Asst Prof (Old English & Old Norse). Book TRANSLATING HELL (2026). Phil-lol-ogist, word-lover, pun-makar, collector of dictionaries, glamorer of grammar.
Stephen Hopkins
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We've got something for everyone: Latin and Greek apocrypha, bickering over canonicity, syncretism, and shape shifting Satans!
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We've got something for everyone: Latin and Greek apocrypha, bickering over canonicity, syncretism, and shape shifting Satans!
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If you enjoy obscure historical punnery, might I humbly proffer my new book:
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Stephen Hopkins
Stephen Hopkins
This heavy handed of an allegory would make even Eddie Spenser spit his coffee out
Stephen Hopkins
If a Viking screamed "aaaaaah!" as an Irish charioteer ran him down, the Old Irish speaker would probably think "yup" because the Old Irish word for chariot was "á"
This Viking ship head cannot even (Franz Stassen, can 1914 for the Ring cycle)
ca. 700: northumbria was the powerhouse of the (monastic) cell
Etymology: "yasss, slay"
or, in winter "yasss, sleigh"
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