Daily Medieval

Wayland was a legendary figure whose name and fame stretched across the entire Germanic world, referred to in stories from the Norse, Frisia...

There is a major source of Scandinavian legend called Hrolf Kraki's Saga . King Hrolf, supposedly a nephew of Hrothgar—the king mentione...

The Northern European fascination with bears led to heroes like the subject of the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf . There are enough legends invol...

The previous post ended with a riddle about a hero's name that you all know. This blog has mentioned the poem  Beowulf  before in the co...

There's an episode of The West Wing  in which Bartlett asks a retired English teacher if she made her students "read Chaucer in th...

This is a slightly different tack for DailyMedieval, but many fans of his fiction are unaware of his career as a medievalist. John Rona...

Tolkien in his study Time to break one of my rules and discuss a 20th century event. Today is the 41st anniversary of the death of J....

[This is Part 1; the other 3 parts address Gothic Architecture, the Gothic Revival, and Fiction.] From the Middle Ages until 1974, the Kin...

Sir Robert Bruce Cotton was born 22 January, 1570 (or 1571). Too late to be part of the Middle Ages, but still a subject for this blog; you&...