Hannah Armstrong

new Mary Oliver poem just dropped

I'll always be obsessed with this edit made by @tommchenry.bsky.social

This looks like a brilliant (and very practical!) series of events:

Islands Matter: #Faroese & #Shetlandic #Folklore
26 Feb, free online via @insuhi.bsky.social

Prof Jóan Pauli Joensen: “Water Beings in Faroese Folklore – Tradition & Change” & Prof Andrew Jennings: “From Fetlar to Foula – Norse Roots of Shetland Folklore”
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Congratulations! So excited to see this out in the world!

Congratulations!

He just called it "Iceland".

We've lost track of which Atlantic island we're extorting Europe for.

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Ok so this is one of those things I guess I knew in theory, but seeing it represented like this 😲

Mexico, I wasn't familiar with your game.

Here in Greenland we are scared, but certain of one thing: our home is not for sale | Malu Rosing A summit between Greenland, Denmark and Washington has done nothing to calm our fears as the US steps up its efforts to take control of my country, says Greenlandic writer Malu Rosing

Here in Greenland we are scared, but certain of one thing: our home is not for sale | Malu Rosing

It's probably only come to mind because I was teaching on William Morris last week, but I think this gives a new ring to his famous quote: '[...] the past is not dead, but is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make' (Preface to 'Medieval Lore' by Robert Steele)

A replica of the Norwegian Alstad stone - a rune-stone and picture stone from the eleventh century - has been unveiled in Vytachiv in Ukraine. The copy was made by the well-known modern rune carver Erik Sandquist. www.regjeringen.no/en/whats-new... #runology

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I do find it interesting that centuries of paleo-Inuit presence in Greenland is often described as ephemeral whilst five hundred years of settlement by the Norse amounts to the "first true ‘ownership’ of Greenland in a formal sense". [Not trying to dunk on this article in particular]

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I live in Tübingen but am back in the UK for the holiday period and was surprised by my German colleagues' vehemence that I not return before NYE was all done and dusted. It's an aspect of German culture I'd never come across before

I don't mind the ghost stuff so much, but proliferation of the Franchise Which Shall Not Be Named knock-offs irritate me - especially when I overhear tour guides erroneously say that places like The Shambles were inspiration for the books.

Norse in the North 2026: Mind and Body
Deadline for Abstracts: 2nd February 2026

We welcome postgraduate students from any level with research on any aspect of Old Norse, medieval Scandinavian, and Viking studies that fits the theme.
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Attention creative medievalists! Eleanor Barraclough & I are co-editing a special issue of Public Humanities entitled CREATING THE MEDIEVAL NOW! See the cfp for details: essays of 2,000-3,000 words due 1 May 2026. (Amazing artwork by @hellomizk.bsky.social). 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This sounds brilliant, Catherine!

saturation with Tolkien spinoffs has somehow not prepared our culture for the arrival of dark lords bearing a gift that everyone becomes convinced they can wield to accomplish great things but just makes them dependent and start whispering about preciouses if you suggest just throwing it away

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I'd add that it was a new notebook (not that they checked), but it was also really useful because the examiners had suggestions around things like publication or future research directions which you might want to jot down too. With all the adrenaline you might not remember afterwards!

I brought a pen and a notebook in to mine and that wasn't queried at all

I think their main use was making me feel better as I went in!

On a very basic and practical level, I found it useful to add tabs so I could find chapters and subsections very quickly. I think I also put in tabs with keywords so I knew where I had made arguments about specific things. But in the end I didn't need them that much in the viva.

Why are we so obsessed with the medieval right now? From burning castles to swords and magic and velvet gowns, medievalism has taken over 21st century pop culture.

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No problem, I'm just sorry I can't be of more help with an answer!

Can anyone recommend any academic essays (that are publicly available online or that you could send me) exploring the parallels between Loki and Ulysses expanding on Snorri's slightly throwaway lines on the topic. Or failing that, general explorations of Troy-as-Asgard? #MedievalSky #ClassicsSky