Isle of Wonder

It started with being a dumping ground for my extraneous projects in Medieval Studies while I was in university, now it is whatever subject I am moved by regarding literature, history or language.

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Walter Map and Vampires in the Middle Ages

The first thing that Bella did in Twilight , upon discovering that her new boyfriend was a vampire, was to go on Wikipedia and look up ...

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Walter Map on Bernard de Clairvaux

Walter Map was born c1140 in Hereford County, England. He was a Welshman by origin but a Norman aristocrat and a friend of Geraldus C...

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Beowulf, part 3

It is odd that Beowulf survives the massacre on the Rhine river and returns home and is accepted by the community in spite of the death...

Sunday, July 27, 2008

Beowulf Revisited

Every time I go to the video store lately, it seems the animated version Beowulf beckons to me from the shelf. I am resisting. The i...

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The Red Witch: Southern Ontario, Canada; Heritage worker and Researcher. M.A. in Medieval Studies.

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