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Dr Beverliey Braune
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Poetics, Literary criticism, Old Norse poetry, Historical Linguistics, English studies, Medieval & EM books. Historical Lacunae and Poetic Space (Oxford: Peter Lang Verlag, 2022) https://www.peterlang.com/document/1183611 #PeterLangOxford
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culinavetus.bsky.social
From Balthasar Staindl's 1547 cookbook, how to put various birds in pastries. It has eggs, lemons, onions, and bacon, what more could you want?

www.culina-vetus.de/2025/11/12/p...

#culinaryhistory #foodhistory #earlymodern #pastries
Frontispiece of the first (1547) edition of Balthasar Staindl's Künstlichs und nutzlichs Kochbuch held at the Bayrische Staatsbibliothek. The image shows a woodcut of a richly equipped and busy kitchen. The master cook is standing to the left of the large masonry hearth, tasting the contents of a large cookpot stood next to the fire while a cauldron is suspended above it. Two men in the background seem to be addressing him. In the right foreground, another man is cutting meat on a work surface set up atop a wooden trough on trestles. Carcasses and a large sausage are shown suspended on the wall in the background. Everything about this image - the size, the range of equipment, the exclusively male staff, the amounts of meat on display - signals wealth. This is the kind of kitchen you would expect to find in the house of a rich burgher or landed nobleman. The motif recurs in many German cookbooks of the fifteenth and sixteenth century.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
amberbaeden.bsky.social
Link to Dr Lethbridge's lecture: www.youtube.com/live/4qr4MoV...
November 12, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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fortrenn.bsky.social
Important new article re-evaluating the demographic transition from Pictish to Norse in Orkney. Material previously categorised as 'Norse' or 'Viking' is now shown to date to the earlier Pictish period (pre-800).
northernpicts.bsky.social NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 15d
A new consideration of the chronology of the key settlement of Buckquoy, Orkney - shows that the buildings here belong firmly in the Pictish tradition. This leads to a wider consideration of the timings and character of the Viking Age in the Northern Isles.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Buckquoy, Orkney: addressing the Pictish-Viking transition in northern Scotland | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Buckquoy, Orkney: addressing the Pictish-Viking transition in northern Scotland
www.cambridge.org
October 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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kristelzilmer.bsky.social
Now after the successful trip made by the Oseberg ship in September, it’s time for the Gokstad ship to move to its new spot within the Museum of the Viking Age. #VikingShips #Vikingtidsmuseet www.vikingtidsmuseet.no/english/relo...
Relocating the Gokstad Ship - Museum of the Viking Age
On 29 October, the Gokstad Ship is set to be relocated. It will move to its new home in the Museum of the Viking Age, where it can be preserved and showcased for future generations. Preparations for t...
www.vikingtidsmuseet.no
October 29, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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enniusredloeb.bsky.social
November isn't a good time for pigs in the medieval calendar.
#medievalcalendar
BL Lansdowne 383; the 'Shaftesbury Psalter'; 12th century; England; f.8r
October 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
amberbaeden.bsky.social
It's interesting how the images showing predicted paths and spread of hurricanes today resemble illustrations of the Caribbean deity commanding such weather chaos, Guabancex -- with a very vexed expression and arms outstretched at her sides.
¡Prepárate para el huracán!
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LIVE MAP: Track the path of Tropical Storm Melissa
The erratic storm was expected to drop copious rain on Jamaica and the southern regions of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. At least three people were killed in Haiti, and one person was killed and o...
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October 25, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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oewordhord.bsky.social
on-līhting, f.n: illumination, enlightening. (ON-lee’h-ting / ˈɔn-liːx-tɪŋ)
#OldEnglish #WOTD
October 13, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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norsemap.bsky.social
Our NorseMap website is now live! Go check it out: www.ucc.ie/en/norsemap
October 7, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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rebpaf.bsky.social
‼️Next year, the REBPAF Final Conference will be held in Dublin.‼️
We invite submissions of papers & posters; the deadline is 15 Dec 2025. We look forward to your contributions and to welcoming you to Ireland!📚
#REBPAF #MSCA #REBPAFConference #CfP #BookHistory
[See images for details & how to apply.]
July 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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onp.ku.dk
eintómi (adj.): 1 cits, e.g. ?exclusively (engaged in sth.), ?not doing anything (other than that), ?with ample time (for sth.) ‘villtu, at ek gæta vitans, siþan ek gerir ecki annat, ok ma ek vel sitia eintomi vid’ (Orkn in GKS 1005 fol) onp.ku.dk/o17205 #OldNorse
September 17, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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malkydungeon.bsky.social
Come check out my drawing of Steinunn Refsdóttir composing her poem against Þangbrandr

