May 2013
chaosrose:
I’m trying to gather up lists of Ancient Norse and pagan marriage traditions, rituals, etc. Do you know of anything?
http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/wedding.shtml
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Alcuin of York, Died Today in 804
eadfrith:
Influential Anglo Saxon Monk and Scholar Alcuin of York died on the 19th May 804. His exact date of birth is unknown but probably around AD 740.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Alcuin.html
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primus-pilus asked: What up Gut! I haven't seen your stuff in while, thought I'd look you up!
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adventuresinasatru:
So, I know what a jarl is. I looked it up, and it said that ‘earl’ was the Anglo-equivalent of a jarl. But I’m curious as to why Ragnar and Harldson were both called earl, but Borg was called jarl when they were all from the same general area.
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Shaping Anglo-Saxon Lordship in the Heroic...
asnoc:
Shaping Anglo-Saxon Lordship in the Heroic Literature of the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries
John Hill
Heroic Age 3 (2000)
Most scholars of Anglo-Saxon heroic story think of that literature as embodying conventional virtues (generosity, bravery, boasting),… View Post
