Wormtalk and Slugspeak

The Tolkien Estate recently announced that J.R.R. Tolkien's translation of Beowulf will be released in May.  Since there seems to be a ...

Responding to people who have asked "Who buys physical CDs any more?" I have put Anglo-Saxon Aloud: Greatest Hits up on iTunes a...

Parent: I'm really proud of my daughter's success in medieval studies. It's amazing how she has learned these languages and kn...

Giving a talk at Swarthmore next week: "Tolkien and Beowulf : Towers and Ruins," Feb 26, at 8:00 p.m. in Science Center 101.

This was my first season coaching football. I learned a lot. I also came to love the game far more than I ever expected I would. This little...

Cuts from the in-progress book on Lexomics: The very best traditional philologists, people like Lapidge and Gretsch, can collect widely...

Every couple of years I team-teach the lit half of a "Connected" pair of classes with my friend, the mathematician Bill Goldbloom ...

For the overlapping parts, regular correlation coefficient is .349. Spearman's Rho is .357.  But all that changes a lot if you corre...

Turns out that you can find out stuff about Old English texts with just a simple formula: For any text of length n with a sub-segmen...

My son's first touchdown. 

In some of the Icelandic sagas in which he appears, Bjarni Brodd-Helgason is a generally peaceful man, even though he got the ...

I have a new lecture course out from Recorded Books' Modern Scholar series: How to Think: The Liberal Arts and Their Enduring Value ...