While writing both Hild and Menewood I drew dozens of maps to help work out everything from travel routes to weather events to Hild’s thinking to battle tactics. These sketch maps are full of private code and wouldn’t make sense to most readers. But every now and again I like to post one to illustrate a point. So I started […]
Read more "Making my own Hild art"The first draft of MENEWOOD is finished!!
Read more "MENEWOOD!!"This is a call for contributors, and ideas, to a companion volume to Hild: an accessible guide to the book and its Early Medieval context.
Read more "CFP: A Hild Companion"Today is the anniversary of Hild’s death in 680. I mark it because Hild—and Whitby, and ammonites—have marked my life.
Read more "Hild’s feast day"Last week I spent five days at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC, to attend IONA: Early medieval studies on the islands of the North Atlantic—transformative networks, skills, theories, and methods for the future of the field. If you are an early medievalist, you should go the next one at King’s College London, November 2021.
Read more "IONA Vancouver"Two maps of Gododdin territory—where Hild becomes Cait Sith…
Read more "Cait Sith in the Eildon Hills"Hild is “A magnificent and convincing portrayal of a strange, wild, beautiful world.” — Guardian
Read more "Paperback of Hild just out in the UK"Hild is heading north to talk (unofficially, of course) with Coledauc of the Gododdin. I had to draw maps to work out where she might go, and how, and why.
Read more "Gododdin"Breguswith knew all about the miracle eye salve that fights MRSA…
Read more "Breguswith’s eye salve kills MRSA"Where, exactly, was the battle of Hæðfeld? I have a theory, based on research I’ve done on water courses and roads of 632.
Read more "Hæðfeld: Where Edwin lost his head?"