letter by Henry Sweet to Pieter Jacob Cosijn (03-02-1883) © Leiden University Library, Special Collectionshttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/blog-platt2.jpgBlog.Platt2List of missing words (Platt 1882-1884, 241-242)https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/blog-platt1.pngBlog.Platt1Letter by James Platt Jr to Pieter Jacob Cosijn (6-12-1882) © Leiden University Library, Special Collections 2018-08-04T20:45:03+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2017/02/06/notmyconqueror/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/blog-gytha4.jpgblog-gytha4Group of women in the Old English Hexateuch - Pussyhats added © The British Library, Cotton Claudius B.iv, fol. 92rhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/gytha-blog.gifgytha-blog"I fart in your general direction!" Monty Python quote may be based on Siege of Exeter in 1068. https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/blog-gytha3.jpgblog-gytha3Battle of Stamford Bridge by Matthew Paris. © Cambridge University Library, Ee.3.59, fol. 32vhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/blog-gytha2.jpgblog-gytha2Hemming's Cartulary. © The British Library, Cotton Tiberius A.xiii, fol. 129v https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/blog-gytha1.jpgblog-gytha1Entry for 1067, manuscript D of The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle © The British Library, Cotton Tiberius B.iv, fols. 81v-82r 2018-08-04T20:40:13+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2016/07/20/boniface-in-dorestad/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/blog-boniface51.jpgBlog.Boniface5Some highlights of the exhibition. Top left: miniscule relic of Boniface; Top middle: Boniface on a delftware plate; Right: Flyer for Boniface beer; Bottom left: Boniface USB stickhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/blog-boniface6.jpgBlog.Boniface6Gold tremissis minted in Dorestad, c. 600-675. Inscriptions: DORESTATE; RIMOALDUS M. Found Cawood, North Yorkshire, in 2007 (source: PAS Unique ID SWYOR-B502C5. Image used on a CC BY 2.0 licence from © The Portable Antiquities Scheme.)https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/blog-boniface5.jpgBlog.Boniface5Some highlights of the exhibition. Top left: miniscule relic of Boniface; Top middle: Boniface on a delftware plate; Right: Boniface gin; Bottom left: Boniface USB stickhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/blog-boniface4.jpgBlog.Boniface4Top left: Kentish sceat found in Dorestad (source); Bottom left: Kentish sceat found in Barnham, Kent (source: PAS Unique ID KENT-EAF0C8. Image used on a CC BY 2.0 licence from © The Portable Antiquities Scheme. I mirrored one side of the coin to match the Dorestad coin); Right: Poster for "Boniface in Dorestad 716-2016" exhibition at Museum Dorestadhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/blog-boniface2.jpgBlog.Boniface2https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/blog-boniface1.jpgBlog.Boniface12018-08-04T20:34:11+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2017/04/10/heads-on-sticks/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/impalementblog4.jpgImpalementBlog4Raven pecking at an impaled head on Noah's ark. © The British Library, Cotton Claudius B.iv, fol. 15rhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/impalementblog4a.jpgImpalementBlog4aBeowulf, ll. © The British Library, Cotton Vitelius A.xv, ff. 168v-169rhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/impalementblog3.jpgImpalementBlog3https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/impalementblog2.jpgImpalementBlog2Left: Illustrated initial showing the martyrdom of Saint Oswald © Darmstadt, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, HS 2766, 44r. Right: Head Reliquary of St. Oswald © Hildesheim Cathedralhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/impalementblog1.jpgImpalementBlog1Impaled heads in The Last Kingdom © BBChttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/impalementblog5.jpgImpalementBlog5Decapitation and impalement scene in the margin of an early-fourteenth century manuscript of the Decretals of Gregory IX. © The British Library, Royal MS 10 E IV, 208r2018-08-04T20:31:17+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2015/12/17/anglo-saxon-props/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/blogprops4.jpgBlogProps4Left: Gaius and a diagram on his wall in Merlin © BBC. Right: Byrhtferth's diagram © Oxford, St John's College, MS 17https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/blogprops3.jpgBlogProps3Top: Franks Casket © Trustees of the British Museum (source). Bottom: Tapestry in Ivanhoe © MGMhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/blogprops5.jpgBlogProps5Left: Helmet in the back of Arthur's room in Merlin © BBC. Right: Replica of Sutton Hoo helmet © Trustees of British Museum.https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/blogprops2.jpgBlogProps2Left: Alfred's sceptre in The Last Kingdom © BBC. Right: Sutton Hoo whetstone/sceptre © Trustees of the British Museum (source) 2018-08-04T20:30:27+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2017/04/24/walking-dead/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/blog-as-eadgyth2.jpgBlog.AS.Eadgyth2In episode 5 of the second series of The Last Kingdom, Uhtred of Bebbanburg meets Bjorn the dead man who rises from his grave. © BBC (source)https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/blog-as-eadgyth.jpgBlog.AS.Eadgythhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/blog-as-eadgyth1.jpgBlog.AS.Eadgyth1The Three Living and the Three Dead © The British Library, Arundel MS 83, f. 127v2018-08-04T16:05:52+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2017/06/26/kings-and-candlesticks/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/candleblog5.jpgCandleblog5Alfred: What do you think of my candles? Uhtred: I find them to be more effective at night. Alfred: I have missed your childish insolence. I'm trying to measure the passing of time. 