Ambra Ventura
@ambraav.bsky.social
MA student at the University of Bergen ~ Milan Linguist turned Old Norse Philologist ~ Gender, Ethnicity, Law and Medievalism in Old Norse ~ she/her 🏳️🌈
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As long as there have been children, there have been toys. As it's the #LateLateToyShow we thought we'd share some of our favourite toys in the @nmireland.bsky.social
Many toys through history copy adult life, like this wonderful toy boat and sword from Viking Dublin
#archaeology #SpéirGhorm
Many toys through history copy adult life, like this wonderful toy boat and sword from Viking Dublin
#archaeology #SpéirGhorm
December 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
As long as there have been children, there have been toys. As it's the #LateLateToyShow we thought we'd share some of our favourite toys in the @nmireland.bsky.social
Many toys through history copy adult life, like this wonderful toy boat and sword from Viking Dublin
#archaeology #SpéirGhorm
Many toys through history copy adult life, like this wonderful toy boat and sword from Viking Dublin
#archaeology #SpéirGhorm
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How to Insult Like a Medieval Monk www.medievalists.net/2025/12/insu... #medieval
How to Insult Like a Medieval Monk - Medievalists.net
Learn how medieval monks at Cluny waged battles with words, using biting poetry, classical references, and cutting invective to uphold their spiritual legacy.
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December 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
How to Insult Like a Medieval Monk www.medievalists.net/2025/12/insu... #medieval
Little late in the day, but I just found out that my article on Wayward Sisters has come out in the latest issue of Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia! It feels poetic that an article based on my previous MA is coming out as I am about to finish the second one 🔥
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November 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Little late in the day, but I just found out that my article on Wayward Sisters has come out in the latest issue of Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia! It feels poetic that an article based on my previous MA is coming out as I am about to finish the second one 🔥
pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/fs...
pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/fs...
These words found me again as I struggle to finish writing my thesis. I know all the words I want to write, and yet... My brain, drowning in the uncertainty of what lies ahead, has decided that it is more comfortable being stuck in 'the known'. Just one of the many ways Rebecca's words hit home.
My blog post with the ADAM network has now been published. It's about precarity, the future of small subjects, and communal approaches to academic work. I hope it will resonate with some. #IchBinHanna #KleineFaecher #SkandiRetten
difficultmedieval.com/2025/10/23/h...
difficultmedieval.com/2025/10/23/h...
Hard Times and Trial Approaches: Old Norse-Icelandic Studies Between Precarity and the Future
Dr Rebecca Merkelbach reflects on her keynote speech at the most recent Saga Conference. Held every three years, Saga Con is the most important meeting of Old Norse scholars, bringing together acad…
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October 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
These words found me again as I struggle to finish writing my thesis. I know all the words I want to write, and yet... My brain, drowning in the uncertainty of what lies ahead, has decided that it is more comfortable being stuck in 'the known'. Just one of the many ways Rebecca's words hit home.
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🎆 LAUNCH 🎆
The team of the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project have the pleasure of launching the revised & updated
𝗢𝗴𝗵𝗮𝗺 𝗶𝗻 𝟯𝗗 database
Where: Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie
When: 12 Sept 2025, 15:30
@maynoothuniversity.ie @uofglasgow.bsky.social in collaboration with @scs-dias.bsky.social @dias.ie
The team of the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project have the pleasure of launching the revised & updated
𝗢𝗴𝗵𝗮𝗺 𝗶𝗻 𝟯𝗗 database
Where: Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie
When: 12 Sept 2025, 15:30
@maynoothuniversity.ie @uofglasgow.bsky.social in collaboration with @scs-dias.bsky.social @dias.ie
August 28, 2025 at 10:08 AM
🎆 LAUNCH 🎆
The team of the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project have the pleasure of launching the revised & updated
𝗢𝗴𝗵𝗮𝗺 𝗶𝗻 𝟯𝗗 database
Where: Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie
When: 12 Sept 2025, 15:30
@maynoothuniversity.ie @uofglasgow.bsky.social in collaboration with @scs-dias.bsky.social @dias.ie
The team of the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project have the pleasure of launching the revised & updated
𝗢𝗴𝗵𝗮𝗺 𝗶𝗻 𝟯𝗗 database
Where: Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie
When: 12 Sept 2025, 15:30
@maynoothuniversity.ie @uofglasgow.bsky.social in collaboration with @scs-dias.bsky.social @dias.ie
"I need coffee" I say, as I walk towards the coffee-maker with neither my mug nor my coffee...
August 16, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"I need coffee" I say, as I walk towards the coffee-maker with neither my mug nor my coffee...
