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highlyeccentric) wrote2025-07-31 11:39 pm
highlyeccentric) wrote2025-07-31 11:39 pm
Welcome!
Greetings, traveller! Welcome to Highly's House of the Peculiar. Public posts are mostly bookish: regular reading updates (What are You Reading Wednesdays, only I normally do them on weekends), book reviews, and other bits and pieces.
Fandom-adjacent, but not a Fandom Blog. Links to fannish discussions occasionally, but would probably rather not end up on a fandom meta roundup. Don't mind if fandom accounts follow me, but probably won't follow back for fic or shipping centred accounts.
My photoblog crossposts tospeculumannorum, and I also occasionally repost or unlock photo and poetry posts here.
Access locked posts tend to be personal navel-gazing: I do grant access, but usually only if I've interacted with you a bit first.
Fandom-adjacent, but not a Fandom Blog. Links to fannish discussions occasionally, but would probably rather not end up on a fandom meta roundup. Don't mind if fandom accounts follow me, but probably won't follow back for fic or shipping centred accounts.
My photoblog crossposts to
speculumannorum, and I also occasionally repost or unlock photo and poetry posts here. Access locked posts tend to be personal navel-gazing: I do grant access, but usually only if I've interacted with you a bit first.
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At the moment I'm in the process of putting together a blogspot account (http://nakedphilologist.blogspot.com/) to house my more coherently nerdy medieval thoughts. Presently, since it seems that blogger are about as annoying as LJ, the whole blog is frozen for fear that I'm SPAM, but hopefully i can get that sorted when the long weekend is past.
In the meantime, ye olde LJ will continue to house rantings and musings and so forth...
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I have a Medieval blog too: http://missmedieval.blogspot.com
Looking forward to reading more of you :o)
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*adds back*
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Keep up with the blog, BTW. Good work.
Wes thu hal!
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Friending is AOK by me :) And I do intend to keep up the NP, i've just had to take some down time right now, that's all...
King Cnut
(Anonymous) 2008-08-17 04:38 am (UTC)(link)According to my Macquarie Atlas of the World, Shrewsbury IS north of Oxford, and Oxford IS east of Shrewsbury. So where ed zachary did Cnut hang out? (I'd look it up in my Carter & Mears, but, umm, you've got it at the moment!)
Cheers
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Re: King Cnut
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1: Oh my god you're a person who knows who Aethelberht of York is! Somehow 2 characters in my robin hood universe got named Aethelberht and Thomas Beckett (brothers) by their extremely devout mother. I swear, I did not name them that way, they showed up that way. (I partially blame
2: You mentioned you are interested in hagiography. Squee, because... I wrote a paper on St. Patrick's hagiography by Muirchu as a record of the social dynamics of druids at the time of Patrick's life last year. Rock on.
3: Final squee, this spring I wrote a paper partially excerpting The Wanderer for a comparative poetry paper (compared it to a poem by C.S. Lewis in his pre-Christian days just after WWI, and a contemporary Russian poet by Anna Akhmatova) about the way people express loss and separation. I got to read it in Anglo-Saxon to do so, and that was fun, but I don't think I'd make a career of it. Awesome to see someone who loves it more than I do though, it's definitely cool.
Uh... SPAM. You can has it.
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*googles* It appears that AEthelbert may be another name for an Ealdorman Thored of York, who was around at about the time of the Norman Conquest? I don't have my copy of Stenton to hand... Or do you mean AEthelbert, Archbishop of York in the late 770s?
In summary, SADLY I DO NOT GET THAT JOKE BUT I WOULD LIKE TO PLEASE EXPLAIN.
2. Ahaha, I worked on the Patrick hagiography for a while. Compared to to some random Norse bishop, for no good reason.
3. Ehehe, I read the Wanderer a couple of months ago. Only good thing about it as far as I'm concerned is the passage which Tolkien nicked, because it made me giggle. Bloody morose elegaic poetry. Gimme cranky celebate saints any day.
SPAM. MEDIEVAL SPAM. FABULOUS.
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2: ...XD. sometimes I think I'm going to write a paper about St. Brigid lore and hagiography enhancing the role of women in Irish Christianity but that's actually not my period or even my geographic location that I'm most interested in.
3: That's actually the part I was comparing it to. Uh. Because I really liked that part. I think The Wanderer is just awesomeshit mostly because I can read it without taking out an investment of several days (unlike, see, Beowulf.)
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- E (late of Jon's kitchen)
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(I am not very interesting, my public posts are mostly IG cross posts, hopefully more-meaningful-than-average memes and the odd photo post; I totally understand if you don't want to subscribe back).
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Ah but there's where you're wrong. Anyone who starts with the maxim 'monolingualism can be cured' is likely to be interesting!
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So... I came over, read a bit, and I think we do:)
I'm into languages, books, words, all that. I also think we might just click. Feel free to check out my journal, in the meantime, I'm assuming it's OK and adding you. :)