Viking Day at Heffers – 17 May 2014

Saturday 17th May, 11:00 – 4:00 Ph.D students from the department will be helping local re-enactors during a day of Viking-themed activites at the Cambridge Heffers bookstore. Games, poetry, storytelling and rune-writing will be part of the programme, which is aimed at children  – although all ages are welcome!

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Clemoes Prize Winner 2014

Thank you to all the participants of yesterday’s Clemoes Reading Prize  for making it one of the best such events in recent years. It was a closely fought contest, but congratulations are extended to Charlotte White who won with her reading of select stanzas from Guðrúnarkviða I & II in Old Norse. Well done, Charlotte!

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