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  A Scribe’s Life (5): The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles

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  This article is part of an ongoing series of short biographies of medieval scribes (except not really this time – we’re more focused on the source …

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  The Broken Body in Eleventh to Thirteenth-Century Anglo-Scandinavian Literature

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  Anglo-Scandinavian literary and legal texts give evidence of two cultures which shared similar attitudes to punitive acts of violence; whether as …

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  Blood Eagles and Fatal Walks Revisited: Orms þáttr stórólfssonar

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  It’s nearly two years since we posted our article on the viking tortures of literature and the likelihood that the acts as described ever occurred. …

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  Reading England in the Icelandic Sagas: Cultural Memory and Archaeology

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  By on May 5, 2019 • ( 6 Comments ) ‘In those days’, Gunnlaugs saga relates of the eleventh-century, ‘the language in England was the same as that …

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  Queenship and Power: The Political Life of Emma of Normandy

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  There are few women in late Anglo-Saxon England for whom we have as much information as Emma of Normandy. The wife of two kings, we find her name in …

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  A Scribe’s Life (4): Saxo Grammaticus

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  This article is part of an ongoing series of short biographies of medieval scribes. Scribe: Saxo Grammaticus Lived c. 1150 – 1220 Location: Lund, …