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J. P. J. Bolland as a student in Jena in 1880 (Bolland Archive at UB Leiden)2018-04-06T18:38:53+00:00weekly0.6https://thijsporck.com/research-and-publications/cosijn/scholarly-correspondence/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/postercosijnproject.jpgPosterCosijnProject2017-10-28T15:03:52+00:00weekly0.6https://thijsporck.com/research-and-publications/book-chapters/2017-06-08T13:37:29+00:00weekly0.6https://thijsporck.com/2017/06/05/horses/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/blog-mimehorse2.jpgBlog.MiMEHorse2Hasufel, Arod and Shadowfax (source)https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/blog-mimehorse0.jpgBlog.MiMEHorse0https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/blog-mimehorse1.jpgBlog.MiMEHorse1https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/blog-mimehorse4.jpgBlog.MiMEHorse42017-06-08T13:35:37+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2017/05/29/eilmer-the-flying-monk/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/blogeilmer.jpgBlogEilmerhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/blog-dunstansclassbook.jpgBlog.DunstansClassbookOvid's Ars amatoria in the classbook of St Dunstan © Oxford, Bodleian Library, Auct. F. 4. 32, fol. 37v https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/blog-aelfricfalsisdiis.jpgBlog.AelfricFalsisDiis© Cambridge, University Library, Ii. 1. 33, fol. 178r2017-06-02T07:59:11+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2017/05/08/grendel-in-beowulf-movies/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/beowulfblog7.jpgBeowulfBlog7All movie Grendels combinedhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/beowulfblog6.jpgBeowulfBlog6Grendel's mother licking Hrothgar's nose in Beowulf (1999)https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/beowulfblog5.jpgBeowulfBlog5Poor, polite Grendel and nasty Danes in Grendel, Grendel, Grendel (1981)https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/beowulfblog4.jpgBeowulfBlog4Three more movie Grendelshttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/beowulfblog2.jpgBeowulfBlog2Three movie 'Grendels'https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/beowulfblog1.jpgBeowulfBlog1We saw two monsters... © The British Library, Cotton Vitellius A.XV, fol. 162v-163r2017-08-28T17:22:37+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2015/11/26/what-if-shakespeare-did-write-old-english/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/oememeten.jpgoememetenAn Old English meme!2017-04-23T19:02:09+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2017/04/17/cultural-blending/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/blog-hairstyles3.jpgBlog.Hairstyles3https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/blog-hairstyles2.jpgBlog.Hairstyles2Excerpt from Alcuin's letter to Æthelred of Northumbria. The Annotation may be by the hand of Archbishop Wulfstan of York (d. 1023) who owned this particular manuscript. © The British Library, Cotton Vespasian A.xiv, fol. 117rhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/blog-hairstyles1.jpgBlog.Hairstyles1The choirs of angels, prophets and the Apostles showing a range of hairstyles in the 9th-century Athelstan Psalter. © The British Library, Cotton Galba A.xviii, fol. 2v.https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/blog-culturalblending5.jpgBlog.CulturalBlending5Two products of Anglo-Scandinavian 'cultural blending': Saxon-born, Danish-bred Uhtred from The Last Kingdom © BBC (source); and Anglo-Saxon-monk-turned-Viking Athelstan from Vikings © History Channel (source)2017-04-20T19:12:04+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/research-and-publications/reviews-2/2017-04-05T16:46:23+00:00weekly0.6https://thijsporck.com/2017/04/03/words-and-worldviews/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/word-cloud-pig-no-repeat.pngWord Cloud pig no repeatA PIGGY MADE OF PORK WORDS IN OLD ENGLISH. CREATED WITH TAGUL.COMhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/blog-waw5.jpgBlog.WaW5A piggy made of pork words in Old English. Created with tagul.comhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/blog-waw4.jpgBlog.WaW4Beard made out of Old English words for 'old'. Created with tagul.comhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/blog-waw3.jpgBlog.WaW3https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/blog-waw2.jpgBlog.WaW2Old English finger-hand. Creaed with tagul.comhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/blog-waw1.jpgBlog.WaW1A Sutton Hoo helmet made of Old English words. Created with