Daily Medieval

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...

...are the hands of a healer." This line from The Lord of the Rings  sounds fantastical, but as a first-rate historian and medievalist,...

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 first and much-talked -about poem in the  Poetic Edda  is the  Völuspá  ("Prophecy of the Seeress"). In it, a seeress tells Od...

The Poetic Edda  (author[s] unknown) is our name for a collection of narrative poems in Old Norse. It is distinct from the Prose Edda whose...

Written about 1220, the Prose Edda  by Snorri Sturluson is a detailed telling of the Scandinavian creation of the world, mythological storie...

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....