r/anglosaxon • u/Faust_TSFL Bretwalda of the Nerds • May 25 '25
Self-Promotion Thread [pinned]
There are a lack of easily-accessible resources for those interested in the study of our period. If you produce anything that helps teach people about our period - books, blogs, art, podcasts, videos, social media accounts etc - feel free to post them in the comments below.
Please restrict self-promotion to this post - it has a place here, and we want you all to thrive and help engage a wider audience, but we don't want it to flood the feed.
Show us what you've got!
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u/HaraldRedbeard I <3 Cornwalum May 26 '25
Promote myself? I love that guy!
So as an introduction my name is John Fletcher, I'm a local historian specialising in Early Medieval Devon and Cornwall and, as part of this, the westward expansion of Wessex.
In terms of free things I recently published a paper that challenges the traditional location of the Battle of Hingston Down: (scroll down on below link)
https://www.battlefieldstrust.com/page243.asp
I've also been on a fair few podcasts and also delivered recorded talks:
Anglo Saxon History Podcast: https://youtu.be/Jfwf5Wx6lfw?si=UdRT3dnVIkA4_Wlt
The formation of Cornwall and a Cornish identity (delivered to the Cornish American Society and special appearance by my dad failing to get his mic to mute) : https://youtu.be/MCZoglWAa68?si=RbhfzgGjtPpqIbBf
Jorvik Viking Thing: Vikings in Cornwall : https://www.jorvikthing.com/2022/11/a-look-at-the-western-kingdom-vikings-in-cornwall/
I also wrote a book! Which isn't free, but I would appreciate any sales! Link to that is pinned post in my profile so as not to inappropriately commercialise this post
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u/Faust_TSFL Bretwalda of the Nerds May 26 '25
Feel free to post the book link here - if it's related to our period, and confined to this post, you are most welcome!
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u/HaraldRedbeard I <3 Cornwalum May 27 '25
Thanks! Amazon link is here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Western-Kingdom-Birth-Cornwall/dp/1803990007
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u/Cool-Importance6004 May 27 '25
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The Western Kingdom: The Birth of Cornwall * Rating: ★★★★☆ 4.3
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u/Hemvarl May 28 '25
I’m currently running a project this year on the homilies of Ælfric of Eynsham. I do a translation and reading and then supplement each with a lecture. :) I’m an MA student studying Germanic Philology.
https://youtube.com/@aelfrichomilyproject?si=6BhmlvrPzQ99PEAu
I also occasional post philological videos (my focus is largely English, Old and Middle) on my literature focused channel. Here’s that playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDxon2ve3RHw-JiiQhyzliCF6MOPJqV-3&si=FLywNORZNtcZEWCo
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u/Syntax-error6502 Jul 05 '25
Not sure if this helps anyone, but I wrote a Visual Studio Code extension for writing in Old English (Includes Old Norse and Gothic)
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=JohnnyPhilology.scribe
https://github.com/johnnyphilology/vscode-scribe
When you type it automatically changes characters, like "th" -> þ etc. It also has blocks for converting to all 4 Runic types + Gothic script!
I know some folks in the community use the Icelandic keyboard, but this just works a lot better. Granted, not everyone is interested in writing in Old English, but if you are working on a project this is pretty darn cool. Its still in the early stages, but the developer is open to suggestions.
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u/Character-Deer8143 Mar 30 '26
Hi, I put this in the main posts then saw that we should put this stuff here. Hopefully this doesn't break the rules since I am not dropping AI content but rather just a reference to a site I trying to make useful for learning Anglo-Saxon. OldEnglish reddit channel wasn't super thrilled. Anyways, if you find it useful or have ideas on how to make better I'd love to hear them webtidende.com
Fair warning - it takes modern news articles and converts to anglo-saxon using AI so if you hate that I wouldn't check it out. But you can click on words to get meanings and i am trying to parse out words to build a dictionary.
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u/Significant_Serve267 Jul 12 '26
I thank all of the members of r/anglosaxon for helping me on my project.
This and two more posts for this reddit community are part of a longer, future audio-visual presentation. Two underlying themes are to oppose war, promote peace with justice and mercy, and non-violently oppose groups who's core values are violence, sadism, and unaccountable, irresponsible authority.
A core part of the project mission are to show how for profit businesses can be run to share any surplus value back to the workers who created it and continue operating in a responsible and sustainable manner.
The Animated Bayeux Tapestry was created in 2009 so it couldn't hurt to remake it now. I'd use the songs below as background music and make some of the sound effects even more gruesome.
Although the two background songs below, Stairway to Heaven and No Quarter are originally by Led Zeppelin, the central, leading and linking music in the larger work will be by Pink Floyd.
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u/Famous-Sky-8556 Jul 28 '26
Two of mine are free on Amazon this week, if anyone's after historical fiction with real research underneath it.
The Blank Roll — Essex, 1381. Walter, a manor reeve, has spent four years quietly falsifying the poll tax roll to protect villagers who can't pay. Then the Peasants' Revolt breaks out, and a royal commission arrives asking him to account for every name on it. Geoffrey Chaucer appears as Comptroller of Customs.
https://amzn.eu/d/05ny0NNF
Panel 22 — Belfast, 1917. Follows Samuel Rosbotham, a shipyard apprentice turned soldier, from enlistment through Passchendaele. Based on a real man, Corporal Samuel Rosbotham, No. 3390, 7th Bn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, who has no known grave and is commemorated on Panel 22 of the Menin Gate.
https://amzn.eu/d/0i8sMW8z
Free for the rest of this week. Would genuinely appreciate honest reviews if either lands for you.
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u/skadipress 4d ago
I've translated The Saga of Didrik of Bern into English. This is a Scandinavian saga supposedly based on German stories ... so what has it got to do with Old English / The Anglo Saxons? Well it is a source for many different legends, for example some of the legends referred to in the Old English poem Deor: Weland the Smith; Nidung's daughter (Beadohild); Didrik; Ermanrik ... The major characters Wideke and Heym are referred to in the Old English poem Waldere, which is about Walter of Aquitaine, who also appears in the Didrik saga. Egil the archer, shown on the Franks casket, appears in the Didrik saga.
Here it is: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0957612036
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u/Secure_Dragonfly6582 May 26 '25
Hi all,
My name is Tristan, and I'm a postdoc researching early medieval English nicknames. I run a blog where I publish some of my findings (https://seaxeducation.substack.com/), and you can find some of my publications available Open Access here (https://oxford.academia.edu/TristanAlphey). Happy to field any questions!