The View From Kalamazoo

So my boss is one heck of an Anglo-Saxonist (SUCH an understatement. Any Anglo-Saxonist reading this is yelling obscenities at their monitors) and he’s teaching a course at the Newberry, again (Fridays, as it so happens).

So last Thursday I’m able to make his whole day by running into the news that “the tomb of an East Saxon king containing a fabulous collection of artefacts has been unearthed..”

I make copies of the brief BBC report for his class and dig up a host of other reporting Monday for him – from the Scotsman (above), History Today, MoLAS, Guardian, Ananova, and the Museum of London site (which has some dandy, well-organized FAQs).

It’s nice to be an office hero. And I’m not even an Anglo-Saxonist, so I suppose this earns me a special place in heaven. (actually, I’m just the office geek who blogs and obsessively checks for News of Interest as a medievalist…so I suppose it’s part of my job description, right after ‘makes sure the boss’ Windows and Norton are updated weekly’…*heh*)