#guthlac

[captaindibbzy]

I thought this explained the current situation very well, and also why you should be very careful about spreading unrepairable posts giving you news and asking for money.

[eadfrith]

Some of my Photos of Crowland Abbey, 

[captaindibbzy]

Boy continues with his adventures in Polynesian navigation for his video.

This is a star compass, one of the methods used for navigation. Polaris at the north and the Southern Cross to the south. Then through the night the other points move from east to west. We have the Seven Sisters/Pleiades in North East and North West, Orion on East and West, then Scorpius in South East and West.

And the entire thing is really quite amazing. Like, it's difficult to entirely comprehend how big the Pacific is because most maps are Europe centred, so it's two halves on either side of a wall map. This was their compass and expert navigators could navigate by one star in the sky and then a memorised knowledge of how the sky would look based on the time of night and the time of year.

He goes in to all this in the video which is still a fair way off being finished. You can check his other videos here. And his Twitter here.

[captaindibbzy]

My brother has been spending months researching Polynesian sailing and he's finally started animating it this week. This is so fucking cool.

Bonus Polynesian chicken that may look familiar.

It will be a long time till this is out but in the mean time please go watch his other videos. He puts months of work in to each one and he finally reached the threshold for making money off YouTube's system around new year. His YouTube can be found here or you can search Guthlac.

[eadfrith]

Guthlac

Find out more about Guthlac’s life and works at the British Library.

Died today 11th April in 715

[captaindibbzy]

Hey if you've got 15 minutes or so you should watch my brother's latest video. It's not doing as well as he'd hoped but it's interesting.

[drakonicwords]

The ways in which sceadu is articulated in these patterned passages call for two remarks. First, there is a consistent presentation of shadow, or shadows, as moving, whether coming or going away, and one notes that grammatically sceadu tends to be the subject. Whether or not this can conjure some such impression as that of a sentient being or wilful force extending its menace, the moving-shadow-in-the-dark image certainly receives striking verbal and syntactical emphasis. More remarkably still, this ominous emphasis is bestowed no less on a sceadu that actually retreats. Potentially cheerful passages where we are told shadows are dispelled actually still feel somewhat eerie and sinister because of the shadows’ quasi-physical, obstinate verbal lingering.

—Filip Missuno, ‘Shadow’ and Paradoxes of Darkness in Old English and Old Norse Poetic Language

[drakonicwords]

Wuldres scima, æþele ymb æþelne, ondlonge niht scan scirwered. Scadu sweþredon, tolysed under lyfte. Wæs se leohta glæm ymb þæt halge hus, heofonlic condel, from æfenglome oþþæt eastan cwom ofer deop gelad dægredwoma, wedertacen wearm [The radiance of glory shone all night long, the noble [light] on the noble man, clothed in brightness. The shadows (scadu) faded away, unloosed under the sky. The radiance of light was about the holy house, the heavenly candle, from even-gloom until from the east came the crack of dawn over the deep expanse, a warm weather-sign.]

—Anonymous, Guthlac B (trans. Filip Missuno)