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Katrin How on earth did they do it?
27. März 2024
Ah, that's good to know! I might have a look around just out of curiosity. I've since learned that w...
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...though not entirely easy. I've been able to get my hands on a few strands over the years for Geor...
Katrin Hieroglyphs.
23. Februar 2024
Yes, that would sort of fit that aspect - but you can also go from bits of woods to sticks if you ar...
Bruce Hieroglyphs.
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I think the closest English equivalent would be 'Down the rabbit hole'. It has one entrance (No, not...
Harma Spring is Coming.
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I'm definitely jealous! Mine disapeared except for one pathetic little flower. But the first daffodi...

Friday Linky Stuff Round-Up.

It's Friday again, the sun is shining, and I am in dire need of some coffee (which I will make as soon as this blogpost is done). So - Friday links for you!

First of all, there's a nice post by Juliet McKenna about embroidery, and what the "richly embroidered wall-hangings" in a fantasy novel (or in a medieval source, of course) actually mean in terms of time spent (and thus in terms of wealth).

Twitter has changed its display style from chronological to an algorithm a bit similar to the Facebook one - you are now getting tweets first in line that the algo thinks you'd be more interested in. Here's a longer post about it - but if you just want to go back to how Twitter was before, go into the "settings" menu and uncheck the appropriate box.

Internet memes change our language - for instance, turning nouns into verbs (let me google that for you) has become quite common. JSTOR Daily has an article about this phenomenon here.

The British Library has an Anglo-Saxon manuscript digitisation project running, and the latest addition is the 11th-12th century MS Cotton Vespasian A XIV, which contains the letter book of Archbishop Wulfstan.

Medieval Histories has a short article about 13th-century knitted mittens from Estonia (where else?).

And that's it for this week. Have a sunny weekend!
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