tagul.com2019-11-17T11:35:10+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2017/03/13/pugs-guide-to-medieval-holland/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/blog-pugbrecamedievaldogs.jpgBlog.PugBRECAMedievalDogshttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/blog-pugbrecaadelbertus.jpgBlog.PugBRECAADELBERTUShttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/blog-puginmedievalplaces4.jpgBlog.PugInMedievalPlaces4https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/oee-puginmedievalplaces1.jpgOEE.PugInMedievalPlaces1https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/blog-puginmedievalplaces3.jpgBlog.PugInMedievalPlaces3Left: The murder of Count Floris V of Holland. Right: Breca the pug at Muidenberghttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/oee-puginmedievalplaces2.jpgOEE.PugInMedievalPlaces2Breca the pughttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/blog-puginmedievalplaces6.jpgBlog.PugInMedievalPlaces6Breca the pug at Stompe Toren, Spaarnwoude.https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/blog-puginmedievalplaces8.jpgblog-puginmedievalplaces8Breca the pug at the memorial grave of Floris I of Holland, in the Abbey church of Egmondhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/blog-puginmedievalplaces7.jpgblog-puginmedievalplaces7https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/blog-puginmedievalplaces5.jpgblog-puginmedievalplaces5Left: Breca the pug at the Willibrordwell in Heiloo; Right: Breca the pug at the Runxput in Heiloo2019-10-12T08:19:00+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2017/03/06/paris-psalter/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/blog-parispsalter-lovers.jpgblog-parispsalter-lovershttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/blog-parispsalter-bootje.jpgblog-parispsalter-bootjehttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/blog-parispsalter16-murderers-ouch.jpgblog-parispsalter16-murderers-ouchhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/blog-parispsalter13-you-also-hate-evildoers.jpgblog-parispsalter13-you-also-hate-evildoersIllustration of Psalm 5:7 © Paris, BnF, lat. 8824, ff. 3v-4rhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/blog-parispsalter12-you-hate-evildoers.jpgblog-parispsalter12-you-hate-evildoersIllustration of Psalm 5:7 © Paris, BnF, lat. 8824, fol. 3vhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/blog-parispsalter16-he-shall-shoot-his-fiery-arrows.jpgblog-parispsalter16-he-shall-shoot-his-fiery-arrowsIllustration of Psalm 7:3 © Paris, BnF, lat. 8824, fol. 6rhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/blog-parispsalter14-a-lion-got-my-soul-harleypsalter.jpgblog-parispsalter14-a-lion-got-my-soul-harleypsalterLeft: © Paris, BnF, lat. 8824, fol. 5r; Right: © The British Library, Harley 604, fol. 4r https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/blog-parispsalter14-a-lion-got-my-soul.jpgblog-parispsalter14-a-lion-got-my-soulIllustration of Psalm 7:3 © Paris, BnF, lat. 8824, fol. 5rhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/blog-parispsalter-beard-scissors.jpgblog-parispsalter-beard-scissorshttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/blog-parispsalter11-evilwillers-not-allowed-before-your-eyes1.jpgblog-parispsalter11-evilwillers-not-allowed-before-your-eyesIllustration of Psalm 5:5-6 © Paris, BnF, lat. 8824, fol. 2v2019-10-17T09:18:31+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2017/02/27/boars/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/blog-boar00.jpgblog-boar00Boars in Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KB, KA 16, Folio 45v; Morgan Library, MS M.81, Folio 36v; Museum Meermanno, MMW, 10 B 25, Folio 20r (source)https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/blog-boarsdainironfoot.jpgblog-boarsdainironfootDain Ironfoot riding a boar in The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armieshttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/blog-boars11.jpgblog-boars11Richard III (d. 1485) and his son Edward standing on boars; his wife Anne Neville standing on a polar bear? © British Library, Add MS 48976https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/blog-boars46.jpgblog-boars46Left: Torslunda helmet-plate; Right: Wollaston helmet in Royal Armouries, Leedshttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/blog-boar4.jpgblog-boar4Sutton Hoo Helmet © The British Museum (source)https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/blog-boars41.jpgblog-boars4https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/blog-boars1.jpgblog-boars1"It is only a flesh wound" [and a boar's head on his chest] https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/blog-boars4.jpgblog-boars4Detail of a miniature of a nobleman spearing a snared boar, from the calendar for November. © The British Library, Egerton 1146, f. 12v https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/blog-boars5.jpgblog-boars5Miniature of Adonis being killed by a wild boar. © The British Library, Harley 4431, f. 124vhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/blog-boars3.jpgblog-boars3Monkey pouring water on a man spearing a boar © The British Library, Stowe 17, f. 89r 2020-11-17T06:13:45+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2017/01/30/beheaded-himself/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/blog-offwithmyhead3.jpgblog-offwithmyhead3https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/blog-offwithmyhead2.jpgblog-offwithmyhead2https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/blog-offwithmyhead1.jpgblog-offwithmyhead12020-02-02T14:28:51+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2015/12/31/an-anglo-saxon-anecdote-how-hengest-was-led-by-the-nose/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/blog-edol.jpgBlog.EdolEldol