Tell St Erkenwald not to bother coming today
May 7, 2026 at 12:29 AM
Tell St Erkenwald not to bother coming today
A fabulous forthcoming event celebrating the Middle English poem St Erkenwald: 27 April 2025
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The Greatest Middle English Poem, LIVE — A Reading of Erkenwald – Soulton Hall
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December 18, 2024 at 6:14 PM
A fabulous forthcoming event celebrating the Middle English poem St Erkenwald: 27 April 2025
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First post. Meet my glorious floof-beasts, Erkenwald and Evangeline (aka Wallie and Eva).
November 10, 2024 at 6:06 PM
First post. Meet my glorious floof-beasts, Erkenwald and Evangeline (aka Wallie and Eva).
There's also a live rendition of a modern English translation of St Erkenwald here:
youtu.be/zAyCY6SurHg?...
#allliterative #poetry
youtu.be/zAyCY6SurHg?...
#allliterative #poetry
ERKENWALD | The Greatest Poem in Middle English
YouTube video by Byrga Geniht
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April 30, 2025 at 11:43 PM
There's also a live rendition of a modern English translation of St Erkenwald here:
youtu.be/zAyCY6SurHg?...
#allliterative #poetry
youtu.be/zAyCY6SurHg?...
#allliterative #poetry
spent all afternoon translating Saint Erkenwald…. No time for fem TouKei….
October 20, 2024 at 8:29 PM
spent all afternoon translating Saint Erkenwald…. No time for fem TouKei….
The Saxon arch in the church of All Hallows by the Tower, London. Discovered after church very badly damaged during the Blitz, dates to late 7thC & incorporates Roman floor tiles in top of arch. The first church founded on the site in 675 by Bishop Erkenwald #sacon #anglosaxon #allhallowsbythetower
March 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The Saxon arch in the church of All Hallows by the Tower, London. Discovered after church very badly damaged during the Blitz, dates to late 7thC & incorporates Roman floor tiles in top of arch. The first church founded on the site in 675 by Bishop Erkenwald #sacon #anglosaxon #allhallowsbythetower
I realize it may not sound like it but this was an admiration post for my colleagues in archeology for your strength of mind in the face of uncertainty, I can barely tolerate the questions around the authorship of saint erkenwald
August 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I realize it may not sound like it but this was an admiration post for my colleagues in archeology for your strength of mind in the face of uncertainty, I can barely tolerate the questions around the authorship of saint erkenwald
Happy #Saturdark! Have a sweet wintery kiss between Quentin and Erkenwald.
December 28, 2024 at 10:25 PM
Happy #Saturdark! Have a sweet wintery kiss between Quentin and Erkenwald.
I confess myself...disappointed in 2 things today: that Earconwald is not in the #CofE calendar, given the importance of his cult in London; + that I can't share the 14c poem St. Erkenwald with you bc THE BL HAS NOT PUT THE MS BACK ONLINE. That's Harley 2250, for all the good it will do you.
St. Erkenwald (poem) - Wikipedia
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April 30, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I confess myself...disappointed in 2 things today: that Earconwald is not in the #CofE calendar, given the importance of his cult in London; + that I can't share the 14c poem St. Erkenwald with you bc THE BL HAS NOT PUT THE MS BACK ONLINE. That's Harley 2250, for all the good it will do you.
It’s my time: delve comes from delue/delven (old/Middle English) and is a regular degular word going back quite literally centuries
June 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
It’s my time: delve comes from delue/delven (old/Middle English) and is a regular degular word going back quite literally centuries
~ Drink all ye can and our ears we will lend
Pray let us wait no more, let’s hear thy end!’
‘Kind sir do not haste me for as thy beer
Brings me cool succour I still know the fear
That was felt that fine day among the best
And the least that looked on and long the test
Of Sir Erkenwald...
Pray let us wait no more, let’s hear thy end!’
‘Kind sir do not haste me for as thy beer
Brings me cool succour I still know the fear
That was felt that fine day among the best
And the least that looked on and long the test
Of Sir Erkenwald...
