Congratulations to Kieran Brooker, winner of the 2021 Clemoes Reading Prize for his performance of Alcuin’s Carmen XLV in Latin. Congratulations also goes to Alexandra Zhirnova for best entertainment for her reading of Anglo-Latin Riddles and to Lara Estupinan-Caceres for best dramatic performance for reading Skírnismál in Old Norse. Both win £50 in book tokens.

The ASNC graduate seminar with Professor Brink that was originally scheduled for today has been postponed until the new academic year.

Congratulations to Dr Tom Grant who has been awarded a Leverhulme Study Abroad Grant for his project, ‘An Investigation into the Impact of Christianisation on Old Norse Skaldic Poetry (c. 870–1350)’, which will enable him to spend two years as a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Utrecht.