leads Hengest by the nose.2017-01-20T10:50:43+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2017/01/16/judith/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/blog-judithfinal.jpgblog-judithfinalhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/blog-judith5b.jpgblog-judith5bhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/blog-judith5.jpgblog-judith5"Heofermus's men awkwardly try to wake him up. The fact he is dead has so far flown over their heads (haha)." - Note the warrior holding a 'war-leek' (and Old Norse kenning for 'sword'). https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/blog-judith7b.jpgblog-judith7bhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/blog-judith10a.jpgblog-judith10ahttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/blog-judith11a.jpgblog-judith11ahttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/blog-judith9b.jpgblog-judith9bhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/blog-judith12.jpgblog-judith12Handmaiden and Judith putting 'dead Holofernes' in a bag.https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/blog-judith7.jpgblog-judith7A handmaiden looks on as Holofernes's head tumbles down.https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/blog-judith8.jpgblog-judith8No, his name was not "Hreofernoþ"2022-05-27T06:02:24+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2016/10/09/beowulf-vs-dragon/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/browulf.jpgbrowulfOffice art: Browulf and Swaglaf fight the dragonhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/blog-bd11.jpgblog-bd11https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/blog-bd10.jpgblog-bd10https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/blog-bd9.jpgblog-bd9https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/blog-bd5.jpgblog-bd5https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/blog-bd6.jpgblog-bd6https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/blog-bd81.jpgblog-bd8https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/blog-bd8.jpgblog-bd8https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/blog-bd13.jpgblog-bd13https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/blog-bd7.jpgblog-bd72017-01-13T15:04:53+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2017/01/09/how-to-cook-your-dragon/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/blog-bacon3-fouragesfourhumours.jpgblog-bacon3-fouragesfourhumoursThe Four Ages of Man and the Four Humours. With 'Sanguinus' (blood-man) as a young man top-right and 'Flgematicus' (phlegm-man) as an old man bottom-right. © The British Library, Egerton 2572, f. 51v https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/blog-bacon2-baconpresent.jpgblog-bacon2-baconpresentRoger Bacon presents is work on old age to a patron. © Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 211, f. 1r.https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/blog-bacon3-oldman.jpgblog-bacon3-oldmanOld man avoiding violent exercise in the margins of this glossed manuscript © The British Library, Burney 182, f. 3vhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/blog-bacon5-dragon.jpgblog-bacon5-dragonDragon with the head of an old man. © The British Library, Harley 1340, f. 8 https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/blog-bacon1-dragon.jpgblog-bacon1-dragonDragon in fifteenth-century Italian herbal. © The British Library, Sloane 4016, f. 38 2022-11-16T11:03:59+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2016/11/13/hobbits/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/hobbitgenealogy.jpghobbitgenealogyThe Anglian Collection © The British Library, Cotton Tiberius B. v., fol. 22r2016-11-21T11:58:31+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2016/09/20/battle-of-fulford/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/blog-fulford3.jpgblog-fulford3Vikings crossing the swamp dry-shodhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/blog-fulford2.jpgblog-fulford2Harald Hardrada and the fiery pitchforkshttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/blog-fulford1.jpgblog-fulford1Dreaming of witch-wives2016-09-21T14:26:06+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2016/08/26/battle-671/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/oee-battleofbirds.jpgOEE.BattleOfBirdsBirds Tapestry - inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry (see and compare for yourself)2016-09-05T13:10:47+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2016/02/15/bits-of-bede-or-why-bede-deserves-his-own-museum/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/bedegrylls.jpgBedeGryllsThe Venerable Bede [left] and Bear Grylls.https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/bede-ark.jpgBede.ArkBede and the Ark of Noah © The British Library, Cotton Claudius B iv, fol. 14rhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/bede-dogs.jpgBede.DogsBreca the pug (right) reads Kathleen Walker-Meikle's Medieval dogs (and finding Bede [left] not mentioned!).https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/bede-fingertalk.jpgBede.FingerTalkBede's Guide to counting to 99. Manuscript image adapted from Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 1449, fol. 118v (source)2017-05-25T21:54:26+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2016/08/18/anglo-saxon-chairs/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/aschairs42.jpgASChairs4William