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Upcoming Zoom Times
🕑 Added 2023-11-07 18:00:12 +0000 UTCHere's a (possibly incomplete) guide to the upcoming Zoom meetings I have scheduled for Patreon. All times are U.S. Mountain time (Denver time); check https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html for the equivalent time in your time zone and remember to put the date in because different countries come off Daylight Savings Time on different dates.
· First, I forgot to hold Office Hours in October, for which I apologize. For November, I'll hold them a week from today, on Tuesday, November 14th, at 11:00 a.m. U.S. Mountain time. The Zoom link is here(https://zoom.us/j/99975922724?pwd=Y2hlKzMzeGVWMWo3M1RiM0FDcHVsUT09); passcode: 635592
· The next day, we have a Patreon interview with Dr. Robert Cutrer, who's done a lot of work that I think will interest you. In this first interview of possibly several, we'll focus on Norse dragons and on the symbolic ways royalty in Old Norse literature are compared to dragons and serpents. That's Wednesday, November 15th, at 11:00 a.m. U.S. Mountain time. The Zoom link is here(https://zoom.us/j/98149035309?pwd=RnY3eFNWYVlhM1hGUkQ0akNIZGlxZz09) with passcode: 184442
· While there may end up being another interview or two between the latter and then, let me go ahead and put on your radars that we will finally be interviewing Kate Palmer, who has appeared in so many of our Office Hours and other discussions with fascinating information about (and great pictures of) Swedish runestones. Kate's written a dissertation called "Swansong of the diphthong: Runic inscription orthography in 11th century Östergötland" the details of which research will make a great springboard for a discussion about how runic writing changed over time and just exactly what rock-and-roll inscriptions are hiding out there in the Swedish countryside. This one will be Wednesday, December 6th, at 11:00 a.m. U.S. Mountain time. The Zoom link is here(https://zoom.us/j/92473930089?pwd=aHRBS2MycFpENFJ1cnBLalFPZGZuQT09) with passcode: 784996
· December's Indo-European news update with Prof. Tony Yates will probably be during my midday on Friday, December 8th, but we'll have to confirm that with his class schedule closer to then.
All the best for now,
Jackson Crawford
P.S. Your Patreon messages often don't reach me, and vice versa for my replies to you. I don't get notifications for them, and there's nothing on my home page to show me when there is or isn't a message. I can't even always see them when I check for them manually, and you won't see it if I reply! The best ways to get in touch are: a) just to comment on posts like this, b) to post in the Community page, or c) to email Stella at [admin AT JacksonWCrawford.com]--remember the 'W' between my first and last names in that domain name.
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If anyone wants a bit of a head start, while it's more broadly about dragons and their Icelandic reception rather than the specific symbolism re: royalty (which is the subject of his upcoming doctoral thesis), Robert Cutrer's MA thesis called "The Wilderness of Dragons: The reception of dragons in thirteenth century Iceland" is available for free online: https://www.academia.edu/41014380/The_Wilderness_of_Dragons_The_reception_of_dragons_in_thirteenth_century_Iceland If you have some bonus reading time after that, Ármann Jakobsson's "Enter the Dragon: Legendary Saga Courage and the Birth of the Hero" ( https://www.academia.edu/1819258/_Enter_the_Dragon_Legendary_Saga_Courage_and_the_Birth_of_the_Hero_Making_History_Essays_on_the_fornaldarsogur._Ed._Martin_Arnold_and_Alison_Finlay._London_2010_33-52 ) is also a free, relevant read. 🐍📚
Thank you for the vote of confidence Max. I will certainly try to not disappoint 😎
Finally Kate!! Show them how it’s done 😆
