A couple of months ago, I was poking through the Electronic Sawyer, an online version of the classic catalogue of Anglo-Saxon charters and wills. I was throwing in some random search terms related to my research – prayer, cross, crucifix – hoping to find references to people leaving prayerbooks to their beneficiaries, but not coming…
Month: October 2016
Lots of Wynn
It is one year to the day since my first ever post on For the Wynn! Thanks to all of you who have read my posts, commented on them, and passed them on. Today I’m celebrating my bloggiversary by writing about the letter Ƿ (wynn). Ƿ is the Anglo-Saxon letter w, meaning ‘joy’; and, as…
For the Wynn 