Category Archives: Pop Culture

In Our Time: Melvyn Bragg gets jiggy with the Icelandic Sagas

Posted on May 17, 2013 by nenna

Melvyn Bragg had done his homework. He is terrifying, yes, but he certainly knows his parchment from his paper, his saga from his settler and his author from his oral tradition. I am of course talking about BBC 4’s In Our … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, History, Norse, Pop Culture, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Brave – a medievalist’s take

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Phil

A pedant-medievalist could have drawn up a list of anachronisms a hundred items long within the first half hour of Brave. But the only impropriety that really grated – the thrum of Hollywood cicadas in the Highland dusk – was … Continue reading →

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Who Are Mitt Romney’s Anglo-Saxons?

Posted on July 27, 2012 by JB

This week, the internet is full of macros like this, thanks to Romney’s aide’s comment that Obama ‘doesn’t understand Anglo-Saxon heritage.’ I think Mr. Sutton Hoo Helmet on the right is rather more handsome, don’t you? Romney’s general idiocy aside, … Continue reading →

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