@toebi.bsky.social📢Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky!
📜The #OldEnglish Resource of the Week
📖 The Anglo-Latin Poetic Tradition: Sources, Transmission, and Reception, ca. 650-1100
✍️Editor: Colleen M. Curran
📲ARC Humanities Press: www.arc-humanities.org/978180270062...
@oewordhord.bsky.socialweorc-mann, m.n: one who works, a labourer. (WEH-ork-MAHN / ˈwɛɔrk-ˌman)
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@ashiggins.bsky.socialFinished! this is a brilliant well researched book about Offa King of the Mercians (or perhaps the English) by @RoryNaismith with an excellent analysis of what we know about Offa especially through close analysis of charters and coins #Offa #OldEnglish #Books
@oewordhord.bsky.socialeodor, m.n: enclosure, fence, hedge, wall; zone, region; protector, protective lord. (EH-oh-dor / ˈɛɔ-dɔr)
Image: Livre d'Heures de Jean Sans Peur; Flanders, 1409-1419; @labnf.bsky.social Département des manuscrits, NAL 3055, f. 178v.
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@oewordhord.bsky.sociallār-lēast, f.n: lack of learning or instruction. (LAHR-LAY-ost / ˈlaːr-ˌleːast)
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@northeastvernacula.bsky.socialEcossais méridional du nord de l’Angleterre (the ‘South Scotch of Northern England’)
#linguistics #language #OldEnglish #dialect #philology #sociolinguistics #Northumbria #Scots #Scottishborders #placenames #toponymy #Bonaparte
@slluttrell.bsky.socialSeptember 18th: The outdated word for today is "seonoþ," meaning "synod."
Pronunciation (I think): say-OH-nuth.
Source: Earle, J. (1884.) Anglo-Saxon Literature. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
See you Monday!
@oewordhord.bsky.socialhors-camb, m.n: horse-comb, instrument for combing the hair of horses, curry-comb. (HORS-KAHMB / ˈhɔrs-ˌkamb)
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@oewordhord.bsky.socialancor-setl, n.n: prow. (AHN-kor-SEH-tull / ˈan-kɔr-ˈsɛ-təl)
Image: Dialogi; Flanders (Liège), 12th century; Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale Albert I, Ms 9916-17, f. 61r.
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@oewordhord.bsky.socialgiccig, adj: of skin diseases: itchy, irritating. (YIH-chih / ˈjɪ-tʃɪj)
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@quirkytranslators.bsky.socialTransform your event vows and narrative scripts into authentic ninth-century Anglo Saxon prose with accurate historic vocabulary. https://quirkytranslators.com/historical-english/old-english-translator/ #OldEnglish #AngloSaxon
@oewordhord.bsky.socialcyric-belle, f.n: church-bell, i.e., hand-bell used in church. (CHUE-rich-BELL-luh / ˈtʃy-rɪtʃ-ˌbɛl-lə)
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@jwwanzer.bsky.socialA soft goal for the year is to read 50 books, nine months in I'm at 30. With a shift in research field to #medievalstudies #anglosaxons #oldenglish and #oldnorse the books are getting thicker and denser. I may not get to 50, but that's okay.
@oewordhord.bsky.socialcamp-dōm, m.n: warfare. (KAHMP-dome / ˈkamp-doːm)
Image: Roda Bible; Spain (Catalonia), 11th century; @labnf.bsky.social Latin 6 (2), f. 21r.
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@bookofworldhistory.bsky.socialAnglo-Saxons: From Pagan Britain to the Norman Conquest
The Anglo-Saxons refused to assimilate. Inside their pagan beliefs, weregild, the Synod of Whitby, Bede, Alfred's Old English books…
#AngloSaxons #OldEnglish
https://bookofworldhistory.com/blog/anglo-saxons-pagan-britain-to-norman-conquest
@oewordhord.bsky.socialeald-hād, m.n: old age. (EH-ald-hawd / ˈɛald-haːd)
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@oewordhord.bsky.socialsweorfan, str.v: to rub, scour, file. (SWEH-or-vahn / ˈswɛɔr-van)
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@oewordhord.bsky.socialun-rōtness, f.n: sorrow. (UN-ROAT-ness / ˈʌn-ˌroːt-nɛs)
Image: The apostle Peter in a lectionary; Turkey (Istanbul), mid 12th century; Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.692, f. 183r.
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@oewordhord.bsky.socialstæg, n.n: a stay, a rope supporting a mast. (STAEY / ˈstæj)
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