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Science!
Sugar bad for the memory of adolescent rats
How Rabies Hijacks Neurons to Attack the Brain
Uterus Transplant, Baby Born
Who Hasn't Won a Nobel Prize?
Tracing Our Ancestors on the Bottom of the Sea
Moon water blew in on Solar Wind -
Yay singing!
Poll Next Bardic Circle -
Old Norse in England
I was looking at my Gordon book the other day and finally took the time to read on the Grammar parts. Amongst it was this nice little section about the Norse language in England and how from what little we have of it we can tell what phonological changes that are present in Old Norse (aka 13th c. Icelandic) are not in the Norse preserved in ( Read more... ) -
Baby slings
So, looking through some of the sites elliesam linked a way back in her journal about baby slings and ways to tie them. I'm using this post as a little info dump for dimensions of the slings and different ways of tying the slings ( Read more... ) -
Some Poetic stuff
drápa f. 'a heroic, laudatory poem', probably derived from drepa 'to strike'. Composed in dróttkvætt metre, and much in fashion from 10th to 12th centuries, earliest of the 9th c. Even poems in honor of the gods, Christ, the holy cross, saints, etc. can be considered drápur, but most are in honor of kings, earls, princes, or eminent men. Usually ( Read more... ) -
From "The Voyage of Wulfstan" - late 9th c.
(Ests = Estonians)
"Among the Ests there is a group of people who understand the process of freezing. And the reason why the dead men lie there so long without decaying is that they freeze them. If two vessels full of water or ale are set down, they cause one of the two to freeze over, in summer and winter alike."
p. 5, The Viking Age: A reader -
Some quotes speaking about the Amazonian forest and soil:
[...]"what the eco-imagery would like to picture as a pristine, untouched Urwelt [primeval world] in fact has been managed by people for millennia ( Read more... ) -
Also, here!
Anatoly Liberman's talk on "Who was Odin, and Why Did People Fear Him?" was recorded and posted on the Center of Medieval Studies website. Go watch it!