gramatisc-cræft

Posted on March 9, 2019 by Hana Videen

gramatisc-cræft, m.n: the art of grammar. (GRAM-a-tish-KRAFT)

mǣgwlitian

Posted on February 17, 2019 by Hana Videen

mǣgwlitian, wk.v: to form, shape. (MAEY-WLI-tee-ahn)

cnotta

Posted on January 19, 2019 by Hana Videen

cnotta, m.n: a knot, fastening, knitting. (K’NOT-ta)

Anglo-Saxon golden belt buckle from the Sutton Hoo ship-burial. England (Suffolk), 7th century. British Museum. Photo by Michel Wal (Wikimedia-Creative Commons). [commons.wikimedia.org]

hearpe-streng

Posted on September 11, 2018 by Hana Videen

hearpe-streng, m.n: a harp-string. (HAY-ar-peh-STRENG)

The Maastricht Hours. Netherlands (Liège), 1st quarter of the 14th century. British Library, Stowe MS 17, f. 245r. [bl.uk]

swinsung-cræft

Posted on September 9, 2018 by Hana Videen

swinsung-cræft, m.n: music. (SWIN-zung-KRAFT)

A rabbit plays the pipe-organ as a dog works the bellows. The Macclesfield Psalter. England (East Anglia), c. 1330-1340. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 1-2005, f. 15r. [fitzwilliam.cam.ac.uk]

hweogul

Posted on April 14, 2018 by Hana Videen

hweogul, n.n: a wheel. [HWAY-oh-gull]

Fortune turns her wheel in Boethius’s Consolation de philosophie. Art by Coëtivy Master (Henri de Vulcop?). France (Paris), c. 1460-1470. Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, MS. 42, fol. 1v. [getty.edu]