February 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
~ Drink all ye can and our ears we will lend
Pray let us wait no more, let’s hear thy end!’
‘Kind sir do not haste me for as thy beer
Brings me cool succour I still know the fear
That was felt that fine day among the best
And the least that looked on and long the test
Of Sir Erkenwald...
Pray let us wait no more, let’s hear thy end!’
‘Kind sir do not haste me for as thy beer
Brings me cool succour I still know the fear
That was felt that fine day among the best
And the least that looked on and long the test
Of Sir Erkenwald...
While I sincerely doubt that Erkenwald rests in a garden at Soulton Hall, ‘Saint in a Shrubbery’ makes a refreshing change from the rather hackneyed ‘King in a Car Park’ trope that has been in vogue with the media in recent years.
It also has a welcome touch of Monty Python about it…
It also has a welcome touch of Monty Python about it…
September 2, 2026 at 10:52 AM
While I sincerely doubt that Erkenwald rests in a garden at Soulton Hall, ‘Saint in a Shrubbery’ makes a refreshing change from the rather hackneyed ‘King in a Car Park’ trope that has been in vogue with the media in recent years.
It also has a welcome touch of Monty Python about it…
It also has a welcome touch of Monty Python about it…
Guy who’s only familiar with 14thC alliterative poem St Erkenwald about a mummy found in a sarcophagus, decorated with strange lettering, in a London crypt, watching The Mummy (2017): “Getting real St Erkenwald vibes from this”
July 21, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Guy who’s only familiar with 14thC alliterative poem St Erkenwald about a mummy found in a sarcophagus, decorated with strange lettering, in a London crypt, watching The Mummy (2017): “Getting real St Erkenwald vibes from this”
Chertsey is a town in the Borough of Runnymede, Surrey, England.
It grew up around Chertsey Abbey, founded in AD 666 by St Erkenwald, and gained a market charter from Henry I.
A bridge across the River Thames first appeared in the early 15th century.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chertsey
It grew up around Chertsey Abbey, founded in AD 666 by St Erkenwald, and gained a market charter from Henry I.
A bridge across the River Thames first appeared in the early 15th century.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chertsey
Chertsey - Wikipedia
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January 25, 2026 at 4:36 AM
Chertsey is a town in the Borough of Runnymede, Surrey, England.
It grew up around Chertsey Abbey, founded in AD 666 by St Erkenwald, and gained a market charter from Henry I.
A bridge across the River Thames first appeared in the early 15th century.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chertsey
It grew up around Chertsey Abbey, founded in AD 666 by St Erkenwald, and gained a market charter from Henry I.
A bridge across the River Thames first appeared in the early 15th century.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chertsey
Thank you to the Whitchurch Herald for coving the #ASYOULIKEIT #Shakespeare #bluebell walk for @macmillancancer and the the #erkenwald #poetrycommunity event coming up in April!
www.whitchurchherald.co.uk/news/2494213...
www.whitchurchherald.co.uk/news/2494213...
February 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Thank you to the Whitchurch Herald for coving the #ASYOULIKEIT #Shakespeare #bluebell walk for @macmillancancer and the the #erkenwald #poetrycommunity event coming up in April!
www.whitchurchherald.co.uk/news/2494213...
www.whitchurchherald.co.uk/news/2494213...
Here’s a link to my new article on archives and plague death! I loved being part of this special issue (and huge thanks to editor Daniel Davies and my fellow contributors—go read their essays too!) read.dukeupress.edu/jmems/articl...
Forgetting the Plague: Disease, Social Hierarchy, and the Limits of the Archive in Saint Erkenwald and the Liber albus
During England's fourteenth‐ and fifteenth‐century plague outbreaks, medieval archivists and literary authors alike emphasized the imbrication of archives and death. The London clerk John Carpenter ag...
