Browsing through a translation of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles (ASC) yesterday, the entry for 1015 caused us much merriment on account of a little rhyme at the end.
Much of the ASC after the early ninth century deals with intermittent (and increasingly vicious) raids by the Vikings, to whom the Chroniclers often refer as ‘the force’. [...]

It was a cold, frosty morning in the middle of winter…

Fortunately, these frost crystals were only on the outside of the glass. In the second picture, I like the way they snake along the bottom of the window frame, looking like a stretch of barbed wire.
Click the pics to see them bigger…and colder. Brrrr!

More intriguing nuggets of information from Sir Francis Hill’s Medieval Lincoln (see also our recent post on Stanthaket).
A short walk up Lincoln High Street from its southern end (not far from where we live) you will find Hermit Street. With no further clues, you might assume that it was built where a hermitage or monastery [...]

A little while — or, more precisely, about two years — ago, we visited Motherby Hill, a part of Lincoln we had not previously seen. Passing through the Spring Hill area of town, we noticed a strangely named road: Stanthaket Court, and decided to research the name when we got home. This week we finally [...]