tirsdag 30. november 2021

Back to the old haunt - a brief note about a workshop in Odense

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  A little over a week ago, I was able to travel back to Odense in order to participate in a workshop on fragments of medieval manuscripts. ...
fredag 26. november 2021

Achronology and exoticism - the past as a muddled country

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  My thinking was: very olden days; almost mythical; so 1628 - Philippa Perry, Richard Osman's House of Games S05E59 Earlier this ...
lørdag 20. november 2021

Jetmundkyrkja - The church of Saint Edmund in Åheim, Norway

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  Today is the feast of Edmund of East Anglia, a king who was killed by Danish raiders in 869, and who shortly afterwards became the subject...
onsdag 3. november 2021

Conference: The Cult of Saints and Legitimization of Elite Power in East Central Europe and Scandinavia until 1300

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  Next week, from Monday November 8 to Tuesday November 9, I am co-organising a conference as a part of the project where I am currently emp...
søndag 31. oktober 2021

In another country - or, a Norwegian in Oslo

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so I've got, ehm, a beard, and, eh, Viking horns  - Rachel Riley, 8 out of 10 cats does countdown S17E02    It is common for people who ...
fredag 29. oktober 2021

Balthasar the wise king in fifteenth-century Norway

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  One of the many phenomenal treasures housed by the Oslo Museum of Cultural history is this section from a fifteenth-century altar. The sce...
torsdag 21. oktober 2021

Surrounded by simulacra - my first encounter with Warsaw

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This week I spent two days in Warsaw for a work trip. Since we – my colleagues and I – had a short timeframe for discussing professional mat...