tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422935148755187067.post8064514010128576580..comments2024-03-21T12:27:14.795+00:00Comments on Norse and Viking Ramblings: Viking WeekViqueenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05144146397028019725noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422935148755187067.post-65104453139835924542014-03-17T11:46:32.425+00:002014-03-17T11:46:32.425+00:00Did you speak at the BBC History Day in Bristol on...Did you speak at the BBC History Day in Bristol on Saturday?Lyrebirdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16793313616022418245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422935148755187067.post-38795980596801926482013-01-15T13:23:08.149+00:002013-01-15T13:23:08.149+00:00Hi
I saw the rerun of the sagas programme, not re...Hi<br /><br />I saw the rerun of the sagas programme, not realising that it had been broadcast back in 2011. I was appalled and, looking on the net to find others' reactions, was comforted to read these comments. You are all too polite to say so directly, but I suspect the sagas would have found much better advocates among the contributors to this page. Such a shame.edalchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04587894241976305701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422935148755187067.post-92043617102057453692011-06-29T04:19:01.007+01:002011-06-29T04:19:01.007+01:00Carl, I know a place that would be interested in p...Carl, I know a place that would be interested in publishing such an article. Just saying.<br /><br />Re: the good Dr. Nina, her "publicists" er agents claim she's written a "seminal article" on Codex Amiatinus. Frankly, Amiatinus is a special interest of mine and I hadn't heard of it, but it was published in 2009 and no one I know who works on Amiatinus has heard of it much less called it seminal. No matter....since that doesn't address the question of why she's in the saga show. The answer to that would seem to simply be that in 2010 she did "Treasures of the Anglo-Saxons" for BBC4; thus someone in production said, "Hey, let's use Nina for this saga thing. It's all "Germanic" stuff, she knows that sort of thing." Nice work if you can get it.theswainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422935148755187067.post-61735161206602430982011-06-18T19:48:29.324+01:002011-06-18T19:48:29.324+01:00Carl, I look forward to your views on the days of ...Carl, I look forward to your views on the days of the week in due course, I'm sure the last word on this has not yet been said.Viqueenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05144146397028019725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422935148755187067.post-48595024059279225682011-06-10T14:39:50.426+01:002011-06-10T14:39:50.426+01:00I keep meaning to revamp an old Kazoo paper on Sca...I keep meaning to revamp an old Kazoo paper on Scandinavian day-names into a article. Shaw's paper is great, though I (would) take a different tack, as it seems to me that the importation of the theophoric days names into WGmc has long been seen as a 3rd-4th century thing (which Shaw argues against), though their arrival in NGmc has been usually understood as a much later (Viking Age-ish) importation. In contrast, I would try to argue that (pace Shaw) the importation could have indeed been in the late Roman era, perhaps before there was any useful contrast between 'W" and "N" Gmc, and so the use of the names in Scandinavian context might well date from the late Roman era as well. (There is, after all, plenty of Roman influence banging around Scandinavia.). When Shaw's article popped up, while I did not abandon these views, I did start to wonder if things might be much messier than any of us have been assuming, and whether we might be seeing multiple "layers" of importation; particularly, in Scandinavia, an early importation of theophoric day names being mixed up with influences brought by WGmc-speaking (mostly English, I should think) clergy in the conversion and early medieval periods (there being, after all, plenty of signs of English influence in other cultural areas at these times) .... but I really haven't got down to dealing with the nitty gritty in re-writing the presentation as a paper! Mmm, well, it's on my list ....<br /><br />But returning (at length!) to the point made in your post -- yes, obviously these are importation nonetheless, at whatever period (or periods) they may have happened! :)Carl Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08088507380154524745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422935148755187067.post-49888482271965544192011-05-20T16:58:57.302+01:002011-05-20T16:58:57.302+01:00not clear what she is a 'Dr' of
That ques...<i>not clear what she is a 'Dr' of</i><br /><br />That question can be answered, as above, but by it hang others, it seems. A rapid websearch asserts, via <a href="http://www.historytoday.com/janina-ramirez/sagas-iceland-creating-terra-nova" rel="nofollow">a History Today article on this very Icelandic subject</a>, that she is Director of the Certificate of Art History at Oxford University. Either the Department of Continuing Education's webpage is badly out of date, Dr Ramirez's CV is badly out of date, or one of them's lying, as <a href="http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/staff/academicstaff/index.php" rel="nofollow">I find this not to be the case</a>. She does have an Oxford e-mail address, at Continuing Education indeed, but they don't mention her at all on their site. <a href="http://unitedagents.co.uk/janina-ramirez" rel="nofollow">Her agent's page has further details</a> about her thesis and publications but now I feel the urge to check all the details.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422935148755187067.post-70608095277084926492011-05-19T16:42:12.594+01:002011-05-19T16:42:12.594+01:00It wasn't *quite* as bad as I feared, partly o...It wasn't *quite* as bad as I feared, partly of course through the corrective presence of Gísli and Heather, and the lovely scenery, and the modern Icelandic (though it seemed a bizarrely-skewed retelling of Lax-<br />dœla, taking for ever over the opening scenes and then whizzing through the revenge sequence, even if the death of Kjartan was quite well done. But why they hired someone who can't even PRONOUNCE Laxdœla is well beyond me. <br />Erm ... I'm being retained by The One Show to talk about the origins of the names of the days of the week in a five-minute film. I will certainly look at Phil's article. But I've already trampled on the director's dreams by refusing to allow Freyja to be mentioned. And making clear she is NOT the same as Eostre.Carolyne Larringtonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422935148755187067.post-38467628737073894032011-05-13T23:58:45.511+01:002011-05-13T23:58:45.511+01:00Dr Janina Ramirez is a Doctor of History of Art, o...Dr Janina Ramirez is a Doctor of History of Art, of all things...KJBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12317697077299031874noreply@blogger.com