swegel-wundor

Posted on October 3, 2018 by Hana Videen

swegel-wundor, n.n: a heavenly wonder, a wondrous sound. (SWAY-yell-WUN-dor)

This week’s Wordhord Wednesday post is on St Guthlac and his musical death. Read it on Patreon.

mǣl

Posted on September 1, 2018 by Hana Videen

mǣl, n.n: a measure; a mark, sign, cross, crucifix; fixed, suitable, appointed time, season, occasion; the time for eating, a meal. (MAL)

nunne

Posted on August 15, 2018 by Hana Videen

nunne, f.n: a nun. (NUN-nuh / ˈnʌn-nə)

This week’s Wordhord Wednesday post is on St Augustine’s arrival in England. Read it on Patreon.

nuns-literacies-ms-25_f61r_detail — Burnet Psalter. England, 15th century. Aberdeen University Library, MS 25, f. 61r. [abdn.ac.uk]

regol

Posted on August 11, 2018 by Hana Videen

regol, m.n: a rule; pattern, standard, norm; a canon, prescript; the body of rules which guide a particular order of ecclesiastics. (REH-gol)

St Benedict handing his disciple St Maurus his Rule. Nîmes, 1129. British Library, Add MS 16979, f. 21v. [bl.uk]

cirio-mangung

Posted on August 7, 2018 by Hana Videen

cirio-mangung, f.n: church-mongering, the sale or purchase of ecclesiastical offices, simony. (CHIR-ee-oh-MAHN-gung)

A bishop accused of simony by two fornicators. Miniature on a cutting from a leaf from Gratian’s Decretum (Causa VI), attributed to an artist of the Milemete group. 67 × 66 mm. England, c. 1320-1330. Apparently stolen: if you see (or have seen) it, please contact info@samfogg.com. [mssprovenance.blogspot.com]

gāst-cyning

Posted on July 22, 2018 by Hana Videen

gāst-cyning, m.n: spirit-king, God. (GAHST-KUE-ning / ˈgaːst-ˌky-niŋ)

hearga

Posted on June 21, 2018 by Hana Videen

hearga, m.n: a place sacred to a god, with an idol and an altar; a temple, fane; an idol. (HAY-ar-ga)

Antiochus IV, crowned, with joined hands raised, kneels with two men, partially visible, before draped altar on which sits horned idol. Abrégé des histoires divines. France (possibly Amiens), between 1300 and 1310. New York, Morgan Library, MS M.751, f. 29v. [ica.themorgan.org]

Cristes bōc

Posted on April 22, 2018 by Hana Videen

Cristes bōc, f.n: Christ’s book, the gospel (an account of Jesus’s life and teachings). [KRIST-ess BOAK]

Lindisfarne Gospels, the beginning of St Matthew’s Gospel. England (Lindisfarne), late 7th or early 8th century. British Library, Cotton Nero D. IV, f. 27r. [bl.uk]