Could Cornwall join Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England as nations of the UK? Dydh dha warn meur ras! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rha1...

Mûske is as intrigued to learn about the identity of the Early Medieval Warni as I am.

A view of Amsterdam, by Jacob van Ruisdael painted between 1665-1670.

Duran Duran??

The Festival of Archaeology is *free* to attend. Come one, come all! What better way to spend a weekend than out in the Northumbrian landscape, immersed in top-notch archaeology?!

VERY excited to announce together with @alexharvv.bsky.social that we’ve written/are writing a book on the Age of the North Sea - the edges of the Mare Frisicum on the build up to the Viking Age! youtube.com/watch?v=F_eQ...

Never change professor Cunk, never change ;)

Krêftstêf - POWER-STAFF - should absolutely be the Frisian translation of power bank.

For #FindsFriday the unique and remarkable Khazar coin inscribed "Moses is God's messenger", from the huge Spillings hoard found on Gotland in 1999. The coin (dated c. 837) is the only physical proof that Khazars converted to Judaism. From the Gotlands Museum book "The Spillings Hoard"

Biology textbook? No, an Old Frisian manuscript.

Fan ús moaie Dokkum oant ús moaie Snits... Fryslân. Wat in plak. Wat in minsken.

#IMC26 #IMC2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social ATTENTION ALL NORTH SEA DWELLERS I and @history-w-hilbert.bsky.social are looking for fellow Frisian-obsessed archaeologists, linguists, historians, what-have-you, to present at IMC 2026 in Leeds. We want YOU to wow us with emergent research: details below

Wie hiel moai om ris by de Fryske Akademy werom te kommen, perfoarst ek as Nelleke IJssennagger oan it wurd is oer de Wytsingetiid yn Frisia! Soks haw ik gauris heard, mar eltse kear binne der wer nije fynsten en nije ynformaasje yn it ljocht kaam!

Low German, Latin, and Old Frisian manuscripts from Frisia.

Success! And with a now-signed copy of An Introduction to Old Frisian we go to work with the translations!

The Old Frisian translations have begun!

Frisians in Anglo-Saxon England - a topic close to my heart!

Old Frisian Summer School day 1: lectures from Rolf Bremmer and Arlen Versloot. Groningen is a Frisian city once more!

Old Frisian Summer School has kicked off with Professor Rolf Bremmer’s lecture on the scope of Old Frisian!

It reint en reint It hâld gjin skoft Alles wurdt wiet Wetter hat nocht

Just changed the name of the file while it was open and the presentation for my lecture is gone! That’s me telt never to edit an opened file 😤🫣

Oh hey, it's almost #IMC2025 time! Why not saunter over to our Thursday morning session on early medieval Flanders (organised by @ddefries.bsky.social), and hear me discuss/plead why we should pay more attention to the region in broader Viking Age scholarship?

“He’s coming, pretend we’re asleep!”

Frisian names that aged well: FOKKE KINKE LOLLE BENTE SIKKE

Now that is pretty Gothic.

I love the Frisian word EAMELER - “ant”. It comes from EAMELJE - “to complain/mumble”. So in Frisian “ant” and “complainer” are the same: EAMELER.

Old Frisian (1300): hwat Middle Frisian (1450): haet E. Modern Frisian (1650): het Modern Frisian (1950): hwat Modern Frisian (2000): wat We almost went full circle.

How it happened. Sa gie it.

Every time I see this seventeenth-century depiction of King Redbad I’m convinced I’ve met him in every English pub’s beer garden, slowly turning more crimson as the day progresses.

In the week of Saint Boniface’s feast day, North Sea Nexus returns to Frisia, where his mission began and ended and where, twelve centuries later, local priest Titus Brandsma helped establish a place of pilgrimage in his memory.

The Anglo-Scandinavian stone from my neighbouring village of Ovingham, pertaining to show either a hunting scene or a depiction of Fenrir eating the sun, and Heimdallr blowing the Gjallarhorn at Ragnarök. Churches once again being the repositories of local goodies of historic interest.

The absolutely fabulous church in Helmsley, North Yorkshire.

A great joy to catch up with my fellow North Sea enthusiast @alexharvv.bsky.social in both the scola and on the mead benches of Eoforwic. Interviews and announcements to follow!

And then the thesis was done.

Dikke mic

“Haven’t you read enough about Indo-European cosmogonic sacrifice for one day?”

Jan te Compe (1713-1761) maakte veel topografische tekeningen, maar met zijn geschilderde 18e eeuwse stadsgezichten kreeg hij veruit de grootste bekendheid. Dit schilderij ‘de Munttoren gezien vanaf het Singel’ is hier een voorbeeld van.

Never knew renowned Old Norse scholar Ursula Dronke was a Geordie (albeit born a Mackem). ⬛◻️⬛◻️⬛

Interested in Old Frisian, Old English's closest kin? The Old Frisian Summer School, a coop of @unigroningen.bsky.social and @ox.ac.uk, is designed for students/PhDs/early career academics in Germanic languages. The 4th OFSS will be in Groningen from 7-11 July. Visit us at www.rug.nl/education/su...

Almost 5 years ago since I was invited up to the International Polyglot Convention in Edinburgh to give one of my first public talks: www.youtube.com/watch?v=giOE...

The site of Yeavering in Northumberland, once a royal centre of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria, and the best example of a pagan cult site from early-medieval Britain. Ad Gefrin in Old English, it's now a whiskey distillery near Wooler with a cracking little museum. Worth a visit!

Cat has finally caught a mouse.

NIEUW-ZEELANDSE TOPPER Whichever Dutchman named the New Zealand Scaup must have just loved this duck. It's also called a 'black teal' or pāpango in Māori, which means 'to be somewhat black'. It was ranked 'New Zealand's chillest bird' in 2018.

Lots of interesting artefacts coming out of the ground in Fryslân, courtesy of metal detectorists. For the Anglophones (Saxophones and Jutophones) among you, I'll summarise in English in a quick thread: www.omropfryslan.nl/fy/nijs/1727...

This was one of those publications that I stayed up to finishing reading. Fascinating discovery!

Saw an article recently that many Frisians speak to their pets in Dutch… not this cat! Okkerdeis seach ik in artikel oer Friezen dy't Nederlânsk prate mei de húsbisten... docht dizze net! #PraatMarFrysk

Before the spelling reform of 1945, West Frisian spelling still showed the 'h' in HWAT (what) just as it does in English though the position has changed. Today, it follows the phonological spelling of WAT. I think about that a lot. Hwat was it all for?

It appears the kitten is also interested in my notes on Danish bog deposits of the third century AD.

Fryslân is getting Frisian-language traffic signs for the first time. But how has it taken so long? www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnrA...

Coming tonight... (whenever it finishes uploading) TOLKIEN and the FRISIANS, how the great author was inspired by a legendary tale from Migration Era Frisia and influenced several characters and scenes in THE LORD OF THE RINGS