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Carolyne Larrington @profcarolyne.bsky.social · 15d

The Bloomsbury Oxford Summer School in Fantasy is in full swing. A wonderful first day with exploration of fantasy past. Tomorrow the present and Thursday is fantasy future. Livestreamed and recorded too.

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Carolyne Larrington @profcarolyne.bsky.social · 22d

The Vestmannaeyjar in glorious weather. Spot the sheep who must have been wearing crampons. And a pufflingur awaiting a launch out to sea.

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Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social · 26d

Coming next spring ... yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Offa

An authoritative biography of Offa of Mercia, revealing his importance as the king who stood at the turning point of Anglo-Saxon history Offa ruled the Merci...

yalebooks.yale.edu

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Carolyne Larrington @profcarolyne.bsky.social · 27d

The west fjords looking particularly splendid today

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Carolyne Larrington @profcarolyne.bsky.social · 28d

The trolls are in Reykjavík!

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 29d

Tomorrow you can watch the livestream of the Oseberg viking ship being moved to its new home in Oslo's Vikingtidsmuseet!

Kristel Zilmer @kristelzilmer.bsky.social · 29d

I morgen skjer det! #Osebergskipet skal ut på sin (foreløpig) siste ferd. Flyttingen av skipet inn i det nye museumsbygget strømmes direkte av NRK. Så følg med på den historiske ferden. #Vikingtidsmuseet

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Carolyne Larrington @profcarolyne.bsky.social · Sep 8

No shooting under any circumstances!

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · Sep 8

“The chances of my first three books (all of which are out of print anyway) going into profit are roughly akin to my marrying Taylor Swift, or Travis Kelce for that matter.”

@alexlarman.bsky.social on the grim economics of publishing:

The grim economics of publishing

How it's increasingly hard to make any money out of writing books

alexanderlarman.substack.com

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · Sep 8

You might assume “Anglo-Saxons” is a simple phrase with a simple meaning, but it’s meant various things during the past centuries. This is a brilliant open-access summary of those evolutions by Prof Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The Anglo-Saxons: Myth and History | Early Medieval England and its Neighbours | Cambridge Core

The Anglo-Saxons: Myth and History - Volume 51

www.cambridge.org

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St John's College, Oxford @stjohnsox.bsky.social · Sep 8

Step through the gates of St John’s this weekend!

From 10am to 5pm, explore our stunning quads, gardens, and historic buildings, attend expert lectures, and see a whole new side of college life.

Free entry, no booking required.

#OxfordOpenDoors

Visitors and student ambassadors in Canterbury Quad, viewed through a stained-glass window with the college crest.

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Carolyne Larrington @profcarolyne.bsky.social · Sep 8

Off to Iceland tomorrow there to circumnavigate the island with #RoadScholars floating campus in the good ship Ocean Albatros. Looking forward to it immensely— if it’s half as much fun as last year I am in for a terrific time.

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Carolyne Larrington @profcarolyne.bsky.social · Sep 8

The dragon should have stuck with eating cows and maidens and not eaten a church. That’s when things really broke down ..,

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Carolyne Larrington @profcarolyne.bsky.social · Sep 6

It’s even more annoying …but quite clever in places.

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Carolyne Larrington @profcarolyne.bsky.social · Sep 6

Netflix pulled the series so they had to wind it up. Cop out, but I was so glad it wasn’t RR per se. Have you seen Zack Snyder’s Twilight of the Gods?

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Susie Dent @susiedent.com · Sep 4

Word of the day is ‘tamalou’: a French name for an older person who no longer greets their friends with ‘how was your holiday?, but with ‘t’as mal où ?’, ‘where does it hurt?’. There follows an enthusiastic account of aches and pains and doctor’s appointments.

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Carolyne Larrington @profcarolyne.bsky.social · Sep 4

Me too ...

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Carolyne Larrington @profcarolyne.bsky.social · Sep 4

me too. though it's worth hunting down the Marlene Dietrich version -- Puff der Zauberdrache ....

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Carolyne Larrington @profcarolyne.bsky.social · Sep 4

It was a well-kept secret until a witch revealed how to do away with him; the dragon was not expecting THAT.

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Carolyne Larrington @profcarolyne.bsky.social · Sep 4

apologies to BL, it's just gone up:
shop.bl.uk/products/the...

The Little Book of Dragons

Available now for pre-order. Please note that all orders will be despatched after the publication date. Publishing: 4th September 2025 Whether they breathe fire from above, spit poison on the land, ...

shop.bl.uk

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Carolyne Larrington @profcarolyne.bsky.social · Sep 4

but they all meet rather sad fates though ... poor old Puff, who never did anything wrong ...

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Carolyne Larrington @profcarolyne.bsky.social · Sep 4

The Little Book of Dragons is published today (though you wouldn't know it from the British Library shop website). But all good retailers should be able to supply, unless you're in N. America where you have to wait a whole month for lovely dragon pix ..

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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · Sep 1

We have eight medieval courses coming up in the next several weeks - this week you can use the code 'backtoschool' to get 15% off - go to medievalstudies.thinkific.com to check out all the courses #medieval

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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · Aug 30

Amazing story: one of the organisers of the group putting Union Flags up around Manchester previously did time for being part of a people smuggling gang.
manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-f...

Manchester’s chief flag-raiser has put his people smuggling days behind him

Flags protesting unchecked immigration have gone up across the city, led by a man caught smuggling migrants into the country in the back of a van

manchestermill.co.uk

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Aug 28

We are the only developed country where mass shootings happen on a regular basis. It doesn’t have to be this way.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Aug 27

Christ, some of Farage's joke made-up migrants 'policy' fell apart within 24hrs. Clownshoes grifterism to the max. Will someone, anyone, please start taking these people on - and apart?

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