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Steinunn Refsdóttir | Simon Dickie
Get more from Simon Dickie on Patreon
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September 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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thecelticist.bsky.social
Tonicha Upham, Death Rituals:
The Rūs and 'Vikings' in Arabic and Persian, is available #OpenAccess until 2 October.

#MedievalSky

www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Death Rituals
Cambridge Core - Global History - Death Rituals
www.cambridge.org
September 19, 2025 at 9:41 PM
amberbaeden.bsky.social
www.nrk.no/kultur/flytt...
Flyttar Osebergskipet for første gong på 100 år
Noreg sitt mest kjende vikingskip er no løfta frå det gamle til det nye Vikingtidsmuseet. Prosessen kan koste rundt 500 millionar kroner.
www.nrk.no
September 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM
amberbaeden.bsky.social
Whoa! This is so exciting!
kristelzilmer.bsky.social Kristel Zilmer @kristelzilmer.bsky.social · Sep 10
Such a relief that the ship is now safely on its spot. Impressive work by colleagues at @kult-hist-museum.bsky.social and others! #Oseberg #MuseumoftheVikingAge
kristelzilmer.bsky.social Kristel Zilmer @kristelzilmer.bsky.social · Sep 10
Check out the designated spot for the ship in the new museum building! Slowly-slowly the Oseberg ship is approaching its final destination. www.nrk.no/kultur/flytt...
September 11, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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jennifermills.net.au
The loss of Meanjin is devastating news for Australian writers and readers. Always meant so much to see my work there. Some of my best experiences of being edited. An entirely avoidable disaster.
A stack of Meanjin issues that contain my fiction and non-fiction
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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ceraejournal.bsky.social
Goooood morning! There's still quite a bit of (heh) time to submit an abstract for our sessions at the 2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social. We very much encourage post/graduate students to apply. Details and PDF CFP at the link:

ceraejournal.com/2025/09/02/c...

#medievalsky #earlymodernsky #historysky
CALL FOR PAPERS: Ceræ at IMC 2026
CERÆ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies invites submissions for hybrid panels at the Leeds International Medieval Conference 2026 (July 6-9) on the theme of Premodern Tim…
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September 2, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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drbibliomane.bsky.social
A new book of poems by Susan Howe is an event, & I could not be more excited about this one.
(The cover image is a woodcut from The New England Primer --representing the letter T via "young Timothy learnt sin to fly." Emily Dickinson clipped it out & pasted it into a letter to Susan Gilbert.)
Book cover of Susan Howe's brand new _Penitential Cries_. We see the browned paper of the New England primer image: Timothy being talked by a devil with a forked tale. We also see the bleed through of the previous page: "Noah did view/ The old world and new." Below Susan Howe's name, we see a word in Dickinson's handwriting--"position".
August 30, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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nikgunn.bsky.social
I'm relaunching my website, Set Yet Speaking, which will host my translations of medieval literature.

