CFP: A Hild Companion
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.
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Hild’s feast day
Today is the anniversary of Hild’s death in 680. I mark it because Hild—and Whitby, and ammonites—have marked my life.
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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.
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Two maps of Gododdin territory—where Hild becomes Cait Sith…
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Hild is “A magnificent and convincing portrayal of a strange, wild, beautiful world.” — Guardian
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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.
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Breguswith knew all about the miracle eye salve that fights MRSA…
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