Emeritus Professor of Viking Studies @UoNEnglish.bsky.social. Visiting Professor @insuhi.bsky.social, FBA. The Saga of the Earls of Orkney: https://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-saga-of-the-earls-of-orkney/ See https://uonenglish.substack.com/s/ragnas-islands .. more
Emeritus Professor of Viking Studies @UoNEnglish.bsky.social. Visiting Professor @insuhi.bsky.social, FBA. The Saga of the Earls of Orkney: https://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-saga-of-the-earls-of-orkney/ See https://uonenglish.substack.com/s/ragnas-islands
Judith Jesch is a British scholar of Old Norse language and literature, runology, and the Viking Age. She was Professor of Viking Age Studies at the University of Nottingham until 2025. Jesch is chair of the international Runic Advisory Group and president of the English Place-Name Society. .. more
Live and Let Doodle-Poll
No Time to Die: Techno-Fascism and Its Imaginaries of Immortality
Reposted by Judith Jesch
No Time to Die: Techno-Fascism and Its Imaginaries of Immortality
Tomorrow Never Dies: Post-Modern Media and Neoliberal Futures in Late 20th Century Southeast Asia
Live and Let Doodle-Poll
Jane Austen as a writer about law
Some notes on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, by me
(And also why there is only one good adaptation of her works.)
emptycity.substack.com/p/jane-auste...
Reposted by Judith Jesch
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/litmus
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en.wiktionary.org/wiki/litmus
Reposted by Judith Jesch
Reposted by Judith Jesch
Reposted by Judith Jesch
[Ål stave church; Museum of Cultural History, Oslo]
Reposted by Justin Lewis, Judith Jesch
Reposted by Judith Jesch
Fish, whale & dolphin bone, recorded here over many years, suggested a specialised fish processing site.
In early 2025 Storm Éowyn exposed stone buildings buried in sand. We sampled fish bone for radiocarbon dating. The result? ...
Reposted by Judith Jesch
Reposted by Judith Jesch
Reposted by Judith Jesch
You're fair and fit to wield
the power of good people's kings;
the Shetlanders are known
to you as your subjects.
No battle-swift king
who subjugated western islands
had arisen in the eastern land,
before it got you.
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þjóðskjǫldunga góðra
haldið hæft á veldi
(Hjaltlendingar kenndir).
Engi varð á jǫrðu
ógnbráðr, áðr þér nôðum,
austr, sás eyjum vestan,
ynglingr, und sik þryngvi.
Ótt Hfl 20
Reposted by Judith Jesch
Reposted by Judith Jesch
Reposted by Judith Jesch
