Gosh, hello...

Gosh hello everyone,

I am a forty-two-year-old British bachelor and, as from 1994, an elected Member of the Philological Society. I used to be a member of everything from the Early English Text Society to the British Academy of Archaeology at Ankara ( when my interest in the Minoan civilization of Bronze Age Crete developed), but that was before the silicon chip robbed me of my prime income. I do, however, mean to renew my membership of Đā Engliscan Ġesīþas, ( http://www.tha-engliscan-gesithas.org.uk/gegaderung, I post as Bowerthane ) the premier association of amateur Anglo-Saxonists. Pre-Conquest England, indeed the Dark Ages-cum-Early Mediaeval Period generally, being another of my passions.

I found the Ancient Mediterranean Cultures website googling for websites and discussion forums about Late Antiquity/ Classical times generally researching my latest literary masterpiece. However, I am especially pleased to discover the Ancient Mediterranean Cultures website as I have also been known to take an interest in Classical philosophy and its cultural environment. Also because I have three times, now, thought I’d come up with a googling trick for ferreting out a website and/ or discussion forum about the Minoan Cretan civilization – which I notice your remit covers. You may hear more from me about this!

My only problem is that self-employment keeps coming between me and the time I like to spend contributing to discussion forums. So I may disappear for whole weeks or even months at a time. Also I like forums like this that need more thought than I can always keep track of, which means I occasionally blurt bumspeak.

The least I can do is share some other websites I know of, in case anyone here shares my interesting medieval times, too:

http://fishpond.owlfish.com/medievallogs.html
http://pages.towson.edu/duncan/mll/mlllinks.html
http://www.bede.net/Welcome.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1f.html
http://www.stealingfire.com/middleground/default.asp
http://owlfish.livejournal.com/

And here are some of the Anglo-Saxon-cum-Germanic websites I haunt:

http://www.englishheathenism.homestead.com or
www.ealdriht.org
http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ballc/oe/old_english.html
http://www.friesian.com/germania.htm
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1f.html
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~hanly/oe/503images.html
http://www.bedesworld.co.uk/
http://www.ravensgard.org/gerekr/anglo.html
http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/rhuddlan/images/
http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/hel/hel.html

Though maybe this website of the Frederick Nietzsche Society is news?

http://www.fns.org.uk

Wes hal! ( as we used to say)

Chris Chamberlain

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