Was backreading (thanks for adding me!) and I have a few thoughts:
1: Oh my god you're a person who knows who Aethelberht of York is! Somehow 2 characters in my robin hood universe got named Aethelberht and Thomas Beckett (brothers) by their extremely devout mother. I swear, I did not name them that way, they showed up that way. (I partially blame fisher_queen, though.) YOU ARE THE PERSON I AM WRITING FOR WHO GETS THAT JOKE.
2: You mentioned you are interested in hagiography. Squee, because... I wrote a paper on St. Patrick's hagiography by Muirchu as a record of the social dynamics of druids at the time of Patrick's life last year. Rock on.
3: Final squee, this spring I wrote a paper partially excerpting The Wanderer for a comparative poetry paper (compared it to a poem by C.S. Lewis in his pre-Christian days just after WWI, and a contemporary Russian poet by Anna Akhmatova) about the way people express loss and separation. I got to read it in Anglo-Saxon to do so, and that was fun, but I don't think I'd make a career of it. Awesome to see someone who loves it more than I do though, it's definitely cool.
*googles* It appears that AEthelbert may be another name for an Ealdorman Thored of York, who was around at about the time of the Norman Conquest? I don't have my copy of Stenton to hand... Or do you mean AEthelbert, Archbishop of York in the late 770s? In summary, SADLY I DO NOT GET THAT JOKE BUT I WOULD LIKE TO PLEASE EXPLAIN.
2. Ahaha, I worked on the Patrick hagiography for a while. Compared to to some random Norse bishop, for no good reason.
3. Ehehe, I read the Wanderer a couple of months ago. Only good thing about it as far as I'm concerned is the passage which Tolkien nicked, because it made me giggle. Bloody morose elegaic poetry. Gimme cranky celebate saints any day.
1: Ahem. Sorry it was late I should have finished that joke I forgot to finish the joke I'm a horrible person. AEthelbert (after the archbishop, yes) is called Ash. Everyone except his brother calls him Ash. That's the big joke. Aside the fact their mother gave them both dishearteningly unwieldy names to prove her piety.
2: ...XD. sometimes I think I'm going to write a paper about St. Brigid lore and hagiography enhancing the role of women in Irish Christianity but that's actually not my period or even my geographic location that I'm most interested in.
3: That's actually the part I was comparing it to. Uh. Because I really liked that part. I think The Wanderer is just awesomeshit mostly because I can read it without taking out an investment of several days (unlike, see, Beowulf.)
1: Oh my god you're a person who knows who Aethelberht of York is! Somehow 2 characters in my robin hood universe got named Aethelberht and Thomas Beckett (brothers) by their extremely devout mother. I swear, I did not name them that way, they showed up that way. (I partially blame fisher_queen, though.) YOU ARE THE PERSON I AM WRITING FOR WHO GETS THAT JOKE.
2: You mentioned you are interested in hagiography. Squee, because... I wrote a paper on St. Patrick's hagiography by Muirchu as a record of the social dynamics of druids at the time of Patrick's life last year. Rock on.
3: Final squee, this spring I wrote a paper partially excerpting The Wanderer for a comparative poetry paper (compared it to a poem by C.S. Lewis in his pre-Christian days just after WWI, and a contemporary Russian poet by Anna Akhmatova) about the way people express loss and separation. I got to read it in Anglo-Saxon to do so, and that was fun, but I don't think I'd make a career of it. Awesome to see someone who loves it more than I do though, it's definitely cool.
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*googles* It appears that AEthelbert may be another name for an Ealdorman Thored of York, who was around at about the time of the Norman Conquest? I don't have my copy of Stenton to hand... Or do you mean AEthelbert, Archbishop of York in the late 770s?
In summary, SADLY I DO NOT GET THAT JOKE BUT I WOULD LIKE TO PLEASE EXPLAIN.
2. Ahaha, I worked on the Patrick hagiography for a while. Compared to to some random Norse bishop, for no good reason.
3. Ehehe, I read the Wanderer a couple of months ago. Only good thing about it as far as I'm concerned is the passage which Tolkien nicked, because it made me giggle. Bloody morose elegaic poetry. Gimme cranky celebate saints any day.
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2: ...XD. sometimes I think I'm going to write a paper about St. Brigid lore and hagiography enhancing the role of women in Irish Christianity but that's actually not my period or even my geographic location that I'm most interested in.
3: That's actually the part I was comparing it to. Uh. Because I really liked that part. I think The Wanderer is just awesomeshit mostly because I can read it without taking out an investment of several days (unlike, see, Beowulf.)
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