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Old English Wordhord @oewordhord.bsky.social · 8d

on-līhting, f.n: illumination, enlightening. (ON-lee’h-ting / ˈɔn-liːx-tɪŋ)
#OldEnglish #WOTD

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 9d

Everything that we've known, and come to count on,
has fled the world.

Charles Wright, from Sestets 🍂

Our Days Are Political, but Birds Are Something Else

Tenth month of the year.
Fallen leaves taste bitter. And grass.
Everything that we've known, and come to count on,
has fled the world.
Their bones crack in the west wind.
Where are the deeds we're taught to cling to?
How I regret having missed them,
and their mirrored pieces of heaven.
Like egrets, they rise in the clear sky,
their shadows like distance on the firred hills.

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NorseMap @norsemap.bsky.social · 14d

Our NorseMap website is now live! Go check it out: www.ucc.ie/en/norsemap

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REBPAF (Re-Mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures) @rebpaf.bsky.social · Jul 26

‼️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.]

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Dictionary of Old Norse Prose @onp.ku.dk · Sep 17

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

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Simon @malkydungeon.bsky.social · Sep 14

Come check out my drawing of Steinunn Refsdóttir composing her poem against Þangbrandr

www.patreon.com/posts/steinu...

Steinunn Refsdóttir | Simon Dickie

Get more from Simon Dickie on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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Dr Beverliey Braune @amberbaeden.bsky.social · Sep 21

#PeterLangOxford

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · Sep 19

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

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Dr Beverliey Braune @amberbaeden.bsky.social · Sep 13

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

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Dr Beverliey Braune @amberbaeden.bsky.social · Sep 11

Whoa! This is so exciting!

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

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...

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · Sep 4

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

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Ceræ @ceraejournal.bsky.social · Sep 2

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…

ceraejournal.com

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · Aug 30

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.)

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Nik Gunn @nikgunn.bsky.social · Aug 12

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

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · Aug 20

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)
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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.

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Jonas ZA @jonasza4.bsky.social · Aug 15

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.

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culina vetus (Volker Bach) @culinavetus.bsky.social · Aug 13

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.

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Dr Tom Horne @hornesupremacy.bsky.social · Aug 9

A quick bit of video editing for Alistair Carty / Clamour of Rooks and the @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!

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Bodies and Being: The Premodern Body Project @bodiesandbeing.bsky.social · Aug 9

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

Bodies and Being: The Premodern Body Project @bodiesandbeing.bsky.social · Aug 4

It's almost that time again! Please join us for our monthly online informal meetup on Saturday, August 9.

#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory

Bodies and Being Colloquium

A monthly online gathering open to scholars of all disciplines and career stages who are interested in the pre-modern body.

www.eventbrite.com

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · Aug 9

Contemporary Australian artist Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri,
one of the founding members of the Western desert Aboriginal art movement.

Euro Hunting, 1973
#ContemporaryArt

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Pambojr @pambojr.bsky.social · Dec 16

This is a study in desert plants. I had fun pushing the colors!

A desert scene with chollo and mesquite and Joshua trees. The palette is enhanced to use a lot of orange and red and purple for the shadows.

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Dr Katrín Lísa L. Mikaelsdóttir @vanlinduist.bsky.social · Jul 16

CfP for #IMC Leeds 6–9 July 2026
“The Endless Scroll: Digital Approaches to Medieval Time”
Sponsored by @mshl-cdha.bsky.social

How can digital methods help us study or represent medieval ideas of time?

Submit by 1 Sept 2025
#IMC2026 #DigitalHumanities #MedievalSky
IMC Padlet: tinyurl.com/52dbx5ey

CfP for IMC Leeds, 6-9 July 2026

The Endless Scroll: Digital Approaches to Medieval Time

Sponsor: Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts, Iceland
Submission deadline: 1 September 2025

The Icelandic Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts invites contributions that explore how digital methods and tools can illuminate, represent, and reinterpret medieval temporalities. While we particularly welcome research with a focus on the Northern World, this call is open to comparative or globally situated projects across disciplines, periods, and geographies that approach time as both a subject of inquiry and a structuring principle.

Possible topics may include (but are not limited to):

Visualising medieval perceptions or structures of time
Tools and technologies for measuring, representing, or distorting medieval time
Digital editions of computus texts
Digital reconstruction of objects or texts, lost or transformed over time
Manuscript temporality (e.g. mise-en-page, palimpsests, gloss traditions, marginalia) using computational approaches
Modelling temporal rhythms in liturgy, agriculture, politics, or narratives
Analysis of long-term temporalities in environmental, climatic, or landscape data
Artificial intelligence and the automation of temporal interpretation
Temporal modelling in metadata, databases, markup languages, and DH infrastructures
Interface design and user experience in projects that convey or manipulate medieval temporalities
Re-mediating or reimagining medieval time in games or immersive digital environments
Temporal poetics and the aesthetics of time in digital medievalism

Please submit an abstract of around 200 words, a short bio including affiliation and contact information, and indicate your preferred mode of participation (in-person or virtual).
Proposals and queries should be sent to Katrín Lísa L. Mikaelsdóttir (kll@hi.is) no later than 1 September 2025.

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Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association @jaema.bsky.social · Jul 26

The final upcoming medieval film I know of is Robert Eggers' "Werewulf", written with Sjón, his co-writer on "The Northman". "The Northman" is the story of Amlóði, as told by Saxo Grammaticus (c. 1150–1250).

"Werewulf" will be in Old English, and is set in the 13th century.

The Northman trailer:

The Northman - Official Trailer 2

YouTube video by Universal Pictures Australia

youtu.be

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