Ben Allport

ECR of Medieval Scandinavia @UniOsloHF. Aspiring voyager to/within Norðmannaland.

[Ben Allport @Ohthere2_0]

Article double whammy! Excited to share my new article with Scandinavian Journal of History.
It traces a weird opposition of east & north in my beloved Ohthere's Voyage & other accounts of Norwegian geography from the 9thC to the 19thC
https://t.co/zwY1lBsuhf
#medievaltwitter

[Ben Allport @Ohthere2_0]

My article in Gripla dropped just in time for Christmas! Here's my take on the sources, dating & composition of Íslendingabók, the oldest surviving history of Iceland. https://t.co/EzsmFizppD
Many thanks to the Gripla team, they do an incredible job! #medieval

[Cardiff Uni History, Archaeology and Religion @CUHistArchRel]

🔊 New book! 📚
It's publication day for Anturiaethau'r Brenin Arthur (The Adventures of King Arthur), a new novel by our lecturer Rebecca Thomas.
An adventure in Bannau Brycheiniog awaits!
@walesbookcouncil @GwasgCarregGwalch @BannauB #history

[Ben Allport @Ohthere2_0]

@HopeSteffen Does it taste like regret?

[Ben Allport @Ohthere2_0]

@OARonning 1. Skåne
2. Viken
3. Kristendom
4. Runestein

[Ben Allport @Ohthere2_0]

@JanBrogger A really exciting find! Both the age and the location are intriguing - it's an area that doesn't get much attention, but should.

[Cardiff Uni History, Archaeology and Religion @CUHistArchRel]

Publication day! Congrats to Dr Rebecca Thomas on the publication of her 2nd historical novel, Y Castell ar y Dŵr. Welcome to 10th century Brycheiniog and the royal residence on Llangors Lake, where nothing is quite as it seems. @CarregGwalch @LlyfrauCymru https://t.co/IuxFY7o04x

[Ben Allport @Ohthere2_0]

@HopeSteffen Promise me that this will be the first paragraph of your novel/autobiography

[Ben Allport @Ohthere2_0]

My two local Cistercian abbeys: Buildwas in Shropshire and Hovedøya in Oslo. Coincidentally, both became Cistercian houses in 1147, and both were dissolved in 1536. Buildwas was first founded as a Savigniac house in 1135, and Hovedøya was sited on an earlier church of St Edmund.

[Ben Allport @Ohthere2_0]

@HopeSteffen Hva heter det på norsk?

[Ben Allport @Ohthere2_0]

@MarieTheuerkauf Although this particular instance is photoshopped - this is the #NotMyKing protestor from last September

[Ben Allport @Ohthere2_0]

Ikke verst med to milepæler på en gang: første publikasjon på norsk og første populærvitenskapelige artikkel i ei avis! Les om norske og polske hårklippingslegender fra middelalderen...
Takk til @Klassekampen

[Ben Allport @Ohthere2_0]

@BeccaMerkelbach Currently waiting on one myself! 😅

[Ben Allport @Ohthere2_0]

Article double whammy! Excited to share my new article with Scandinavian Journal of History.
It traces a weird opposition of east & north in my beloved Ohthere's Voyage & other accounts of Norwegian geography from the 9thC to the 19thC
https://t.co/zwY1lBsuhf
#medievaltwitter

[Ben Allport @Ohthere2_0]

You're right, technically I can't definitely prove that an 11thC Viking in North America didn't use Elder Futhark, which went out of mainstream use centuries earlier, to write a modern Scandinavian place-name...

https://t.co/Dj6z95wSlT

[Ben Allport @Ohthere2_0]

And the winner for most creepy art installation goes to...

[Ben Allport @Ohthere2_0]

@Rusticulus_R If you mean the whole statue then yes 😉

[Ben Allport @Ohthere2_0]

Weekend passed without incident.

[Ben Allport @Ohthere2_0]

The disadvantage of deactivating Facebook two years ago was forgetting that this deeply silly photo exists... Very glad to have stumbled across it again😆

[Samuel Cardwell @sw_cardwell]

Delighted to announce the publication of my article on ideas of evangelisation in the OE 'Andreas' in @ParergonJournal 39.1! I'm really proud of this piece and so grateful to the eds Rosalind Smith and Sarah Ross, along with former ed Susan Broomhall!

https://t.co/2NuF60Z1GM