the Conqueror and Edward the Confessor on the Bayeux Tapestryhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/aschairs41.jpgASChairs4Left: William the Conqueror and Edward the Confessor on the Bayeux Tapestry; Right: Lot on decorated chair © BL, Cotton Claudius B IV, 23vhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/aschairs1a.jpgASCHairs1aFoldable throne of Dagobert I (source)https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/aschairs5.jpgASChairs5Drinking-bench © BL, Cotton Claudius https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/aschairs4.jpgASChairs4Lot and Abra(ha)m on decorated chairs © BL, Cotton Claudius B IV, 28r; Right: King Edward the Confessor on the Bayeux Tapestry (source)https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/aschairs3.jpgASChairs3Frith-stools of Beverley Minster (left; source) and Hexham Abbey (source)https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/aschairs2.jpgASChairs2Portrait of prophet Ezra in the Codex Amiatinus ©... (source)https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/aschairs1.jpgASChairs1Left: Reconstruction of folding stool found in Prittlewell burial chamber; Right: Decorated folding chairs in the Old English Hexateuch © British Library, Cotton Claudius B IV, 43v, 68v2017-03-28T10:33:12+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2016/07/24/medieval-pokedex/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/hitmonleeas.jpgHitmonleeAS©The British Libraryhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/pokedexblog0.jpgPokedexBlog0Left: ©The British Library, ; Middle: Jigglypuff (source); RIght: ©The British Library, https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/pokedexblog7.jpgPokedexBlog7©The British Library, https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/pokedexblog9.jpgPokedexBlog9Left: Onix (source) Right: ©The British Library, https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/pokedexblog8.jpgPokedexBlog8Left: Lopunny ; Right: ©The British Library, https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/pokedexblog6.jpgPokedexBlog6Left: Ho-Oh (source) Right: ©The British Library, https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/pokedexblog5.jpgPokedexBlog5Left: ©The British Library, ; Middle: Kricketune (source); Right: ©The British Library, https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/pokedexblog2.jpgPokedexBlog2Left: Terlard (source) ; Right: ©The British Library, https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/pokedexblog1.jpgPokedexBlog1Left: ©The British Library, ; Middle: Torchic (source); Right: ©The British Library, 2016-07-27T19:04:04+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2016/07/02/beer-and-bees/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/blogdote.jpgBlogDote2016-07-02T15:30:42+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2016/06/19/fathers/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/fathersnakedness4.jpgFathersNakedness4https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/fathersnakedness3.jpgFathersNakedness3https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/fathersnakedness2b.jpgFathersNakedness2bhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/fathersnakedness2.jpgFathersNakedness2https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/fathersnakedness1.jpgFathersNakedness12016-06-21T06:43:01+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2016/06/10/battle-of-maldon-a-student-doodle-edition/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/bomdoodle13.jpgBomDoodle13https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/bomdoodle11.jpgBomDoodle11https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/bomdoodle10.jpgBomDoodle10https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/bomdoodle9.jpgBomDoodle9https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/bomdoodle8.jpgBomDoodle8https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/bomdoodle12.jpgBomDoodle12https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/bomdoodle7.jpgBomDoodle7https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/bomdoodle6.jpgBomDoodle6https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/bomdoodle4.jpgBomDoodle4https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/bomdoodle3.jpgBomDoodle32016-06-13T13:09:49+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2016/01/21/an-anglo-saxon-anecdote-alleluia-the-anglo-saxon-boo/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/blog-anglosaxonboo.jpgBlog.AngloSaxonBoo2016-05-16T20:19:57+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2016/04/01/aragorn/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/aragornedward1.jpgAragornEdwardEdward the Confessor and Aragornhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/aragornalfred1.jpgAragornAlfredAlfred the Great and Aragornhttps://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/aragornoswald.jpgAragornOswaldAragorn and Oswald2017-09-28T01:59:49+00:00monthlyhttps://thijsporck.com/2015/12/24/the-medieval-in-middle-earth-rings-of-power/https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/blogrings2.jpgBlogRings2Beowulf, ll. 2345-7 © The British Library, Cotton Vitelius A. xv, f. 185r (source)https://thijsporck.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/blogrings.jpgBlogRingsLeft: the One Ring. 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