Thank you!
Thank you!
We will figure something out and I still owe you a drink!
Thank you, Judith! Excited to see where this will take me!
Thank you!!!! Hopefully I can get a research trip planned to Iceland, but I’ll see you in Leeds :)!
Thank you! I think I will have to reign myself in on this topic because there is so much to explore!
Excited to announce that I have started my Humboldt Research Fellowship! After four months in Freiburg at the Goethe-Institut,I will return to Tübingen for two years to work on my project “Routes of Narration: Domestic travel in the Íslendingasögur.” Looking forward to this project!
Congratulations 🎈🎊🍾
Thanks, I will have to look into!
Buddo 🩷🩷🩷
Hirsau Monastery
The Society has today launched a new funding grant in honour of Dr Ryan Foster, supporting those who have come or returned to academia later in life.
Haha I was going to say if you are near Tübingen let me know!
Are you in Germany?
Was great seeing you :)! Fingers crossed we meet again before Bergen!
He did an excellent job (and I’m not only saying that because I was the chair for his session)! Gave me lots to think about on ethnonyms!
Likewise! Hopefully our paths cross again sooner rather than later :)!
Second Saga Con in the books! Had a wonderful week in Katowice and Krakow 🇵🇱! Thanks to the committee and all their assistants for facilitating a collegial atmosphere! It was great to reconnect with friends from all over the world and meet many new scholars who share the same passion for ON lit!
Some scenes from #Birka 🇸🇪
I think all airports should have a Varangian Runestone.
This Arlanda example is a commemoration of one of the many lost on the infamous Ingvar expedition to 'the east' (probably the Caspian Sea) in c. 1041-2.
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Quick layover in Mannheim in route to Düsseldorf. Checked out the Wasserturm and Kunsthalle Mannheim before my next bus(which of course was delayed and I could have spent more time in the museum)! Really enjoyed viewing the works of Tavares Strachen and seeing some photos of Marlene Dietrich!
A few pictures from my trip to Stuttgart’s beautiful library 📚 a few days ago!
Send me a dm with your email address and I will send when I’m at a computer!
Thank you!
Excited to announce that my first book chapter 'Frá Birni er nær allt stórmenni komit á Íslandi: A Social Network Analysis of Bjǫrn buna’s Descendants in Landnámabók (The Book of Settlements)' has been published in Social Network Analysis and Medieval History! Let me know if you would like a copy!
Medieval Healers Used Nettles to Treat Wounds, Not Just to Sting, Study Finds www.medievalists.net/2025/06/medi... #MedievalMedicine #Nettles #Medicine #History
An excerpt from a signboard. The critical feature is an illustration showing two Neolithic farmers, which is clearly a take-off of American Gothic by Grant Wood.
Whoever was responsible for designing the Historic Scotland information board at Wideford Hill Cairn deserves a medal for it.
Excited to receive my physical copy of Storyworlds and Worldbuilding in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature edited by @beccamerkelbach.bsky.social! Looking forward to digging into some of these articles! Plus, a beautiful cover to boot!
This one always will have a special place in my heart!
Maen Achwyfan Viking Age carved cross. Image from Wikipedia by Andrew - Creative Commons license
Super excited that the Proceedings of the Viking Congress for Wales and NW England has just gone to press (Liverpool University Press). David Griffiths, Nancy Edwards, Fiona Edmonds and myself as co-editors. Our cover image is to be of the lovely Viking Age cross of Maen Achwyfan #medieval