A first look at the Old English song lyrics in the soundtrack of The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (2024). Through its incorporation of Neo-Old English lyrics, the film draws connections with Tolkien's works, especially through references to Old English poetry.
Cultural contacts between early medieval England, Northern Africa and the Middle East
This blog post introduces four new knowledge clips about an interesting topic: cultural contacts between 'the East' and 'the West' in the Early Middle Ages!
‘You are truly the same’: The Varied Nature of Old English Glossed Psalters
An introduction to the fascinating world of Old English glossed Psalters!
A Digital Beowulf Thesaurus! Exploring the Epic in Evoke
The Beowulf Thesaurus is freely available and can offer unique new insights into the vocabulary of early medieval England's best-known epic.
Teaching Old English on YouTube
This blog post provides some behind-the-scenes information on the rationale and process behind my Old English grammar videos and also announces a new video!
The Familiar and the Foreign in Old Germanic Studies
Information about an Open Access special issue, published in 2017.
Cooked crow’s brains and other early medieval remedies for headaches from the Leiden Leechbook
The ninth-century manuscript fragment known as the Leiden Leechbook is a unique witness to medical practice in the early Middle Ages and the multilingual nature of the documents from this period.
Early Medieval Magical Medicine: An Anglo-Saxon Trivia Quiz
An Anglo-Saxon trivia quiz that will test (and/or increase) your knowledge about magical medicine in early medieval England!
Creepy Crawlies in Early Medieval England: Anglo-Saxon Medicine and Minibeasts
What roles do worms, spiders and earwigs play in early medieval medicine? And why should you throw a dungbeetle over your shoulder?
Grendel’s Mother: A Student Doodle Edition
For a bonus question on their exam, my students used their artistic talents to draw their own rendition of Grendel's mother from the Old English poem Beowulf.
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