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Today's knowledge commons free download "Vikings' Settlements in Ireland Before 1014" (2014) #ireland #vikings #medievalsky #history #archaeology
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November 24, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Today's knowledge commons free download "Vikings' Settlements in Ireland Before 1014" (2014) #ireland #vikings #medievalsky #history #archaeology
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Writing doesn't just help you process your thoughts.
Neuroscientists have found it physically changes your brain in ways that build resilience and help you handle everyday stress and challenges.
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Neuroscientists have found it physically changes your brain in ways that build resilience and help you handle everyday stress and challenges.
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Writing builds resilience by changing your brain, helping you face everyday challenges
Resilience is often presented as feats of bravery and endurance. But everyday practices like journaling, drafting a text or even writing a to-do list are manifestations of a capacity to adapt.
theconversation.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Writing doesn't just help you process your thoughts.
Neuroscientists have found it physically changes your brain in ways that build resilience and help you handle everyday stress and challenges.
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Neuroscientists have found it physically changes your brain in ways that build resilience and help you handle everyday stress and challenges.
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American Vikings? www.medievalists.net/2023/11/amer... #Vikings
American Vikings? - Medievalists.net
In my book American Vikings: How the Norse Sailed into the Lands and Imaginations of America, I explore the evidence for this in the literary sources and archaeology; and, also, in the way this idea…
www.medievalists.net
November 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
American Vikings? www.medievalists.net/2023/11/amer... #Vikings
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AUTHORS!!
Remember that case where a bunch of authors sued AI for stealing their work? And WON?
Well, the settlement money has been announced. Each WORK that got thefted will be compensated $3k (split 50/50 bw publisher + author). So authors will be compensated $1500 per WORK stolen.
More here:
Remember that case where a bunch of authors sued AI for stealing their work? And WON?
Well, the settlement money has been announced. Each WORK that got thefted will be compensated $3k (split 50/50 bw publisher + author). So authors will be compensated $1500 per WORK stolen.
More here:
Homepage | Bartz v Anthropic Settlement Site
www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
AUTHORS!!
Remember that case where a bunch of authors sued AI for stealing their work? And WON?
Well, the settlement money has been announced. Each WORK that got thefted will be compensated $3k (split 50/50 bw publisher + author). So authors will be compensated $1500 per WORK stolen.
More here:
Remember that case where a bunch of authors sued AI for stealing their work? And WON?
Well, the settlement money has been announced. Each WORK that got thefted will be compensated $3k (split 50/50 bw publisher + author). So authors will be compensated $1500 per WORK stolen.
More here:
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November 9, 2025 at 1:49 AM
🎁🎄Delight your friends and family this Christmas: Get 2️⃣5️⃣% off 'A Viking Market Kingdom in Ireland and Britain'!
Use Promo Code BF2025S at checkout 📚
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Use Promo Code BF2025S at checkout 📚
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We had a very fun chat with @sagathingpodcast.bsky.social. Check it out!
vikingology.substack.com/p/its-a-saga...
vikingology.substack.com/p/its-a-saga...
It's a Saga Thing!
Watch now | A great chat with the cohosts of Saga Thing podcast
vikingology.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
We had a very fun chat with @sagathingpodcast.bsky.social. Check it out!
vikingology.substack.com/p/its-a-saga...
vikingology.substack.com/p/its-a-saga...
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Love the Middle Ages? Support our work and explore the world of medieval history with us on Patreon! 🏰📜 www.patreon.com/medievalists... #medievalhistory
Get more from Medievalists.net on Patreon
creating Online Resources about the Middle Ages
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November 2, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Love the Middle Ages? Support our work and explore the world of medieval history with us on Patreon! 🏰📜 www.patreon.com/medievalists... #medievalhistory
Buy it! @alexharvv.bsky.social is brill.
Even Brussels’ street signs have heard about the upcoming release date of my next book: LITTLE KINGDOMS! (30/11/25) as expertly advertised by my wife
November 1, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Buy it! @alexharvv.bsky.social is brill.
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Trolls and Dragons — A Long History with Carolyne Larrington - Caper
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October 31, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Not long now until the Katharine Briggs Lecture and Book Award, & we're really looking forward to it! We're delighted that this years lecturer is Professor Terry Gunnell, & after the lecture we'll announce the winner of this year's book award. Get your tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-kathar...
The Katharine Briggs Lecture and Book Award 2025
Our lecturer this year is Professor Terry Gunnell, Professor Emeritus in Folkloristics at the
University of Iceland
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October 31, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Not long now until the Katharine Briggs Lecture and Book Award, & we're really looking forward to it! We're delighted that this years lecturer is Professor Terry Gunnell, & after the lecture we'll announce the winner of this year's book award. Get your tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-kathar...
