Ben Allport

Article double whammy! Excited to share my new article with Scandinavian Journal of History. It traces a weird opposition of east & north in my beloved Ohthere's Voyage & other accounts of Norwegian geography from the 9thC to the 19thC tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #medievaltwitter

My article in Gripla dropped just in time for Christmas! Here's my take on the sources, dating & composition of Íslendingabók, the oldest surviving history of Iceland. gripla.arnastofnun.is/index.php/grip… Many thanks to the Gripla team, they do an incredible job! #medieval

🔊 New book! 📚 It's publication day for Anturiaethau'r Brenin Arthur (The Adventures of King Arthur), a new novel by our lecturer Rebecca Thomas. An adventure in Bannau Brycheiniog awaits! @walesbookcouncil @GwasgCarregGwalch @BannauB #history

@HopeSteffen Does it taste like regret?

Back in my office after a lovely work trip to Vienna. At long last, I'm drinking coffee that actually tastes something else than bitterness.

@OARonning 1. Skåne 2. Viken 3. Kristendom 4. Runestein

1. Ta tilbake Skåne.

@JanBrogger A really exciting find! Both the age and the location are intriguing - it's an area that doesn't get much attention, but should.

Re-writing the Viking age: a ship grave from the earlier Merovingian. Something for @Ohthere2_0 nrk.no/trondelag/skan…

Publication day! Congrats to Dr Rebecca Thomas on the publication of her 2nd historical novel, Y Castell ar y Dŵr. Welcome to 10th century Brycheiniog and the royal residence on Llangors Lake, where nothing is quite as it seems. @CarregGwalch @LlyfrauCymru rb.gy/zcwz4

@HopeSteffen Promise me that this will be the first paragraph of your novel/autobiography

Having been impertined by cows, I'm now sitting in a bog, waiting for a panting dog to calm down after having over-exerted herself due to the scent of deer in the distance. There are ten thousand gnats. Probably.

My two local Cistercian abbeys: Buildwas in Shropshire and Hovedøya in Oslo. Coincidentally, both became Cistercian houses in 1147, and both were dissolved in 1536. Buildwas was first founded as a Savigniac house in 1135, and Hovedøya was sited on an earlier church of St Edmund.

@HopeSteffen Hva heter det på norsk?

A meadwort in bloom. The source of an ambrosial cordial & a key ingredient in the perfume of Norwegian summers in the fjords.

@MarieTheuerkauf Although this particular instance is photoshopped - this is the #NotMyKing protestor from last September

Ikke verst med to milepæler på en gang: første publikasjon på norsk og første populærvitenskapelige artikkel i ei avis! Les om norske og polske hårklippingslegender fra middelalderen... Takk til @Klassekampen

@BeccaMerkelbach Currently waiting on one myself! 😅

Article double whammy! Excited to share my new article with Scandinavian Journal of History. It traces a weird opposition of east & north in my beloved Ohthere's Voyage & other accounts of Norwegian geography from the 9thC to the 19thC tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #medievaltwitter

You're right, technically I can't definitely prove that an 11thC Viking in North America didn't use Elder Futhark, which went out of mainstream use centuries earlier, to write a modern Scandinavian place-name... bbc.com/travel/article…

And the winner for most creepy art installation goes to...

@Rusticulus_R If you mean the whole statue then yes 😉

Weekend passed without incident.

The disadvantage of deactivating Facebook two years ago was forgetting that this deeply silly photo exists... Very glad to have stumbled across it again😆

Delighted to announce the publication of my article on ideas of evangelisation in the OE 'Andreas' in @ParergonJournal 39.1! I'm really proud of this piece and so grateful to the eds Rosalind Smith and Sarah Ross, along with former ed Susan Broomhall! muse.jhu.edu/article/861125