In this first post, I discuss why I'm giving this another go, why translation matters, and how a short extract from Beowulf inspired the name of the site.

nikolasgunn.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/w...
Welcome to Set Yet Speaking (plus a translation of Beowulf lines 1687-98a)
Hello everyone. Welcome back to Set Yet Speaking. It’s been a while. The last time I properly updated this website, I was still lecturing. Things have changed a bit since then. I realised an …
nikolasgunn.wordpress.com
August 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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asls.org.uk
Rǫgnvaldr Kali Kolsson (c1100–1158), Earl of Orkney (& – slightly surprisingly – saint), died #OTD, 20 August. He was a fine poet, & Ian Crockatt has translated many of Rǫgnvaldr’s poems; this is from CRIMSONING THE EAGLE’S CLAW (Arc, 2014)
#MedievalSky
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He laments his wife’s illness, seeks comfort in shaping words Akr verðk opt fyr sjúkri eyfitja þó sitja – rjð es mér in mæra menbrik – Njǫrun síka; heiðis fylgjask hauðri (hauk tínik svá) mínu, (setrs leitandi sútar slœgr á hverju dœgri). I brood at her bedside – I've brought lace, necklaces, bone combs – who lies, limbs and lips feverish – wishing back our glad hours hawking low-sled water-meadows. I shape grave words – heart-deep, honed, brief – to imprison grief.
August 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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jonasza4.bsky.social
But wait, there's more!
Here is another Call for Papers for @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026, this time together with my friend Adrián Rodríguez Avila. We invite papers on 'The Reckoning of Time in Medieval Scandinavia'.
Please share both these calls freely!

#medievalsky #imc2026 #oldnorse
International Medieval Congress University of Leeds, 6–9 July 2026 Call for Papers The Reckoning of Time in Medieval Scandinavia Time is at the heart of medieval learning. Some of the earliest attested manuscripts from medieval Scandinavia are Easter tables, historical writing went on to shape the composition of vernacular prose, and eschatologies both pagan and Christian guided the interpretation of the present. For this strand, we invite 20-minute papers on any of the topics below and beyond. We especially encourage creativity and diverse perspectives. Computus, Easter tables, and related manuscripts Concepts of history Time and memory Notions of periodisation Cosmologies and the rhythm of creation Eschatological thought Please submit abstracts of approximately 250 words and a short bio including name, pronouns, and affiliations to Adrián Rodríguez Avila (air27@cam.ac.uk) and Jonas Zeit-Altpeter (zeitaltpeter@uni-bonn.de) by the 19th of September.
August 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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culinavetus.bsky.social
Another two sauces for fish from Balthasar Staindl's 1547 cookbook. One is traditional, the other may well be the oldest recorded German recipe using lemons.

www.culina-vetus.de/2025/08/13/f...

#culinaryhistory #foodhistory #earlymodern #Renaissance #medievalsky
Frontispiece of the first (1547) edition of Balthasar Staindl's Künstlichs und nutzlichs Kochbuch held at the Bayrische Staatsbibliothek. The image shows a woodcut of a richly equipped and busy kitchen. The master cook is standing to the left of the large masonry hearth, tasting the contents of a large cookpot stood next to the fire while a cauldron is suspended above it. Two men in the background seem to be addressing him. In the right foreground, another man is cutting meat on a work surface set up atop a wooden trough on trestles. Carcasses and a large sausage are shown suspended on the wall in the background. Everything about this image - the size, the range of equipment, the exclusively male staff, the amounts of meat on display - signals wealth. This is the kind of kitchen you would expect to find in the house of a rich burgher or landed nobleman. The motif recurs in many German cookbooks of the fifteenth and sixteenth century.
August 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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hornesupremacy.bsky.social
A quick bit of video editing for Alistair Carty / Clamour of Rooks and the @govanstones.bsky.social!
govanstones.bsky.social The Govan Stones @govanstones.bsky.social · Aug 9
🎼 Hear Clamour of Rooks LIVE in Govan Old today, surrounded by the Viking-Age treasures of the Govan Stones!
August 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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bodiesandbeing.bsky.social
There is still time to register! Informal conversation with other body history nerds. No prep needed.

#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory
August 9, 2025 at 12:21 AM