Daily Medieval

Yesterday's post, " This Too Shall Pass ," tells about a particular poem from the Exeter Book with the theme that sorrowful o...

Yesterday's post told the story of Wayland Smith as told in the Völundarkviða . I mentioned the plight in which he left Böðvildr, the d...

Wayland Smith was a legendary figure in Germanic culture. The earliest and most-detailed origin for his legend is in the Völundarkviða (Ol...

Fastitocalon is the name given to a sea creature in an Old English poem called "The Whale." This time I will with poetic art rehea...

As best we can determine, Symposius was a 4th- or 5th-century author of the Ænigmata , a collection of 100 Latin riddles. The oldest known...

The Vercelli Book, opened to "The Dream of the Rood" The post on The Exeter Book mentioned that it was one of four sources of...

"The Wanderer" in the Exeter Book The Exeter Book was mentioned as the source of two poems about St. Guthlac . It holds much m...

Want to own a speaker that plugs into your laptop and depicts the ordination of Guthlac? You can! Today is the feast day of an English...