| Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 |
1:33 pm
[donals_girl]
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Girdle Hangers
I know this is short notice, but if anyone is interested in Anglo-Saxon girdle hangers, you might like to mosey on down to the Arch and Anth museum on Downing Street for 1pm tomorrow (Friday). Why? Because yours truly will be giving a ten minute talk on... Anglo-Saxon girdle hangers! Don't know what a girdle hanger is? Come along and you'll find out. |
| Sunday, March 9th, 2008 |
8:13 pm
[physicalll]
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Hi, I'm a sixteen year old AS level student from London. I want to apply to do ASNAC at Cambridge, but I know nothing about it other than what the web page says. I figured here would be the place to ask. Any information, pros or cons, would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance. |
| Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 |
4:34 pm
[filius_lupi]
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| Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 |
8:22 am
[stonedsamurai]
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ASNC represents Cambridge ...
I'd been meaning to post for ages to point out that if you go to the Cambridge University homepage the main picture is the beautiful Geraldine reading Kuno Meyer's Fianaigecht, and on either side of her is the back of the rather less beautiful ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) egg_shaped_fred and me, stonedsamurai. So, the first thing anyone interested in Cambridge University sees on the website is 3 ASNCs and a Kuno Meyer book. Hooray! No doubt they'll change the picture now ... |
| Thursday, October 25th, 2007 |
7:02 pm
[filius_lupi]
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ASNaC Pub!
Tomorrow, the Castle, from 5! Come and get ASNaCed! |
| Saturday, October 6th, 2007 |
12:16 am
[stonedsamurai]
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| Thursday, September 13th, 2007 |
1:55 pm
[filius_lupi]
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| Sunday, September 2nd, 2007 |
1:03 pm
[donals_girl]
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So earlier this week I was on holiday in Amsterdam, and I happened to see the DVD of Beowulf & Grendel for only 5 euros. So, naturally, I bought it, and I watched it the other day. I really enjoyed most of it, I have to say. I did wonder how they were going to turn two nights' action (it only covers the fights with the Grendelkin) into a two-hour film, but I think that they did it without plot-holes. On the whole, the changes they made were understandable and worked quite well within their own context. I liked the way Grendel looked - the shape of a man, but a lot bigger - and Grendel's mother was even better. My big problem came near the end, when in the space of five minutes we had the two worst sex scenes that I have ever witnessed. They were unconvincing mechanically and not satisfying in terms of plot and character. |
| Tuesday, July 10th, 2007 |
2:17 pm
[filius_lupi]
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Sutton Hoo
Anyone in striking distance of Sutton Hoo (it's easily accessible from Cambridge or London) may want to wander along this weekend for: SUTTON HOO THROUGH THE AGES: From the twilight of the Roman Empire to the Norman ConquestVenue: SUTTON HOO (in Suffolk) Date(s): Saturday 14 to Sunday 15 July 2007 Description: Living History spectacular! Invasions, raids, Saxon burial rites, interactive displays & activities for all ages. Stand well back during combat displays! Notes: Highlight of our Year of Craftsmanship Ousekjarr, the Cambridge branch of The Vikings and some friends from Bedford, Essex and elsewhere will be providing a living history encampment, storytelling, skirmishes, archery and lots of groovy things representing Angles, Saxons, Vikings etc from the eighth to tenth centuries. I've been on fairly good fighting form this season, so who knows what you might see!!? Current Music: Saxon - "Let Me Feel Your Power" (!) |
| Wednesday, June 20th, 2007 |
11:45 am
[filius_lupi]
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Garden Party
The Annual ASNC garden party will be taking place on Wednesday, 20 June 2007 from 6pm to 8.00pm on the Old Hall Lawn, Newnham College. ... that's today... See people there, I expect! Current Music: Crystallion - "Some long overblown title" |
| Tuesday, May 1st, 2007 |
8:21 am
[stonedsamurai]
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| Wednesday, April 18th, 2007 |
4:12 pm
[stonedsamurai]
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Anglo-Saxon herbal magic
This may interest people ... Sunday 22 April, 11am-12.30pm - Anglo-Saxon Plants and Pot Herbs at West Stow Country Park, Bury St Edmunds. An interesting walk around with experimental archaeologist/botanist Rachel Ballantyne. £3 adults/£1 children. Booking essential. Call 01284 728718 or see www.weststow.org |
| Saturday, April 14th, 2007 |
4:55 pm
[stonedsamurai]
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4:53 pm
[stonedsamurai]
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| Thursday, April 5th, 2007 |
3:53 pm
[filius_lupi]
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Easter Weekend at Lincoln Castle!
In the unlikely event that anyone can make it, come to Lincoln Castle between 11 and 5 on Sunday or 10 and 5 on Monday to see "The Vikings" in action! There will be a full LHE, dark-age fashion parade, battle (reconquest of the Danelaw, 942) - it's going to be just plain awesome. Don't miss it if you can help it! Current Mood:  happy |
| Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 |
9:38 am
[donals_girl]
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| Tuesday, March 13th, 2007 |
8:42 am
[filius_lupi]
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Vimmen, Violence and Vikings! And some mice...
Film Tonight!This pm there'll be an ASNaC Film showing! Details of Where/When should be found by e-mail, or just loitering in the Common Room until Matthias shows his face. The film will be: Stara Basn Kiedy Slonce Bylo BogiemThe Old Story When The Sun Was GodA Jerzego Hoffmana film. Starring:Marina Aleksandrowa Michal Zebrowski Daniel Olbrychski Bohdan Stupka Malgorzata Foremniak Vimmen, Violence and Vikings!Popiel is not a nice man, and wants his son to succeed him as prince, but then his wife is really nuts. Ziemowit, Piast's son, is a nice man, but used to be a Viking. Dziwa is destined to become some sort of pagan nun. The Guardian gets annoyed because the tribal chiefs are all idiots. Some random woman takes all her clothes off. Some Vikings turn up. There's an insane crone. It's amazing. Poland is all the Vikings' fault. Be there, or be Celtic! 107 minutes, in Polish with English subtitles. Current Music: Wagner - "Libestod" from Tristan & Isolde |
| Friday, February 23rd, 2007 |
3:07 pm
[filius_lupi]
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ASNaC Society Committee Change!
Yep, it's tonight, and as I'm ahead on my Scandi presentation right now, I'll be in the Castle from 5 'till late. Reginae mortuus sunt! Vivant Reginae! Current Music: Spray - "Run With Us" |
| Thursday, February 8th, 2007 |
8:52 pm
[stonedsamurai]
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Urgent help needed for brainless writer.
Help! What is a good word for describing the approach where historians judge what happened before in terms of what came afterwards? Aaarrghhh! Not teleological, not anachronistic ... double aarrrgh! The context is early C.20th scholars of medieval visionary texts viewing them in terms of Dante's Commedia. |
| Friday, January 12th, 2007 |
10:33 am
[filius_lupi]
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Pubbage!
I for one intend to go to the Castle tonight, though perhaps not quite as early as usual... see folks there? |
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