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From abyssinia4077, Five Questions Meme

Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile."
I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity.
Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions. ( Below the cut because I'm not brief )

NEW FIND! Here's the news sent around by Jack Niles, the incoming president of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists:
"Fast-Breaking News department:"

"Members of ISAS still buzzing about the sensational Staffordshire Hoard discovered recently in the U.K. may not be aware of another startling archaeological discovery made this past summer. A new round of excavations sponsored by Roskilde Museum at Lejre, Denmark (corresponding to the Beowulf poet's "Heorot") has revealed yet another hall-complex located there, in addition to the ones discovered in 1986-88 and 2004-05.

"Of special interest is a Viking-Age hall that, at 60m in length, is the largest prehistoric building now known from southern Scandinavia. (The hall at Yeavering is about 25m long, in comparison.) Surprisingly, the newly-found hall is built right on top of a grave, while other high-end graves have been found outside the hall. These excavations have been described as "epoch-making" in their implications. Lejre is now being compared to Jelling (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) in terms of its significance for early Danish history.

"Attached is my translation of a pair of articles, reporting on this development, that are currently posted in Danish on the Roskilde Museum web site. One is a press report based on a television program that was broadcast last month. It may be some while before more systematic accounts of the excavations are published."

Stargate fans, do note the Asgard reference!
( Niles's translations of articles, with links to originals, below the cut )

I don't normally read this strip—it doesn't usually amuse me this much—but check out Dinosaur Comics from a month ago. Ha!

Oh, for heaven's sake—I got my information from a big e-mail list, and I can't find a press release in English. I can't even find a press release in a language I'm competent to read. I can find two articles in Norwegian, and my very basic Old Norse won't extend to cover that without an amount of time I'm not willing to invest, but here's one of them.

Basically, what I heard is that this stone was just discovered (does that Norwegian article say just last Thursday?), the first major rune-stone found since the 1940s. It was in somebody's garden. There are some burial sites that have been excavated nearby, so they are checking to see if there's a grave there. The stone had fallen face-down on the runes; 60 of the 63 are still highly legible. (Boy, I hope this isn't a hoax or anything. I know a grad student who, with three others, carved a rune stone in a Minnesota swamp some years back. They did it to see if they could and how it would look, not with the intent to deceive, but someone found it and made much of it and then was furious when they told her they'd done it.) Wikipedia already has an entry, though I can't vouch for it.

Best of all: the Flickr photos.

Yay me! Yesterday was my two-year anniversary on LiveJournal! I meant to post about it, but I got distracted...partly because I was busy commenting on other people's posts. So it goes.

In more good blog news: Geoffrey has returned to Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog! He seems to have returned in May after such a long absence I had stopped checking his blog regularly; his last post was April, 2008, and that was the first since February, 2008. I hope he will not leave us in the lurch again!

Link from redbyrd_sgfic: "Little Bunny Foofoo" redone as Norse epic. A must-read.

Killer (the bunny in my icon) declared upon hearing it that his name is now Fúfu! For clarity's sake, I explained to Brilliant Husband, "Not eff-oh-oh-eff-oh-oh but eff-you eff-you."
"Yes," he said, and then I realized what I had just said.

From quarryquest:

You Are a Playwright

You are a highly literate wordsmith. You love both reading and writing. You are also a natural storyteller. You can turn a mediocre anecdote into a riveting tale. You find people and all aspects of life fascinating. No topic is off limits for you. In modern times, you would make a good filmmaker or novelist.

That's . . . not what I expected.

It's not like I have loads of cool icons. It is, however, very much like I'm still enjoying my expanded userpic space! So I'll do the meme all the cool kids are doing...if I can do this right ( Some of my icons, let me show you them )

Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate it today!

From pepper_field:

Meme instructions:
1. Reply to this post and I will pick five of your icons
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose if you damn well feel like it.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.

( My post )

I had pretty much stopped reading Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog because it has been updated so rarely the last year or two. Brilliant Husband alerted me: there have now been two updates in the last month.

Radical change! Read New Order first! Even my non-Chaucerian friends need to read the answers to questions 4-7 here. Trust me. You'll thank me later (as Monk would say--that's Adrian Monk, not Chaucer's Monk, whom I wouldn't trust farther than I can throw, and I couldn't get Chaucer's Monk off the floor).

I must post a response, I think, but I'm not sure what to say!