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Join our medieval community—follow us on your favourite social media platforms! 🏰✨ www.medievalists.net/2022/11/medi... #MedievalWorld
Where you can find Medievalists.net on social media - Medievalists.net
We thought it would be a good time to let you know where you can find us on social media. Medievalists.net posts at a few different places:
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October 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Join our medieval community—follow us on your favourite social media platforms! 🏰✨ www.medievalists.net/2022/11/medi... #MedievalWorld
I’m pretty sure this is the grave we talked about with @downham.bsky.social on our recent podcast 😂 vikingology.substack.com/p/catching-u...
#medievalsky #vikingology
#medievalsky #vikingology
October 18, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I’m pretty sure this is the grave we talked about with @downham.bsky.social on our recent podcast 😂 vikingology.substack.com/p/catching-u...
#medievalsky #vikingology
#medievalsky #vikingology
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As expected, the chat was super fun. Thanks so much @downham.bsky.social ❤️🙏🏻Check it out!
vikingology.substack.com/p/catching-u...
vikingology.substack.com/p/catching-u...
Catching up with Clare
This time we welcome friend of the show Professor Clare Downham of the University of Liverpool back to the show for an unprecedented THIRD time.
vikingology.substack.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
As expected, the chat was super fun. Thanks so much @downham.bsky.social ❤️🙏🏻Check it out!
vikingology.substack.com/p/catching-u...
vikingology.substack.com/p/catching-u...
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We are very much looking forward to our chat tomorrow with @downham.bsky.social !!! We always have a great time. Stay tuned!
vikingology.substack.com
vikingology.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
We are very much looking forward to our chat tomorrow with @downham.bsky.social !!! We always have a great time. Stay tuned!
vikingology.substack.com
vikingology.substack.com
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This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss
The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.
www.theatlantic.com
October 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Had a fun chat with @shieldofskuld.bsky.social!
We make stories and stories make us
Recently, fellow historian and viking scholar Irina-Maria Manea and I had a fun conversation about what it’s like to search the sagas looking for historical traces of the people they recount.
terribarnes.substack.com
October 12, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Had a fun chat with @shieldofskuld.bsky.social!
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Our NorseMap website is now live! Go check it out: www.ucc.ie/en/norsemap
October 7, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Our NorseMap website is now live! Go check it out: www.ucc.ie/en/norsemap
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Calling all Authors!!! submit your claims. The compensation owed for each work runs into thousands #writing #books #he #highered #academia #author #anthropic www.AnthropicCopyrightSettlement.com
October 3, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Calling all Authors!!! submit your claims. The compensation owed for each work runs into thousands #writing #books #he #highered #academia #author #anthropic www.AnthropicCopyrightSettlement.com
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Our new episode with Gregory Amato about writing Norse fantasy fiction when you used to be an FBI analyst 😮….
vikingology.substack.com/p/a-norse-is...
vikingology.substack.com/p/a-norse-is...
A Norse is a Norse, of course. Or is it?
Watch now | Check out the wonderfully imaginative Norse world of author Greg Amato
vikingology.substack.com
September 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Our new episode with Gregory Amato about writing Norse fantasy fiction when you used to be an FBI analyst 😮….
vikingology.substack.com/p/a-norse-is...
vikingology.substack.com/p/a-norse-is...
“Time will catch us in both hands to blow away like grains of sand”
September 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
“Time will catch us in both hands to blow away like grains of sand”
Those are my people! Congrats on the project Alex and Shane 👏🏻
This pilot project is part of the ongoing @thinkuhi.bsky.social Tourism Knowledge Exchange Program, which links research and scholarship with businesses, public agencies, and communities.
Professor Alex Sanmark and Dr Shane McLeod from the UHI Institute for Northern Studies, Viking and Early Medieval Studies, headed to the Scottish island of Eigg on September 18, 2025, to organise two days of work with The Isle of Eigg Guiding Company.
institutefornorthernstudies.com/2025/09/23/u...
institutefornorthernstudies.com/2025/09/23/u...
September 23, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Those are my people! Congrats on the project Alex and Shane 👏🏻
That was a fun chat with Johanna and K.S. 😁
September 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM
That was a fun chat with Johanna and K.S. 😁
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Do go and check out Judith’s new book! Then listen to our chat with her…
vikingology.substack.com/p/the-saga-o...
vikingology.substack.com/p/the-saga-o...
September 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Do go and check out Judith’s new book! Then listen to our chat with her…
vikingology.substack.com/p/the-saga-o...
vikingology.substack.com/p/the-saga-o...
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Should you happen to be in Kirkwall on Saturday the 25th of October, do come and say hello in the Orcadian Bookshop!
September 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Should you happen to be in Kirkwall on Saturday the 25th of October, do come and say hello in the Orcadian Bookshop!
