#just medieval things

[jester-is-back-on-his-bullshit]

Life in 1372 was so boring, you couldn't even whip and nae nae. You just died.

[goingsparebutwithprecision]

I’ve worked out what my problem is with the whole sexy-shimmery-golden-Angelina-Jolie Grendel’s Mum, and it is, once again, that straight men are cowards.

[teachingmycattoread]

New episode is up! In which a quick and dirty history of Anglo-Saxon England is provided, M resurrects Seamus Heaney just to kill him again, and the cat fell asleep halfway through.

Also available on Spotify

[goingsparebutwithprecision]

Medievalist drinking game: everytime someone (*side-eyes Heaney*) translates wiht or gæst as “demon” or “brute” instead of “creature” take a shot.

[goingsparebutwithprecision]

so i’m like two thirds of the way through Lies Sleeping and we’ve just found out that the antagonists are trying to bring back Merlin and not Arthur and I cannot decide which is funnier:

1) they bring back Myrddin, original flavour Middle Welsh poetry Myrddin, who lives in the forest and talks to apple trees and tiny pigs.

2) they bring back Merlin from the BBC tv show. You know. This guy:

[goingsparebutwithprecision]

Grendel: I think my plan to get the Danes to stop throwing loud parties is going great!

Beowulf: (flexes)

Grendel, stuffing half-eaten Danes into his purse: I have to go right now immediately

[goingsparebutwithprecision]

Rereading Beowulf for @teachingmycattoread recording next week and I am desperately trying to come up with a “this bitch empty - GEAT!” joke and I am failing dismally but goddamn the potential

[formerlyemo]

Y'all Old English is fucking hard why didn't anyone warn me????