As I sit and try to make sense of the edits and additions penciled in on the original 1930s working copy of the nynorsk dictionary just so I can code them into the digitised version, I am struck by a beautiful thought. I am a modern day scribe! #digitalhumanities
August 16, 2025 at 10:19 AM
As I sit and try to make sense of the edits and additions penciled in on the original 1930s working copy of the nynorsk dictionary just so I can code them into the digitised version, I am struck by a beautiful thought. I am a modern day scribe! #digitalhumanities
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10 Medieval Curses to Protect Your Books From Thieves www.medievalists.net/2023/08/medi... #curses
10 Medieval Curses to Protect Your Books From Thieves - Medievalists.net
If anyone take away this book, let him die the death; let him be fried in a pan; let the falling sickness and fever seize him; let him be broken on the wheel, and hanged. Amen.
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August 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM
10 Medieval Curses to Protect Your Books From Thieves www.medievalists.net/2023/08/medi... #curses
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I have taken
the resources
that were in
the budget
and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education
Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities
the resources
that were in
the budget
and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education
Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities
January 16, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I have taken
the resources
that were in
the budget
and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education
Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities
the resources
that were in
the budget
and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education
Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities
The connection only exists in my brain, as 'peto' comes from the Latin 'peditum', but now we are all left with the mental image of a disgruntled Roman who somehow made it to South America and thinks tobacco smells like farts. No need to thank me! #lexicography #etymology
August 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
The connection only exists in my brain, as 'peto' comes from the Latin 'peditum', but now we are all left with the mental image of a disgruntled Roman who somehow made it to South America and thinks tobacco smells like farts. No need to thank me! #lexicography #etymology
Now comes the part where my Italianness (?) and inner child are tickled: reading 'petun' immediately brought me to 'peto', an Italian noun for 'fart' #lexicography #etymology
August 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Now comes the part where my Italianness (?) and inner child are tickled: reading 'petun' immediately brought me to 'peto', an Italian noun for 'fart' #lexicography #etymology
Come to find out, petun/petum came into Norwegian through English < French < Tupi-Guaraní. A loanword with a journey as long as the product it refers to. #lexicography #etymology
August 13, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Come to find out, petun/petum came into Norwegian through English < French < Tupi-Guaraní. A loanword with a journey as long as the product it refers to. #lexicography #etymology
(notice also how spelling changes, sometimes it's petun and others it's petum in the sources I have) #lexicography #etymology
August 13, 2025 at 8:53 AM
(notice also how spelling changes, sometimes it's petun and others it's petum in the sources I have) #lexicography #etymology
Was working on a card for 'bispetobakk', a type of tobacco used by the bishop. A nice little note saying to look up 'petun' led me to this source card, so rabbithole it is. #lexicography #etymology
August 13, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Was working on a card for 'bispetobakk', a type of tobacco used by the bishop. A nice little note saying to look up 'petun' led me to this source card, so rabbithole it is. #lexicography #etymology
Back in the dictionary office digitising dialect and source cards and I am once again struck by a (non-existing) linguistic connection, so this is OUR problem now. #lexicography #etymology
August 13, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Back in the dictionary office digitising dialect and source cards and I am once again struck by a (non-existing) linguistic connection, so this is OUR problem now. #lexicography #etymology
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“Gender studies as a discipline…is defined by a set of debates and problematics.” In this 10-Minute Talk, Judith Butler FBA discusses gender as a field of study and its interdisciplinary contributions to research, social analysis and social movements.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEvH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEvH...
August 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
“Gender studies as a discipline…is defined by a set of debates and problematics.” In this 10-Minute Talk, Judith Butler FBA discusses gender as a field of study and its interdisciplinary contributions to research, social analysis and social movements.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEvH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEvH...
Sitting at home, thinking back on the amazing week that was the 19th Saga Conference in Katowice and Kraków. Deeply grateful for the excellent papers and atmosphere, my fingers are itching to put some new ideas to paper! #medievalsky
August 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Sitting at home, thinking back on the amazing week that was the 19th Saga Conference in Katowice and Kraków. Deeply grateful for the excellent papers and atmosphere, my fingers are itching to put some new ideas to paper! #medievalsky
I have two hours of sleep in me and about three different headaches piled on top of each other, but!! Hilkea, Cornelius and I made it to Katowice. Saga conference here we come!
August 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I have two hours of sleep in me and about three different headaches piled on top of each other, but!! Hilkea, Cornelius and I made it to Katowice. Saga conference here we come!
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Inni deg er det to ulvar. Dei er Skoll og Hate. Du er gravid med Fenrisulven.
March 9, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Inni deg er det to ulvar. Dei er Skoll og Hate. Du er gravid med Fenrisulven.
Maybe the real saga conference is the panicked overpacking we did the night before ✨
August 2, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Maybe the real saga conference is the panicked overpacking we did the night before ✨