cyn-ren, n.n: family course, family, generation, kind, nation, posterity. (KUEN-ren / ˈkyn-rɛn)
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Friday! The Toronto Old English Colloquium returns with Lindy Brady of Edge Hill University's "Multilingualism, Old English, and the Viking Age". RSVP to attend in person at CMS or virtually via Zoom, April 17, at 2:30 pm.
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📢 Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky!
📜 Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week
📚 Book review by Hannah M. Bailey
📘Literary Form in Early Medieval England
✍️ Jennifer A. Lorden
📝TOEBI Newsletter 2025, vol. 41
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Our PI involved in something slightly Viking-adjacent, though it does reference some Old Norse pronouns that we still use today... #Viking #Norse #OldEnglish
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Medieval manuscript image of a man training a dog with a stick.
tama, m.n: tameness. (TAH-ma / ˈta-ma)
Image: Romance of Alexander; Belgium (Tournai), 14th century; @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS Bodley 264, f. 108r.
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ealdhrȳþer-flǣsc, n.n: meat of a mature or full-grown bullock, glossing Latin succidia (joint of pork, flitch of bacon). (EH-ald-hrue-ther-FLASH / ˈɛald-hryː-θɛr-ˌflæːʃ)
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pull-spere, n.n: a ‘pool-spear’, reed (such as grows by pools). (PULL-SPEH-ruh / ˈpʌl-ˌspɛ-rə)
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"She", for example, is younger than "he", and seems to be an amalgamation of two Old English female pronouns, Birkett says – "heo" and "seo". "[These] probably combined over time, to make 'she'," he says. I quite like 'Wit", maybe it can make a comeback? #OldEnglish #Languages #Pronouns
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Medieval manuscript image of two apes looking at an open book; an elderly man and a human-sized cat walk towards them carrying their own open books.
emn-scēolere, m.n: a fellow scholar. (EH-mun-SHAY-oll-leh-ruh / ˈɛ-mən-ˌʃeːɔ-lɛ-rə)
Image: Romance of Alexander; Belgium (Tournai), 14th century; @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS Bodley 264, f. 96r.
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mīn, pronoun: of me, mine. (MEEN / ˈmiːn)
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min, adj: small; mean, vile. (MIN / ˈmɪn)
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Medieval manuscript image of a woman with a set-square and compass showing a group of men various shapes on a table.
in-timbrian, wk.v: to instruct. (in-TIM-bri-ahn / ɪn-ˈtɪm-brɪ-an)
Image: Scholastic Miscellany; France (Paris), c. 1309-1316; @britishlibrary.bsky.social MS Burney 275, f. 293.
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📢 Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky!
📜 Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week
📚 Book review by S. C. Thomson
📘The Cædmon Manuscript: The Beginnings of English Poetry, I.
✍️ Bernard J. Muir
📝 TOEBI Newsletter 2025, vol. 41
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cēping, f.n: observation. (KAY-ping / ˈkeː-pɪŋ)
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sigor-wuldor, n.n: triumphant glory, glory of the victor. (SIH-gor-WULL-dor / ˈsɪ-gɔr-ˌwʌl-dɔr)
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A weed with tiny purple flowers, against a backdrop of green grass and vetch.
“…seo reade netele ðe þurh ærn inwyxð…” This field was fallow last summer, so it’s got all kinds of flowers now. This is purple deadnettle, invading the field just as the old guy said. It’s an important ingredient of the charm to cure elf-shot. #OldEnglish #bloomscrolling
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Medieval manuscript image of a Jesus holding a cross, bleeding from his five wounds, leading naked people out of a gaping hell-mouth; further inside the mouth an angel puts a chain around the devil’s neck.
ge-nerenes, f.n: a taking away, deliverance. (yeh-NEH-reh-ness / jɛ-ˈnɛ-rɛ-nɛs)
Image: Harrowing of Hell in Miroir Historial; France, 14th century; @labnf.bsky.social Département des Manuscrits, Français 312, f. 317v.
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In honor of Good Friday: William G. Carpenter's translation of the famous Old English poem, "The Dream of the Rood".
alliteration.net/poetry/the-d... #alliterative #poetry #alliterativeverse #Christ #GoodFriday #crucifixion #OldEnglish #Anglo-Saxon #poem #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #poetrysky
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drēorig, adj: suffering from or causing anguish, grief, horror or misery. (DRAY-oh-rih / ˈdreːɔ-rɪj)
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inlīce, adv: inwardly; earnestly, sincerely. (in-LEE-chuh / ɪn-ˈliː-tʃə)
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Best translations of 'The Wife'e Lament', please? #oldenglish #literature
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Medieval manuscript image of a fox disguised in a blue habit preaching to chickens and a goose.
ge-dwol-þing, n.n: an erroneous thing, deceit. (yeh-DWOLL-thing / jɛ-ˈdwɔl-θɪŋ)
Image: Maastricht Hours; Netherlands (Maastricht), 1300-1325; @britishlibrary.bsky.social Stowe MS 17, f. 84r.
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Paying for multiple MANSIONS & YACHTS trumps feeding the Hungry&Medicading the poor.
#READINGcomprehension?NO1READStheCONSTITUTION
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Good to know double down to your XENOPHOBIC&GREEDY Altars&Confederate bronze statues.
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frēogan, wk.v: to free, liberate (someone/something); to rescue, release; to love (mainly in poetry); to caress, embrace (someone) lovingly. (FRAY-o-gahn / ˈfreːɔ-gan)
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📢 Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky!
📜 Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week
📖 An overview of Playing with Old English: A Playful Pedagogy Resource
✍️ Megan Cavell and Renée R. Trilling
📝 TOEBI Newsletter 2025, vol. 41
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ge-glengan, wk.v: to adorn, embellish, set in order, compose. (yeh-GLENG-gahn / jɛ-ˈglɛŋ-gan)
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"The Swan's Song" -- translated from the Old English by Osage poet and Old English scholar Carter Revard
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Medieval manuscript illustration of Christ astride a donkey, followed by a group of people with golden palm branches; two youths at a city gate spread mantles under the donkey’s feet and above them other people lean out from the city walls or are up a tree throwing flowers.
palm-trēow, m.n: a palm-tree. (PALM-TRAY-oh / ˈpalm-ˌtreːɔw)
Image: Benedictional of St Æthelwold; England (Winchester), mid to late 10th century; @britishlibrary.bsky.social Add MS 49598, f. 45v.
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"The ship shall be nailed, the shield be bound", by @cassidymcfadzean.bsky.social on Forgotten Ground Regained
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bāsnian, wk.v: to expect, await. (BAHZ-ni-ahn / ˈbaːz-nɪ-an)
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