If you enjoyed the Norwegian entry this year, can I interest you in the mediaeval topos if the maiden king?

I've come across A LOT of good 17th- and 18th-century Quaker names over the past 3.5 years, as I've worked on my thesis. Now that my thesis is done and submission is near, it's time to share the more than 90 wildest early Quaker names I've found (in alphabetical order):

I love these very good boys on f.69r of St Gallen, Kantonsbibliothek, VadSlg MS 317 e-codices.unifr.ch/en/vad/0317/69…

I have taken a normal amount of pictures of the sunrise, I'm sure we can agree

Do I know anyone going to trans pride in London? I'm looking forward to Ely pride, but would quite like to also go to a slightly bigger event....

Vegir Blåhaj eru órannsakanlegir. Í miðvikudagsmola dagsins gerðum við þó heiðarlega tilraun til að kafa dýpra í tilvist goðsagnakenndu Blåhaj

28% of adults living in a household with at least one child ran out of food in the past two weeks and couldn't afford any more. That's eight children out of a class of 30 growing up where there is regularly no food at home. It's not right, and it doesn't have to be like this.

Finally! It was always a bit galling that I could strike from my faculty work (as a rule much more fairly paid) but not from supervising, where some weeks I was making less than £2/hour

how did this guy end up in 15th cen Germany?!

On the one hand, it is nice that posts on my company's chat channels about the gov's promise to get 'wokeism' out of science have all been variations on 'professionally speaking, fuck this' On the other hand, this wretched fucking country, man

It's the most wonderful time of the year.....

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