Peculiar Anglo-Saxon beheadings: Read more about heads that trip up blind people, keep shouting and get stolen by Vikings.
A medieval manuscript ransomed from Vikings: The Stockholm Codex Aureus
A medieval book that was looted by Vikings! Learn more about one of the most beautiful medieval manuscripts: The Stockholm Codex Aureus.
The Old English Judith: A Student Doodle Edition
For a bonus point on the exam, I asked my students to draw a scene from the Old English Judith. The results are amazing!
Anglo-Saxon bynames: Old English nicknames from the Domesday Book
From Humphrey 'Golden-bollocks' to Alwy 'Beetle-beard' - this blog post deals with the remarkable bynames found for individuals mentioned in the Domesday Book.
The Medieval in Middle-earth: The Anglo-Saxon Habits of Hobbits
The Anglo-Saxon habits of Tolkien's hobbits! There is more medieval to these halflings than meets the eye...
Beowulf vs the Dragon: A Student Doodle Edition
My students' artistic renditions of Beowulf fighting the dragon document how well (or how badly) my students remembered the Old English poem.
Anglo-Saxon apps: Old English on your smartphone
Old English dictionaries, parsing games and a full-fledged study guide for beginners. Anglo-Saxon smartphone apps reviewed!
An Anglo-Saxon Anecdote: The Battle of the Birds, 671
In the year 671, a fight broke out among English and foreign birds; the English birds triumphed, or did they?
“A conspicuous specimen of Anglosaxon poetry”: A student summary of Beowulf from 1880
One of the earliest student summaries of Beowulf survives in the drafts of a work by Dutch schoolmaster G. J. P. J. Bolland (1852-1922).
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.
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