There’s a SlashDot story that links to a story about the discovery by Professor Michael Drout (yes, he of the Wormtalk blog) having brought to light an unpublished and hitherto unknown translation of Beowulf by Tolkien. Drout has already edited and published Beowulf and the Critics. I can see, from the SlashDot story and other…
Two More Medievalist Bloggers
Thanks to the joys of referral logs, I can add S. Worthen of Owlfish, a medievalist graduate student, and Michael Drout, an Anglo-Saxonist and professor with a blog, to my list of medievalist bloggers.
Londinium Plaque Discovered
The Italian marble plaque likely was created between 50 and 150 AD and would have been placed prominently either on a building or in a shrine. It was found in the Southwark (near the former location of the Tabard Inn of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales) area of London at the junction of three key Roman roads….
A New Medievalist Blogger
Andrew Hughey of Mind-Numbing is a Medievalist-archaeologist-blogger, on his way to Oxbridge.
On the Irish Tin Whistle
Phelan has posted an excellent “Introduction to Irish Tin Whistle” over at Kuro5hin. Go read it.
Why Medievalists are Digital?
Sasha Volokh, in response to an interesting post by Garrett on the preponderance of blogging lawyers, writes: Similarly, when I was first on the Internet about eight years ago and participating in or lurking on various medieval literature listservs, someone posted a theory on why medievalists were more wired than their counterparts who studied Shakespeare,…
Gaelic Nova Scotia
The New York Times has an article on the resurgence of interest in Gaelic in Christmas Island, Nova Scotia. (You’ll likely have to register to read it). As the article makes clear, the earlier Scottish settlers of Nova Scotia, and their descendents, commonly spoke Gaelic until after World War 1. My first Gaelic book, a…
Celtica in PDF
Celtica, an excellent scholarly journal on Celtic Studies published by the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies has, for several years, made the more recent volumes available on the web as downloadable and printable .pdf files. Currently the last three volumes are available here. I can’t say enough good things about this endeavor, and the value…
In Dúil Bélrai
Dennis King has created “In Dúil Bélrai“, an antique term for a glossary. In this case, a new English – Old Irish glossary in the form of a searchable database, with over 5,000 Old and Middle Irish words, with a little Early Modern Irish mixed in. Dennis King writes to the Old Irish List “We’re…
In Search of Ancient Ireland
This three-part PBS series, filmed in Ireland, airs on three Wednesday nights, the 12, 19 and 26th of June. There’s a companion book, VHS tapes, and a web site. I’ve only seen the first episode, “Heroes,” to be followed in turn by “Saints” and “Warlords.” It’s been fun to see familiar faces of various Celticists,…