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Wormtalk and Slugspeak: 09/01/2013 - 10/01/2013
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My life among the invertebrates. Sunday, September 29, 2013. My son's first touchdown. Links to this post. Thursday, September 26, 2013. In some of the Icelandic sagas in which he appears, Bjarni Brodd-Helgason is a generally peaceful man, even though he got the nickname. Víga-Bjarni (Killer-Barney) when he had to kill some of his relatives at Bodvarsdalr. In Vápnfir. He is reluctant to take revenge; he is eager to reconcile in Voðu-Brands þ. I hate you,. You hate me,. We can call this phenomenon, in whi...
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Wormtalk and Slugspeak: 03/01/2014 - 04/01/2014
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My life among the invertebrates. Thursday, March 27, 2014. Tolkien's Beowulf: The Real Story. The Tolkien Estate recently announced that J.R.R. Tolkien's translation of Beowulf. Will be released in May. Since there seems to be a little bit of incorrect information floating around the web (thanks in part to some careless work by more than one reporter for British newspapers), I figured I should clarify things. First, I have nothing to do with this edition. I did work on Tolkien's Beowulf. The Monsters and...
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Wormtalk and Slugspeak: 02/01/2014 - 03/01/2014
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My life among the invertebrates. Monday, February 17, 2014. Giving a talk at Swarthmore next week: "Tolkien and Beowulf. Towers and Ruins," Feb 26, at 8:00 pm in Science Center 101. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Anglo-Saxon Aloud: Greatest Hits. Beowulf and the Critics.
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Wormtalk and Slugspeak: 05/01/2014 - 06/01/2014
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My life among the invertebrates. Monday, May 26, 2014. JRR Tolkien's Beowulf Translation. Some quick thoughts (more to come as I think more about the volume):. The translation itself is not a great piece of art. It is not poetic (although in some places it is rhythmical), and the still-unpublished alliterative translation is much better, quite similar to the "Mounds of Mundburg" poem in The Return of the King. And Beowulf and the Critics. Closer to what the Beowulf. The Commentary materials are straight-...
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Wormtalk and Slugspeak: Anglo-Saxon Medicine
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My life among the invertebrates. Tuesday, March 31, 2015. By now you may have heard about the team from Nottingham that tested an Anglo-Saxon remedy for an eye-stye and found that it killed methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. There's an article in New Scientist about the research here. Some readers may remember that ten years ago our Anglo-Saxon Medicine research group at Wheaton tested the same remedy. The article is on Google Books at this URL. For the first and probably the last time in my li...
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Wormtalk and Slugspeak: 11/01/2013 - 12/01/2013
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My life among the invertebrates. Sunday, November 17, 2013. For the overlapping parts, regular correlation coefficient is .349. Spearman's Rho is .357. But all that changes a lot. If you correct for that one place in the middle where the top graph goes up and the bottom one goes down. I think this happens because for most of the overlapping section we are comparing apples with apples, but just at that point, an orange or two got dropped in. And that's what I'll be spending tomorrow morning doing. Unfortu...
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Wormtalk and Slugspeak: Stare at it long enough, and you can see through a brick wall
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My life among the invertebrates. Wednesday, January 21, 2015. Stare at it long enough, and you can see through a brick wall. The data has been staring me in the face for a year or more and it just didn't sink in until today:. The rolling window analysis of thorn. Shows that lines 1924-2138 of the Anglo-Saxon poem Genesis A. Had a written, Old English. It has long been known that at least lines 1982-2005 and perhaps 2039-2095 are not drawn from the Latin Bible like the rest of Genesis A. If Im missing far...
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Wormtalk and Slugspeak: 05/01/2015 - 06/01/2015
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My life among the invertebrates. Wednesday, May 27, 2015. Summer 2015 Lexomics Research Team. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Anglo-Saxon Aloud: Greatest Hits. Beowulf and the Critics. Summer 2015 Lexomics Research Team.
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The Stars of Elbereth: September 2007
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The Stars of Elbereth. An occasional blog related to the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. Sunday, September 30, 2007. Of Sorcerers and Men. Michael Drout's lecture series Rings, Swords, and Monsters. Is now available at Barnes and Noble. Don't be confused by the name; it's now called Of Sorcerers and Men: Tolkien and the Roots of Modern Fantasy Literature. And sells for $39.95 (much less than the $98.75 Recorded Books. Monday, September 24, 2007. Coming Soon: The History of the Hobbit. For something else, I ma...
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