søndag 30. november 2025

Histories from home, part 5 - a transitory monument

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  Human history is difficult to preserve in the fjords. Most of the buildings constructed in the past were made of wood, and the stones of t...
fredag 28. november 2025

Secondary medievalism? - the case of Tex, The Demons of the North

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  so now the frickin' Mounties are involved  - Dr. Bob Kelso, Scrubs S05E23 To study history requires the study of how history is being ...
tirsdag 25. november 2025

Saint Catherine in Bergen

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  Today is the feast of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, one of the female saints who achieved broad veneration in the Nordic countries at a v...
torsdag 20. november 2025

Saint Edmund in the litany - the 1482 Breviarium Othoniense and the cult of Edmund Martyr in medieval Denmark

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Today, November 20, is the feast of Edmund Martyr, who was killed by Danish raiders in 869, and whose cult became one of the most important ...
fredag 31. oktober 2025

The Danes are coming - or, Adventures in medievalism, part 7

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  Every now and again I find myself baffled at how the past is used as a vessel to promote something in the present. Even though I have been...
mandag 27. oktober 2025

Reading-spots, part 9

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  This month, I have been living in Odense for a work-related assignment, which has given me a wonderful opportunity to reconnect with one o...
onsdag 22. oktober 2025

New publication: Sanctus Suithunus

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  As mentioned in my previous blogpost , I am currently working as a co-editor for the online encyclopedia Medieval Nordic Literature in Lat...