onsdag 21. januar 2026

A stone for Saint Agnes

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Today is the feast of Saint Agnes of Rome, who was killed during the Diocletian persecutions of the early fourth century. She was one of the...
søndag 4. januar 2026

A year in reading - 2025

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2025 began as a limbo. In January I was unemployed and without immediate prospects, but with several obligations to which I had committed my...
tirsdag 30. desember 2025

Histories from home, part 6 - a quiet reminder

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  The centre of my native village, Hyen, is a hamlet called Straume. The name comes from “straum”, which is one of several words in Norwegia...
søndag 28. desember 2025

Synchronicities of reading, part 1 - garum in Lisbon

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  Life is full of synchronicitites, episodes in one's life that bear some kind of resemblance to one another, or that provide a sense of...
fredag 19. desember 2025

Beer and climate history - a brief case study from the Western Norwegian fjords

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  This week, my parents and I have been brewing the traditional Christmas ale. It is one of my favourite parts of the Christmas season, beca...
tirsdag 16. desember 2025

Collegium Medievale, vol. 38.1 (2025)

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  Normally, I only advertise my own publications on this blog, but the present post in an exception to the rule, because the publication in ...
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...