local lannister siblings apologist

q, really in love with the medieval

[utterlyconfusedacademia]

I’m so tired of people discussing what’s the greatest truth Donna Tartt wrote in The Secret History when it’s obviously this one

“You want to know what Classics are?" said a drunk Dean of Admissions to me at a faculty party a couple of years ago. "I'll tell you what Classics are. Wars and homos.”

[shebsart]

The poll winner!

The title was too easy I know but it was the perfect romance title lol

[aryaisms]

Men will call you a crow. Him they'll call Your Grace. Singers will praise every little thing he does, while your greatest deeds all go unsung. Tell me that none of this troubles you, Jon . . . and I'll name you a liar, and know I have the truth of it. -ACoK, Jon I

[oldenglishtextposts]

yknow one word I’m sad didn’t stay strong in modern English is boc/bec. the plural of book should still be betch

[mediaeval-muse]

Lost copy of seventh-century poem in Old English discovered at Rome library

Dublin scholars find 1,200-year-old manuscript of Caedmon’s Hymn composed by Northumbrian cattle herder

Wake up babes new copy of Caedmon's Hymn just dropped

[arachneedle]

for those of you looking at the picture of the manuscript page on the guardian's website and wondering where the poem is - here it is! (in the pink bubble below)

This manuscript contains the early, Northumbrian recension of the poem, so the spelling might look a little weird to those used to reading Old English in the later standard Wessex dialect.

Transcription:

Nu wue sciulun herga . hefunricaes. wuærd. metudaes. maechti. and his. mod geðanc . wuerc. wuldur. fadur. swæ he wundra gih<u>aes eci drichtin or astalde. he aerist scoop eordubearnum hefen to hrofe halig. sceppend. ða. middun. geard. moncinnes weard eci drichtin. aefær. tiade. firum. on foldu. frea. allmechtig;

Translation:

Now let us praise the protector of heaven's kingdom

the measurer's might and his mind's intent

the works of the glory-father, as he of wonders all,

eternal lord, the origin ordained;

he first shaped for the children of earth

heaven for a roof, the holy shaper;

then middle-earth, mankind's protector,

the eternal lord, after created,

land for humans, lord almighty.

link to the cædmon project online where you can read the other variants of this text

(also, fun fact: the guy in the photo who helped discover this also invented the spells for BBC Merlin✨)

[enyafans4communism]

fuck, marry, kill: the wound that won’t heal, the past you can’t undo, the ghost that keeps returning

[cuties-in-codices]

more medieval manuscript repairs

all from a miscellany containg thomas de chabham's "summa poenitentialis", southern germany (?), first half of the 13th c.

source: Basel, Universitätsbibl., B X 1, fol. 56r, 67r, and 71r

[oldenglishtextposts]

I am so incapable of resisting a second hand old english book. luckily this doesn’t really come up often enough for it to be an issue

Anyway thanks for the book and translation notes Susan Gallagher. Hope you had a good time at… queens university Belfast?

[cheaphalloweencostume]

god give me a sign but not that one i just saw

[oldenglishtextposts]

god mec tacn giefe ac na þæt hwelc ic geseah nu rihte

[davidemmerich]

I'm a big hit at parties because I say things like "death to all who oppose us" and "the reckoning is at hand" when I’m clicked on

[eggpilled-maekarcel]

Much later, when the serious business of eating was done and the others had left, Mormont offered Tyrion a chair beside the fire and a cup of mulled spirits so strong they brought tears to his eyes. “The kingsroad can be perilous this far north,” the Lord Commander told him as they drank.

“I have Jyck and Morrec,” Tyrion said, “and Yoren is riding south again.”

“Yoren is only one man. The Watch shall escort you as far as Winterfell,” Mormont announced in a tone that brooked no argument. “Three men should be sufficient.”

“If you insist, my lord,” Tyrion said. “You might send young Snow. He would be glad for a chance to see his brothers.”

- Tyrion III, AGOT

Sigh…

It’s really cute how Tyrion looks out for Jon here. He knows that Jon has been lonely and homesick and so tries to get him a trip back to Winterfell so he can see his family again. And the thing is, he really didn’t have to do this. The fandom tends to downplay Tyrion’s compassionate moments and it’s quite sad. Because he has moments where does go out of his way to do good by people even when there’s no real benefit for him.

And it’s so heartbreaking because he’s the one person to actively look out for Jon since he joined the Watch. Not even Benjen did that. In fact, Benjen abandoned Jon (in an attempt to not show favoritism - which backfired in a way because Jon was emotionally neglected). Tyrion, on the other hand, actually made a point of reaching out to the boy and understanding his grievances. Not only that, but he was perceptive enough to notice that Jon was homesick and tried to find a workable solution for it. It’s a really, really kind thing to do.

Just because GRRM jokingly called Tyrion a villain doesn’t mean we should write off his many positive traits.

[amber-laughs]

[cedrc-diggory]

the entirety of the west coast needs to be wiped from existence tbh

[cedrc-diggory]

haaaaaaate my life omfg

[gracelyns]

x

[ilynpilled]

​name 3 children jaime tried and failed to kill

[wonderins]

The Laughing Storm shining in cloth-of-gold, with a black stag on breast and shield and a rack of iron antlers on his helm.

Daniel Ings as Lyonel Baratheon in A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS

[15-lizards]

MANY THOUGHTS AB THESE HORNS…OVER THE TOP RIDICULOUSLY GAUCHE STAG MOTIFS FOR THE BARATHEONS THIS SHIT MEANS SOMETHING TO ME