Benedek Bordás

Székely, Amateur Medievalist, Language lover, incurable nostalgic

[Konrad 🇸🇪 @germanicgems]

Old Norse holm-ganga ("holmgong") is usually taken to simply mean duel, but this is not true. Norse sources explicitly distinguished between the holmgong and single combat. Luckily we have the rules of the holmgang preserved in Cormac's Saw, and from it we see that...

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@ptsdboy In undergrad I used to sit next to where the Gutmann was on the shelf and just stare at the images instead of working. Great haul.

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Perhaps I need to acquire a large-brimmed hat to harness its esoteric powers.

[Román @Zmei_Hhsss]

what is the connection between insular communities and brimmed hats?

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@Zmei_Hhsss I think almost everyone used to wear (usuallybrimmed) hats, and these groups are just slower to change than others.

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@grahamscheper Especially funny to make this make and then append the nominative r.

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It's like Christmas when one of your interlibrary loan requests actually comes through.

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@keletinyugati Enjoy, Przemysl is a real treat!

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@germanicgems Why are you trying to get into snus?

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If you work at a school and you don't bring a packed lunch, they'll kill you.

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@Zmei_Hhsss It hurts to see others living your dream.

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@PAHoyeck In terms of subject, it is about a 14 century Icon painter but it also wrestles with religious themes throughout, probably the best film there is in terms of portraying the Middle Ages. But I should warn you that there is some animal cruelty.

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If you're a guy in your 20s,

Read this book.

Go into debt if you have to.

[Phil Hoyeck @PAHoyeck]

If you're a guy in your 20s,

Read this book.

Go into debt if you have to.

[Benedek Bordás @BaBordas]

Gutted to hear about the passing of Chris Wickham, whose work really pushed me in direction of the Middle Ages when I first started studying history. Memory Eternal!

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I have a problem accessing academic articles & books.
Brill issue.

[Armand D'Angour @ArmandDAngour]

I can't eat pickled gherkins.
Dill issue.

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@AntigoneJournal Do we know roughly how much you needed to have correct to make it into the first hundred?

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@Graham_Mark_E You have to commit, it's either the undisputed seven or all 13 (14).

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Another strange legacy of the Hungarian reformation, though it seems this one has faded with time.

[Wylfċen @wylfcen]

Who is making maps like this? Autists whose special interest is liquorice?

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@freedern De har det på narvesen ja, men det er faktisk:

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@dieworkwear I would love to know where I can get frames like this.