Pleased to share a 2nd article on the 🇳🇴Norwegian origin myth of Nórr&Górr! I ponder its prehistory & explore intriguing links to the Lejre Chronicle, one of 🇩🇰DK's oldest histories. rdcu.be/cORC2 Thanks to Neophilologus for their speed and patience! #medievaltwitter

Not quite midnight sun, but midnight 'gosh isn't it light out!' Kilstraumen in Austrheim, #Norway

Heading to IMC_Leeds from Oslo! Took the scenic route

Curious about warrior nobility in medieval Poland & Norway? Come to me & Paweł's lecture IMC_Leeds this morning! 1st of 3 exciting sessions + roundtable on legitimisation of elites in Poland & Norway, courtesy of the ELITES project!

ASNC is extremely pleased to hear that a recent doctoral alumna, @becslth, has just been appointed as a lecturer in medieval history at Cardiff Uni History, Archaeology and Religion. Many congratulations to Rebecca!

"Bury me like one of your French knights"

Having a nice hot Bath

Delighted to announce the publication of my article on ideas of evangelisation in the OE 'Andreas' in Parergon Journal 39.1! I'm really proud of this piece and so grateful to the eds Rosalind Smith and Sarah Ross, along with former ed Susan Broomhall! muse.jhu.edu/article/861125

The disadvantage of deactivating Facebook two years ago was forgetting that this deeply silly photo exists... Very glad to have stumbled across it again😆

Weekend passed without incident.

And the winner for most creepy art installation goes to...

You're right, technically I can't definitely prove that an 11thC Viking in North America didn't use Elder Futhark, which went out of mainstream use centuries earlier, to write a modern Scandinavian place-name... bbc.com/travel/article…

Ikke verst med to milepæler på en gang: første publikasjon på norsk og første populærvitenskapelige artikkel i ei avis! Les om norske og polske hårklippingslegender fra middelalderen... Takk til Klassekampen

My two local Cistercian abbeys: Buildwas in Shropshire and Hovedøya in Oslo. Coincidentally, both became Cistercian houses in 1147, and both were dissolved in 1536. Buildwas was first founded as a Savigniac house in 1135, and Hovedøya was sited on an earlier church of St Edmund.

Publication day! Congrats to Dr Rebecca Thomas on the publication of her 2nd historical novel, Y Castell ar y Dŵr. Welcome to 10th century Brycheiniog and the royal residence on Llangors Lake, where nothing is quite as it seems. Gwasg Carreg Gwalch Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru rb.gy/zcwz4

🔊 New book! 📚 It's publication day for Anturiaethau'r Brenin Arthur (The Adventures of King Arthur), a new novel by our lecturer Rebecca Thomas. An adventure in Bannau Brycheiniog awaits! @walesbookcouncil @GwasgCarregGwalch Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) National Park #history

My article in Gripla dropped just in time for Christmas! Here's my take on the sources, dating & composition of Íslendingabók, the oldest surviving history of Iceland. gripla.arnastofnun.is/index.php/grip… Many thanks to the Gripla team, they do an incredible job! #medieval