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!

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!

A conference organised by Robert Gallagher, Juliann Pigott and Sarah Waidler, PhD students in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, together with their colleague from St Andrews, Jennifer Key, gained much publicity on the University website and is discussed here: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/and-the-girl-he-immersed-in-the-font-he-took-out-as-a-boy