Doctor Griffith
For the last year I’ve been lost in a project that’s not Hild-related. And, Lo! That project was successful! I now hold a PhD from Anglia Ruskin University. I am Doctor Griffith.
Read more "Doctor Griffith"38% of English ancestry derived from Anglo-Saxon migration
An article published 19 January 2016 in Nature Communications, “Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon genomes from East England reveal British migration history,” by Stephan Schiffels et al, estimates that the ancestry of the modern-day East English population is about 38% Anglo-Saxon.
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Two maps of Gododdin territory—where Hild becomes Cait Sith…
Read more "Cait Sith in the Eildon Hills"Paperback of Hild just out in the UK
Hild is “A magnificent and convincing portrayal of a strange, wild, beautiful world.” — Guardian
Read more "Paperback of Hild just out in the UK"Quick addendum to Elfshot-and-beliefs post
I recently began Karen Jolly’s Popular Religion in Late Anglo-Saxon England: Elf Charms in Context and found myself starting to make some changes to a previous post, Elfshot, medicine, and changing belief systems.
Read more "Quick addendum to Elfshot-and-beliefs post"Frige hwæt ic hatte
Are the riddles in the Exeter Book designed to have more than one answer, and, if so, why? To educate or to entertain? Either way, here’s my solution to Riddle 53.
Read more "Frige hwæt ic hatte"Elfshot, medicine, and changing belief systems
Anglo-Saxon medicine is a mix of empirical treatment and sophisticated psychological techniques. The trick with placebo and nocebo—for both the medieval practitioner and the modern—is in understanding what the stricken patient believes. These beliefs change over time.
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