A not-quite-medieval post

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From BBC News: "Medieval mural of King Henry VIII uncovered in Somerset". The snarky voice in my head keeps saying, "How amazingly prescient! Some medieval painter managed to make a mural of an early modern king before the early modern era started!" Medievalists sometimes argue with our early modernist colleagues about when medieval ends and early modern begins, but no one puts Henry VIII in the Middle Ages—except, apparently, BBC News. The story is quite interesting, and the video fun to watch, if you ignore the huge blooper in the headline and once in the body of the item.

Meanwhile, the Chaucer blogger is at it again with "Fab-Lib: The Gentil Compaignye of Three". Read the whole thing. Really. You'll thank me later.

And from or_mabinogi: Beowulf sock pattern, for when you really want to get wrapped up in Old English.