The collocation 'greiða atróðr' (row hard, especially for an attack at sea) is common in the sagas, and is also found in ch. 65 of the Saga of the Earls of Orkney. 🧵 3/3 onp.ku.dk/onp/onp.php?...

... 'You will also not want that said of you that you lie here like a cat in a pile of stones'. Kálfr takes the hint and both of them 'greiddu atróðr' (rowed harder). They had some success but the battle was inconclusive in the end. 🧵 2/3

In ch. 26 of the Saga of the Earls of Orkney, Þorfinnr's attack on Rǫgnvaldr Brúsason in the Pentland Firth was not going well, so he goaded his ally and kinsman-by-marriage Kálfr Árnason into supporting him with a curious comparison ... 🧵1/3

The web applications for ONP continue to be unstable. This appears to be due to continuing unprecedented demand on the services that run on these servers. (We've been monitoring the situation and since yesterday there are on average over 30 connections to the database every second!)

A bizarre runic carving in northern Ontario. Not medieval, but younger, 1800s, the Lord’s Prayer carved in bedrock, possibly by a Swedish worker of the Hudson’s Bay Company, and buried under inches of topsoil. Good article. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Runologist Henrik Williams, quoted in the article, has also done a lot of work on other North American runic finds, see some other examples here: www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di...

The Dictionary of Old Norse Prose is a lexicographical miracle, so it’s frustrating to read that LLM web crawlers are rendering its website harder to use.

Very interesting (if also frustrating!) to see knock on effects of gen AI’s increased use on other websites/internet resources such as the Dictionary of Old Norse Prose…

If you're interested, the main culprit seems to be ChatGPT's web crawler. This hasn't been a problem with other web crawlers such as Google, Bing, etc. The difference seems to be that web searches aren't particularly interested in very slow, data-heavy pages.

Our web services are experiencing very heavy demand at the moment, which is at times overloading the servers. We should get an upgrade soon but until then you may experience downtime.

I got this letter today too. Very saddened to see this takeover :(

Intensive PhD course Ecocritical Theory: Literature, Culture and Environment www.uia.no/om-uia/fakul... At the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway, 26–28 November 2025. Can be taken as a 2 or 5 ECTS course. Registration open now. #envhum #ecocrit

“Smoke from Canadian forest fires can be seen in the sky over Denmark” Tonight I noticed the sky was hazy and the sun bright orangey-red as it was about to set and it reminded me of forest fire season back in Canada. Turns out that was exactly what it was 😢

Copenhagen ❤️

Nice walk yesterday morning to have a peek at Bølgen (The Wave) apartments in Vejle.

Great day so far at Nordic Lexicography Conference

Og sidste på panelen har vi redaktør og leder i ONP Tarrin Wills: “Den digitale brug af præskriptiv normalisering i en historisk ordbog” (The digital use of prescriptive normalisation in a historical dictionary)

Nu fra ONPs redaktører Simonetta Battista og Johnny Lindholm, “ONP som deskriptiv og præskriptiv ressource” (ONP as a descriptive and prescriptive resource)

Nu begynder det første panel. Vi starter med Ellert Þór Jóhannsson, “Uformelle ord i Blöndals ordbog: En undersøgelse af ‘populær, daglig tale’” (Informal words in Blöndal’s dictionary: an investigation of ‘popular, everyday speech’)

Off to an early start today! Heading to Vejle in Jutland by train with my Dictionary colleagues for conference of the Nordisk forening for leksikografi (Nordic Lexicography Association)

Great to see this fascinating research published - congrats to Élodie Lévêque, @matthewcollins.bsky.social et al.

This sounds like a great citizen science opportunity in the humanities/history/paleography!

I think I might be a winter bather now?? 😱

Female scribes! Putting this on my reading list!

Old Norse word of the day for the first day of Lent: fasta

We're having issues with our database server today - hopefully ONP will be up again soon!

Come learn about Old Norse manuscripts with me and my colleagues at the Summer School in Scandinavian Manuscript Studies in Copenhagen this August #medievalsky

Snow day today in Denmark. Spent a beautiful afternoon at Louisiana Museum north of Copenhagen. This is the view from the gardens — on a clear day you can see Sweden across the sound.

I love this idea! Sundays have become my meal prep day too, usually some kind of stew or curry. I just set some sweet potatoes in the oven for this week’s curry.

My latest column for @thetls.bsky.social is about the 13th century poem Havelok the Dane, just rulership, and aggressive takeovers of government www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...

We present some results from our long-term work on the earliest #runestone found in an archaeologically datable context #runology: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

djúpshǫfn (sb. f.): 1 cits, e.g. fishing line // fiskesnøre ‘maðr rennir djúpshöfn ok bítr stórr flatr , er þeir kalla flyðru’ (GBp in Holm perg 5 fol) onp.ku.dk/o14676 #OldNorse

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Reposting for all the wordy people out there! Because who doesn't want an Old Norse word of the day?

Hey #medievalsky, the Dictionary of Old Norse Prose is now on Bluesky! Follow @onpdict.bsky.social for word of the day, solution to the previous day’s wordle, and occasional updates from our team of editors. Quoted here is today’s word of the day: eirketill ‘copper kettle’ #lexicography

Ok, Icelandic literature bluesky, I need your help: is there any example in a text of someone destroying a nithing pole?

Big skies and snow at the beach this afternoon

Me at the end of my first day at my new job as Senior Researcher at the Dictionary of Old Norse Prose — part of the Arnamagnæan Institute at the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen. Under that layer of jet lag fatigue, I’m really happy!

Brutal jet lag the past few days. Awake at 3am when I should be resting and recharging ahead of my first day of work!!

Happy new year — here’s to another year of curiosity and openness, expansion and personal growth, acceptance of self and others

I think it's going to take me a while to settle into this place. But in the meantime, hi! It's good to be here. 👋

Here I am, dipping my toes back into a place like this. Same old me.