Daily Medieval

Brendan of Clonfert was born 484CE in County Kerry, southwest Ireland. Fostered by a nun, at the age of six he was sent to St. Jarlath's...

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...

The Saga of Erik the Red  is not about Erik the Red. Erik is in  it, as well as his son Leif Ericsson, but it focuses more on the actions of...

Of course, there were inhabitants in North America when the Norse arrived. The Saga of the Greenlanders  tells of an Icelander named Bjarni ...

A 1537 rendition of Thule On New Year's Eve 2018, a NASA probe transmitted pictures of Ultima Thule, an object 4 billion miles fro...

Pope Paschal II speaking to Anselm of Canterbury On 13 August 1099, a Cluniac monk from northwest of Rome named Ranierius was named Pop...

My research (or just day-to-day life) sometimes bring me details that I wish I'd known when I wrote a certain blog post, or that I thi...

The Medieval Warm Period (MWP) existed from 950/1000 to 1200/1250 CE (estimates vary because of the difficulty in collecting accurate data a...