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Tag: Old English

1 Oct 20221 Oct 2022 thijsporck Manuscripts

‘You are truly the same’: The Varied Nature of Old English Glossed Psalters

An introduction to the fascinating world of Old English glossed Psalters!

12 Jan 202213 Jan 2022 thijsporck Beowulf, Old English

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.

25 Jun 202025 Jun 2020 thijsporck Old English

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!

26 May 202027 May 2020 thijsporck Publications

The Familiar and the Foreign in Old Germanic Studies

Information about an Open Access special issue, published in 2017.

6 Aug 20186 Aug 2018 thijsporck Leiden Leechbook, Manuscripts, Medieval medicine

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.

26 Mar 20185 Aug 2018 thijsporck BL, Cotton Vitellius C.iii, BL, Royal 12 D XVII, Brussels, Bibliothéque royale, 8558-63, Medieval medicine

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!

11 Mar 20185 Aug 2018 thijsporck Animals, BL, Cotton Vitellius C.iii, BL, Royal 12 D XVII, Leiden Glossary, Medieval medicine

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?

29 Jan 20185 Aug 2018 thijsporck Beowulf, Monsters, Student Doodle Editions

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.

15 Jan 20185 Aug 2018 thijsporck Exeter Book, Old English poetry, Widsith

A Burgundian king in an Old English poem: The Germanic past in Widsith

What is a fifth-century Burgundian king doing in an Anglo-Saxon poem? Learn more about Gundahari (d. 437)

30 Oct 20175 Aug 2018 thijsporck BL, Cotton Tiberius A.iii, BL, Royal 5 E XI, Lambeth Psalter, Lindisfarne Gospels, Manuscripts, Old English, Vespasian Psalter

Reading between the lines in early medieval England: Old English interlinear glosses

Old English between the lines! Find out more about dot glosses, paving letters and the mysterious 'scratched glosses'.

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