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September 16, 2026 at 3:24 AM
Here’s a link to my new article on archives and plague death! I loved being part of this special issue (and huge thanks to editor Daniel Davies and my fellow contributors—go read their essays too!) read.dukeupress.edu/jmems/articl...
St Erkenwald is also an important inclusion ( as you no doubt know).
I'm curious about which female saints appear toward the end of the litany.
I'm curious about which female saints appear toward the end of the litany.
August 13, 2026 at 3:01 PM
St Erkenwald is also an important inclusion ( as you no doubt know).
I'm curious about which female saints appear toward the end of the litany.
I'm curious about which female saints appear toward the end of the litany.
Eric Wade shared a pic Erkenwald in that MS at the other place, which I'll put here so you can get a taste of what's unavailable. But I'm still grumpy.
April 30, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Eric Wade shared a pic Erkenwald in that MS at the other place, which I'll put here so you can get a taste of what's unavailable. But I'm still grumpy.
St Erkenwald Flintstones crossover when
December 11, 2025 at 2:38 PM
St Erkenwald Flintstones crossover when
I reviewed Lev Grossman’s The Bright Sword for Paste! (and I got to talk about St. Erkenwald) www.pastemagazine.com/books/lev-gr...
The Bright Sword is a Radiant Reimagining of Arthurian Legend
Lev Grossman's doorstopper of an Arthurian retelling offers a refreshing new take on both the famous king and the world that came after him.
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July 16, 2024 at 3:13 PM
I reviewed Lev Grossman’s The Bright Sword for Paste! (and I got to talk about St. Erkenwald) www.pastemagazine.com/books/lev-gr...
You can get it here:
www.poetryfoundatoon.org/poems/159122/saint-erkenwald .... more generally, I keep a live library of useful links for studying alliterative verse at alliteration.net ...
www.poetryfoundatoon.org/poems/159122/saint-erkenwald .... more generally, I keep a live library of useful links for studying alliterative verse at alliteration.net ...
www.poetryfoundatoon.org
April 30, 2025 at 8:57 PM
You can get it here:
www.poetryfoundatoon.org/poems/159122/saint-erkenwald .... more generally, I keep a live library of useful links for studying alliterative verse at alliteration.net ...
www.poetryfoundatoon.org/poems/159122/saint-erkenwald .... more generally, I keep a live library of useful links for studying alliterative verse at alliteration.net ...
St. Erkenwald, an early Bishop of London and London's first patron saint, died today (probably) in 693AD. Read here about early Christianity in London www.thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/early-christ...
April 30, 2025 at 7:46 AM
St. Erkenwald, an early Bishop of London and London's first patron saint, died today (probably) in 693AD. Read here about early Christianity in London www.thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/early-christ...
I’m translating lines from st erkenwald this evening and this is THE poem, i don’t care what anyone says
January 12, 2024 at 11:28 PM
I’m translating lines from st erkenwald this evening and this is THE poem, i don’t care what anyone says
Save the Date: A Medieval Literary Journey
Get ready to step back in time!
Join us for an immersive reading of the epic poem, Erkenwald.
When: April 27, 2025 at 2 PM
Where: Soulton Hall
More details to follow at this link:
soultonhall.co.uk/2024/save-th...
Get ready to step back in time!
Join us for an immersive reading of the epic poem, Erkenwald.
When: April 27, 2025 at 2 PM
Where: Soulton Hall
More details to follow at this link:
soultonhall.co.uk/2024/save-th...
December 11, 2024 at 12:37 AM
Save the Date: A Medieval Literary Journey
Get ready to step back in time!
Join us for an immersive reading of the epic poem, Erkenwald.
When: April 27, 2025 at 2 PM
Where: Soulton Hall
More details to follow at this link:
soultonhall.co.uk/2024/save-th...
Get ready to step back in time!
Join us for an immersive reading of the epic poem, Erkenwald.
When: April 27, 2025 at 2 PM
Where: Soulton Hall
More details to follow at this link:
soultonhall.co.uk/2024/save-th...