Kennings in the Community

07/11/2013

Hello everyone. In future Emma and Debbie will be posting from the Eight Legged Horse page. If you're interested in their future projects please follow them there!

04/11/2013

Emma and Debbie are doing another Viking workshop as part of Words over Waltham Forest Literature Festival on Saturday. Come along!

http://wordsoverwalthamforest.co.uk/?tribe_events=how-to-write-like-a-viking-warrior

Whale-road, horse of the sea, battle-flame, mead of Odin…kennings are compact, surreal, riddle-like phrases peculiar to Viking and Anglo-Saxon verse. Eight Legged Horse warmly invite you to join a ...

16/08/2013

Distant Voices: from Iceland to Viking Wirral at the Grosvenor Museum:

http://bit.ly/18zgEJP

10/07/2013

"I had the opportunity to sail along the coast on a replica Viking boat, and view the land from the sea. I imagined Gudrid huddled, night after cold cramped night, beneath her boat's half-deck, short of both food and fresh water, her skin raw with sores from wearing perpetually wet clothing..."

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/nancy-campbell/susan-richardson-writing-_b_2831291.html

30/05/2013

Modern Poets on Viking Poetry anthology :D

An anthology of responses to skaldic poetry, produced as part of the cultural translation project Modern Poets on Viking Poetry

23/05/2013

London Edition

23/05/2013

http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/news/magical-books-from-the-middle-ages-to-middle-earth

The Bodleian’s summer exhibition, Magical Books: from the Middle Ages to Middle-earth, opens to the public on Thursday, 23 May and will feature the work of five celebrated authors of children’s fantasy literature: C.S. LEWIS, J.R.R. TOLKIEN, SUSAN COOPER, ALAN GARNER and PHILIP PULLMAN.

08/05/2013

Path of the field-lobster ~ 'Líknarbraut'

01/05/2013

So you think you're a riddle-smith? Resources from the Kennings in the Community project are now available online!

Kennings in the CommunityWelcome to Kennings in the Community, a resource for teachers, poets and any interested members of the public who want to learn about the scope for the use of kennings as a stimulus for poetic creativity. Kennings are riddle-like phrases used by Viking and Anglo-Saxon poets…

28/04/2013

http://www.koboldpress.com/k/front-page7831.php #.UX2I4srhfIk

Monsters and Magic for D&D, Pathfinder, Dragon Age, and Other Fantasy Roleplaying Systems

23/04/2013

http://asnoc.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/word-breath-and-vomit-oral-competition-in-old-english-and-old-norse-literature/

Word, Breath, and Vomit: Oral Competition in Old English and Old Norse Literature Robin Waugh Oral Tradition, Volume 10, Number 2 In oral society (and in literate, but more secretively), the indivi...

19/04/2013

Line-up announced for the Cambridge and London MPVP readings :D

Modern poets on Viking poetry: readings!Leave a reply a selection of poets will read their responses to skaldic verse as part of the cultural translation project Modern Poets on Viking Poetry ~ readers tbathese events are FREE and ALL ARE WELCOMECambridge ~ Friday 26 April, 7 for 7.30pmJudith E Wils...