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Hana Videen
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Writer, medievalist and hoarder of words, author of THE WORDHORD: DAILY LIFE IN OLD ENGLISH and THE DEORHORD: AN OLD ENGLISH BESTIARY. (she/her)
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So I'm curious... I know this image from the De Brailes Psalter represents Gemini, but why are the twins holding a pizza? What is that supposed to be? (New College, Oxford, MS 322, f. 3r) #MedievalSky
Medieval manuscript image of two people holding a large triangle between them, with an orange section on top, then a gold section, and the largest section is white with black spots.
April 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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So I'm not a Latinist and I really want to know what this says. Can anyone help? (It pertains to nothing, but I love the image and want to know what it is!)
#Latin #medievalsky
A snail-like creature emerging from a big spiky shell with a caption in Latin beginning (I think, if I'm reading it correctly) Blacte bigantie.
March 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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The Old English word of the day is bōc-gestrēon (noun): a book-treasury, library. (BOAK-yeh-STRAY-on / ˈboːk-jɛ-ˌstreːɔn) Why not add THE DEORHORD to your personal bōc-gestrēon (or that of a frēond)? It’s Blackwell's Non-Fiction BOOK OF THE MONTH!
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
#nonfiction
A graphic of “The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary” with a photo of the author Hana Videen; the text reads “Blackwell’s Non-Fiction Book of the Month”. A quote from Eleanor Janega says “Invaluable - and hugely entertaining… It is an absolute romp and a must-have for history and fantasy enthusiasts alike.” There are illustrations of a finned horse-like creature, a dragon, a griffin and some ants, and a banner reads “Shop instore and online at blackwells.co.uk.”
November 1, 2024 at 12:45 PM
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This gange-wæfre (walker-weaver) hanging out on my screen dreams of being a word-wæfre (word-weaver)… #TheDeorhord #OldEnglish
A spider sitting on a computer screen, with Old English words and definitions in the background, including gange-wæfre, noun: spider (walker-weaver).
April 19, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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Today is publication day for my book THE DEORHORD: AN OLD ENGLISH BESTIARY! Welcome to the strange and delightful world of Old English animals — the ordinary, the extraordinary, the good, the bad and the baffling.
Find out more at oldenglishwordhord.com/deorhord-book/
A red-haired, glasses-wearing, thirty-something woman with bird earrings and a big smile holds a green and gold book, "The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary" by Hana Videen; the background is a forest with autumn colours. A book, “The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary”, by Hana Videen, resting on a log with an orange leaf beside it. The cover background is white with a gold and green border with decorative gold squares. The title and author’s name are written inside an arched window shape, with a border of words around it: culfre, heafod swelce mona, healf-hundingas, æmette, igil, hind, dentes tyrannum, fenix, reord-berend, ungefrægelican deor, nædre, wulf and hwæl. The area surrounding the Old English word border has wood-cut style illustrations in green and gold, each in its own compartment but overlapping slightly: a wolf, a whale, a dove, a spiky lizard with big teeth, a dog-headed person holding a cross, a deer, a weird-looking rhino-like creature, a phoenix in a burning nest, a nun writing, a snake and a griffin. By the author’s name it says “Author of The Wordhord”, which Neil Gaiman described as “Marvellous”, and some ants crawl alongside it.
November 2, 2023 at 2:30 PM