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These are some useful words from the book which you can look up (they are in a slightly different colour) if you want to sort your 'refuge' from your 'retreat'.

The glossary page

In the days before printing, scribes would add some text above the original if they wanted to add or change anything - we get our expression 'putting a gloss on something' from this practice of changing what was written. And all of the many changes might be brought together into a glossary which explained, or expanded, what had been written in the manuscript.

... and manuscript just means something something that is written by hand (from two Latin words)

... and I write with my pen (which comes from the Latin or Italian for feather - pena) as I still collect goose feathers to write in the old scripts.

And of course, I need my special feather knife, which you know as a penknife, to make my 'pens'.

Interesting links

bullet Battle of Fulford
bullet Battle of Stamford Bridge
bullet Battle of Hastings
bullet English Heritage
bullet Battlefields Trust
bullet Young Archaeologists Club (CAB)
bullet York Archaeological Trust
bullet Regia re-enactors
bullet Viking re-enactors
bulletOnline documents

Events

bullet Riccall Rampage 24 July 2010
bullet Jorvik Festival (there will be another one in 2011!)
bullet Fulford Festival 2010
bullet Festival of archaeology 2010

 

 

 

 

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