Aw, Prof. Harrison -- it's so good & refreshing to hear this! I'd be eager to hear how your class finds my work.

Drop us a DM soon — love to catch up. [Bit of news: I've been invited to give a lunchtime translation workshop at P'ton, which gak! is both exciting & bizarre at the same time]

Cheers

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If you think Old English poetry only appeals to boring, old, straight, white men, it’s because it has traditionally been translated that way.

Yet that is hardly the only way to render its voices…

#oldenglishliterature #medievalliterature #anglosaxon #translation

NEW at "Translations Beyond the Horizon": Reconsidering & (Re)Translating the Old English poetic charm "A Journey Charm" (CCCC MS41; ASPR #11). Hijinks ensue.
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Beowulf’s father was named Ecgthēow.

The existence of an Ecgthēow implies there be an Ecg-hlāford.

Therefore, Hrethel was a shitposter.

#oldenglish #beowulf

Check out some of Dr. Ophelia's recent translation work, in Ellipse magazine Issue 95, "Five Poems from the Exeter Book" ellipsemagazine.com/index-95/ #oldenglishpoetry #translation #medievalliterature #oldenglish #exeterbook

New Post! Part 2 of "Translating from the Trenches" - come check her out! grouchymedievalist.substack.com
#translationtheory #walterbenjamin #oldenglishpoetry #theseafarer #translation

New lines from my translation-in-progress of Le Roman de Silence, a 13th-century Old French romance. I’ve hit the heart of the story here: the plan of Silence’s parents to raise him as a boy. #translation #oldfrench #romance #wewerealwayshere #transhistory

NEW on "Translations Beyond the Horizon" - part 1 of a reader mailbag of sorts, explaining "Heterogeneity" as a translation value. The Good Shit. #oldenglishliterature #translation #theory #medievalism

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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS: "Reading Old English to Filth," an anthology of daring queer translations of Old English verse. We're seeking new translations of OE short poems (& short excerpts) accompanied w/ 5pp intro discussing approach & methods. #oldenglishliterature #translation #queertheory

Come see me muse winsomely upon birds, poets, & bird-songs as generic labels in the #exeterbookriddles #oldenglish #riddles grouchymedievalist.substack.com

Huh. Thanks faceless, follower-less stranger...

NEW on "Translations Beyond the Horizon": a Guest Post by Denis Ferhatović. Come check it out! Free to subscribe!

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Not sure why "former Harris strategists" who, after going on all the shows trashing my 🏳️‍⚧️ siblings for causing the Dems to lose, want to follow my 🏳️‍⚧️ ass here to tell me about their new whatevers. Do they think ima detrans or something?

This is the origin story of grendel's mother...

What does it say about me that whenever i let YouTube roll on music videos that I'm never more than 10 videos away from #tonetta ? 🤔🤔

This will be you 2moro... :)

Sparkle, dammit! With enthusiasm!

With newspapers like these, who needs fascists?

Counselling, Mary...

Well, it must just be a coincidence that some election happened & I started getting yt supremacist comments on my blog again...

Don't come correcting my flow when u write like u "Human Centipede" Joseph Goebbels for fun. My advice: get further up the chain, son .

New (Re)Translation work: Aldhelm's Ænigma 100 (ca. 700 CE), originally in Anglo-Latin... it's fun to get back to some Latin after so long away. It's not complete -- this is just the first 24 lines or so...

Oh Dr Lorden, u ate with that!

Good morning! I must say, it is somewhat joyful to scroll through the feed for this new account and see all of the glorious, cute, & charming feeds I remember from my Twitter days before I had to leave the island. Where has @dril been all this time?

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