Dr Tom Morcom
@tommorcom.bsky.social
Associate Lecturer in Old Norse Language and Literature, UCL
Pre-modern narrative theory, the sagas, other bits and bobs.
https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/97142-tom-morcom/about
Pre-modern narrative theory, the sagas, other bits and bobs.
https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/97142-tom-morcom/about
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Dr Tom Morcom
@tommorcom.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Better late than never I suppose! Hi, I’m Dr Tom Morcom and I’m currently filling in as Associate Lecturer in Old Norse at UCL. My research interests are mainly Old Norse sagas and narratology but I’ve pinwheeled between plenty of other areas too- recently codicology, typology, and the Cerne Giant!
Just finished my first year of teaching at UCL- it’s been fulfilling honestly, especially convening so much Norse, teaching texts in modern lit way out of my comfort zone, and getting stuck in on the pastoral side. Shattered currently but happy (also I have a moustache now)
March 30, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Just finished my first year of teaching at UCL- it’s been fulfilling honestly, especially convening so much Norse, teaching texts in modern lit way out of my comfort zone, and getting stuck in on the pastoral side. Shattered currently but happy (also I have a moustache now)
Please consider submitting an abstract for the workshop I’m involved in this autumn in Oslo!
March 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Please consider submitting an abstract for the workshop I’m involved in this autumn in Oslo!
Reposted by Dr Tom Morcom
(I did recently write something including Stukeley's weird Anglican-Paganism here if anyone's interested: lucubrationscrachddysg.wordpress.com/2024/10/02/i...)
I Hear You’re a Druid Now, Father?! (On Christianity, Neo-Druidism, and Blog Drama)
Eighteenth-century print of a Wicker Man sacrifice in ancient Britain, attended by both a Druid and a Bishop of some kind. Image from Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / National Library of Wales. I sta…
lucubrationscrachddysg.wordpress.com
November 21, 2024 at 1:41 PM
(I did recently write something including Stukeley's weird Anglican-Paganism here if anyone's interested: lucubrationscrachddysg.wordpress.com/2024/10/02/i...)
Reposted by Dr Tom Morcom
Interested in the #Gjellestad #Viking ship discovered a few years ago? Read all about its context in this special issue of the journal Viking. journals.uio.no/viking/issue...
Vol 88 (2024): Viking Special Volume 2 – Viking Gjellestad
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journals.uio.no
November 19, 2024 at 9:12 AM
Interested in the #Gjellestad #Viking ship discovered a few years ago? Read all about its context in this special issue of the journal Viking. journals.uio.no/viking/issue...
Dundee Public Library recently auctioned a lot of the oldest books in their catalogue and I got hold of some rare and unusual gems for very little (and as the only bidder, likely saved them from the skip). The centrepiece is a complete set of Grose’s Antiquities and his Antiquarian Repertory
November 19, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Dundee Public Library recently auctioned a lot of the oldest books in their catalogue and I got hold of some rare and unusual gems for very little (and as the only bidder, likely saved them from the skip). The centrepiece is a complete set of Grose’s Antiquities and his Antiquarian Repertory
Better late than never I suppose! Hi, I’m Dr Tom Morcom and I’m currently filling in as Associate Lecturer in Old Norse at UCL. My research interests are mainly Old Norse sagas and narratology but I’ve pinwheeled between plenty of other areas too- recently codicology, typology, and the Cerne Giant!
November 15, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Better late than never I suppose! Hi, I’m Dr Tom Morcom and I’m currently filling in as Associate Lecturer in Old Norse at UCL. My research interests are mainly Old Norse sagas and narratology but I’ve pinwheeled between plenty of other areas too- recently codicology, typology, and the Cerne Giant!