Category: Poetry & Story

Into the Mere: What Beowulf Teaches About Fear of the Unknown

The mere is not just a lake. It is every dark water we refuse to look into. A close reading of the poem’s most unsettling passage — and why it still works on us, thirteen centuries on.

The Seafarer: Why Anyone Would Choose the Whale-Road

A poem about leaving comfort behind — and the restlessness it still names better than we can.

The Exeter Book Riddles: What Anglo-Saxons Found Funny

Onions, storms, dough, a one-eyed seller of garlic — the riddle-poems that prove the Anglo-Saxons had a sense of humour.

How the Vikings Influenced Old English Writing

Raiders, settlers, and eventually neighbours — the Norse left their mark on the English language and its poetry.