Click on the gold buckle for a link to the British Museum website. A nice readable book telling all about the treasure found in the Mound 1 ship is the one by Angela Care Evans called simply ‘The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial’. Available through the British Museum Press. It has excellent photos. There is a [...]
June 12, 2009
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It is doubtful whether the lyre of the Anglo-Saxon scop could have competed with the Funk Brothers of Hitsville USA and it is doubtful whether he could have played it with his teeth like Jimi Hendrix but you never know. What is probable is that he would have related to the idea of some kind of soul journey which [...]
June 5, 2009
It is inevitable I suppose when a superstar poet (if there is such a thing) decides to translate a classic that it is hailed as a major success. The translation is now a decade old and on its anniversary I have re-read it. I remember being excited that a poet of Heaney’s stature should have come up with [...]
June 21, 2009
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