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Norwegian medievalist, bibliophile, music lover and art enthusiast. [Header: Valenciennes - BM - ms. 0320, f.120v]
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As the dog is yelping in her dreams outside my door, I cannot tell whether she is chasing a deer, searching for a squirrel, or escaping the scary clumps of frogspawn she has encountered throughout the entire week.

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"Switzerland’s Abbey of Saint Gall has agreed to lend 17 manuscripts to the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin for a landmark exhibition that will combine artefacts and parchments to recreate a sense of Ireland’s golden age as the 'land of saints and scholars'" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

I've just been reminded that Sally Phillips is an absolute treasure. Balm for the soul.

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We have seen the best of our time: machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders follow us disquietly to our graves - William Shakespeare, King Lear (A01S02, lines 88-90) #Epitaphfor2025

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In medieval typology, the Crucifixion was regarded as having been prefigured in the story of Jonah, who was swallowed by the whale & regurgitated three days later. The story of Jonah often features in initials for Psalm 68. [Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 075, f.122r]

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11th century frontispiece drawing of the Crucifixion #GoodFriday Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 421; Old English Homilies; 11th century; p.1 @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social @corpuscambridge.bsky.social

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For Good Friday, the thirteenth-century Crucifixion scene from the ciborium of Ål stave church, currently housed in the Museum of Cultural History, Oslo.

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First boat trip of the year, with a very eager seadog at the helm.

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In the Book of Saint James, a collection of cult material produced at Compostela in the C12, there is a list of the many peoples who come to venerate him in Spain, including Armenians, Danes, Norwegians, Ethiopians, Nubians, Indians, Cretans & Saxons. [Universidad de Salamanca Ms. 2631, f.46v]

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Transphobia is evil, & a tool for evil. Nunc et semper.

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For Holy Week a fabulous Viking Jesus found near Aunslev church in Denmark in 2016. 4.1 cms high, made of two thin gold plates and decorated with gold thread. An almost identical figure was found at Birka and similar fragments have turned up in Denmark, mostly in female graves. @Vikingemuseet

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