Seb Falk @sebfalk.com · Jul 16 I'm so thrilled to have this published! Starting from a chat over lunch at @girtoncollege.bsky.social, James Wade & I chipped away at this & have made some fascinating discoveries. The actual article should be published later today. In the meantime, more here: www.cam.ac.uk/stories/song...
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oh that's exciting, well done!
First saw this in the NY Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/w...
Wonderful discoveries and congratulations on the solid media coverage Seb!
Congrats to you both!!
It definitely was my favourite section in the Today Programme this morning!
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Nice! Scholars do seem to have got their knickers in a twist over this. Speaking of which, what are the grounds for reading the nickers as sea-snakes rather than mermaids? Cf. Harley 505 f. 132r “C(h)oreantes similes sunt … syrenis, anglice nikeres” (Wenzel 1992) and other quots in MED s.v. ‘niker’.
Amazing! Will go back and listen to the today programme!
Fantastic! Congratulations!
Awesome!!
Very natural-looking picture of two researchers looking at a manuscript 😅
How would this Hildebrand father of Wade relate to the Hildebrand song? Or is the name Hildebrand common enough in the (early) medieval literature?
Very cool! Congratulations!