søndag 19. juli 2026

Serendipity as method, or - The case for reading broadly

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  Sometimes they stand too near the problem. Often, if a person looks at something very closely he can see a few things more clearly, but th...
tirsdag 30. juni 2026

Thrice-illumined

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  Western Norway has been a grey castle this June, with mist and grey clouds being constant features throughout almost every day, and also b...
søndag 28. juni 2026

A note on reading fragments - or, Why human agency remains important

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This week, there has been a lot of publicity around the latest development in the efforts to extract texts from the fire-damaged scrolls fro...
tirsdag 23. juni 2026

A woodcut for the Nativity of John the Baptist

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I should be in bed, but since it is a summer's night I am staying up longer than is sensible. This night, moreover, is the feast of the ...
mandag 22. juni 2026

A new publication on local history

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  Two weeks ago, the households of my native village of Hyen received this booklet in their mailboxes. It is a publication that celebrates t...
søndag 31. mai 2026

A brief note against the notion of useless knowledge

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I think any fact is a good fact, in fact  - Karen O'Leary, Taskmaster New Zealand S04E04 There is a common attitude that one encounters ...
lørdag 30. mai 2026

Saint Julian in a fragment - chance survivals, canonicity, and the cult of saints in medieval Scandinavia

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  Much of my research deals with questions pertaining to the cult of saints in medieval Scandinavia. This is a topic that labours under the ...