Kennings in the Community

Hello everyone. In future Emma and Debbie will be posting from the Eight Legged Horse page. If you're interested in their future projects please follow them there!

Emma and Debbie are doing another Viking workshop as part of Words over Waltham Forest Literature Festival on Saturday. Come along!

http://wordsoverwalthamforest.co.uk/?tribe_events=how-to-write-like-a-viking-warrior

How to Write Like a Viking Warrior Whale-road, horse of the sea, battle-flame, mead of Odin…kennings are compact, surreal, riddle-like phrases peculiar to Viking and Anglo-Saxon verse. Eight Legged Horse warmly invite you to join a ...

Distant Voices: from Iceland to Viking Wirral at the Grosvenor Museum:

http://bit.ly/18zgEJP

"I had the opportunity to sail along the coast on a replica Viking boat, and view the land from the sea. I imagined Gudrid huddled, night after cold cramped night, beneath her boat's half-deck, short of both food and fresh water, her skin raw with sores from wearing perpetually wet clothing..."

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/nancy-campbell/susan-richardson-writing-_b_2831291.html

Susan Richardson - Writing in the Language of Ice

Modern Poets on Viking Poetry anthology :D

Modern Poets on Viking Poetry An anthology of responses to skaldic poetry, produced as part of the cultural translation project Modern Poets on Viking Poetry

London Edition

http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/news/magical-books-from-the-middle-ages-to-middle-earth

NEW EXHIBITION: Magical Books: from the Middle Ages to Middle-earth The Bodleian’s summer exhibition, Magical Books: from the Middle Ages to Middle-earth, opens to the public on Thursday, 23 May and will feature the work of five celebrated authors of children’s fantasy literature: C.S. LEWIS, J.R.R. TOLKIEN, SUSAN COOPER, ALAN GARNER and PHILIP PULLMAN.

Path of the field-lobster ~ 'Líknarbraut'

So you think you're a riddle-smith? Resources from the Kennings in the Community project are now available online!

Kennings in the Community | Modern Poets on Viking Poetry Kennings in the CommunityWelcome to Kennings in the Community, a resource for teachers, poets and any interested members of the public who want to learn about the scope for the use of kennings as a stimulus for poetic creativity. Kennings are riddle-like phrases used by Viking and Anglo-Saxon poets…

http://www.koboldpress.com/k/front-page7831.php #.UX2I4srhfIk

89 Colorful Kennings / Kobold Press Monsters and Magic for D&D, Pathfinder, Dragon Age, and Other Fantasy Roleplaying Systems

http://asnoc.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/word-breath-and-vomit-oral-competition-in-old-english-and-old-norse-literature/

Word, Breath, and Vomit: Oral Competition in Old English and Old Norse Literature Word, Breath, and Vomit: Oral Competition in Old English and Old Norse Literature Robin Waugh Oral Tradition, Volume 10, Number 2 In oral society (and in literate, but more secretively), the indivi...

Line-up announced for the Cambridge and London MPVP readings :D

Modern poets on Viking poetry: readings! | Modern Poets on Viking Poetry Modern poets on Viking poetry: readings!Leave a reply a selection of poets will read their responses to skaldic verse as part of the cultural translation project Modern Poets on Viking Poetry ~ readers tbathese events are FREE and ALL ARE WELCOMECambridge ~ Friday 26 April, 7 for 7.30pmJudith E Wils...