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ERC-funded research project (2024-2028), exploring the reception of Old English in nineteenth-century Europe. More info:

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The #ERCStG project EMERGENCE will explore the reception of early medieval English in 19th-century Europe! This twitter-thread will outline our five interconnected projects!

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❤️Don't miss it! ❤️Our P.I. @thijsporck will be giving one of the keynotes at the Historical English Analysis and Research Tradition (HEART) Conference! The deadline of the call for papers is 30 November 2024!
https://t.co/HvQAA0CAQv

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The first Old English grammar to give an explanation of strong and weak adjectives was published by the Dane Rasmus Rask in 1817!

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"What a blundering booby" - John Mitchell Kemble clearly was unimpressed by Franz Mone's "Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte der teutschen Literatur und Sprache" (1830), which contained editions of various Old English texts.

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Old English discovered in 19th-century Europe: Fragments of the Old English poem Waldere were discovered in 1860 by E. C. Werlauff

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One of the first anthologies of Old English was made by Johann Oelrichs in 1798, who dedicated his Angelsächsische Chrestomathie to 'the friends of Anglo-Saxon literature in England, Holland and Germany'

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🎺We are organising a cool conference on everyone's favourite abbot! 🎺

Ælfric's Afterlives: Copying, Editing, Studying, Teaching and Remembering the Most Prolific Author of Old English (27 June, 2025) - please help share this CFP :)

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Just a few more days left to apply! Join the University of Leiden Early Medieval English Awesome Research Collective [ULEMEARC] of young doctors, PhD students and guest PhDs :)

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@Black_Kettle Definitely part of the appeal! To paraphrase P. J. Cosijn's lecture 'On Anglo-Saxon Poetry' (1899): while the bards were singing in England, frogs were croaking in the Low Countries :)

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And today we are launching our "P. J. Cosijn Research Fellowship"! The first Cosijn Fellow has started working on their project on early Dutch children's adaptations of Beowulf!

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#OTD 125 years ago, Pieter Jacob Cosijn, rector magnificus of Leiden University, held a public lecture for the dies natalis of the university, entitled "Over Angelsaksische Poëzie" [About Anglo-Saxon poetry]. @UniLeidenNews

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The first full translation of Beowulf in a modern language was a translation into Danish by N.F.S Grundtvig, published in 1820: "Bjowulfs Drape: Et Gothisk Helte-Digt fra forrige Aar-Tusinde"

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@CarmenReisinge1 Yes, the "swarms" produced by German universities! He felt he had to Germanize himself to get ahead in the field :)

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According to Henry Sweet, writing to P.J. Cosijn (Leiden's first Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Old Germanic), "foreigners" dominated the study of Old English in the 19th century!

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Old English discovered in 19th-century Europe: The Latin-Old English Erfurt Glossary, first edited by Franz Oehler (1816-1866) in 1847!

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Dutchman Jan Hendrik Hessels (1836-1926) published editions of two Latin-Old English glossaries and got into several heated debates with Henry Sweet about editing such collections of glosses.

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Dr. Stolk wrote his PhD thesis on a Linguistic Linked Data approach to the Thesaurus of Old English. His dissertation was awarded the best PhD dissertation award 2023 by @LUCAS_Leiden and is available in #OpenAccess here: https://t.co/9VOWNjIh42

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Welcoming Dr. Sander Stolk (@ssstolk) to the EMERGENCE team! Dr. Stolk is a Linked Data expert, whose main responsibility will be the OE-BARD database: a bibliographical and relational database on Old English in the 19th century!

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Old English discovered in 19th-c. Europe: The Vercelli Book, discovered in Italy by German legal historian Friedrich Bluhme in 1822!

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Newly discovered Old English fragments go global! You can read the full #OpenAccess article in "Anglo-Saxon England" for free here: https://t.co/rhaEEpNDSq

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In 1847, Joseph Octave Delepierre (1802-1979) wrote an article with the title "Anglo-Saxoniana, or: Notice on Anglo-Saxon literature and its usefulness for the Flemish"