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Companions at Dalbyology, Dalby Forest 7 July 2024

Sunday 7 July – Dalbyology – The Visitor Centre, Dalby Forest, Pickering, YO18 7LT – 10.30 am to 4 pm

Two of the English Companions dressed as Anglo-Saxons at their information stall

The English Companions will be having a stall at the annual festival of -ologies at Dalby Forest in North Yorkshire. This popular event has been running for many years and has participants from a large range of local interest groups including astonomy, falconry, sea life, plant life, butterflies, geology and history.

This year the theme is “Lifespans” and we will be there to talk about the continuing influence of Old English on our modern language, as well as the Anglo-Saxon understanding of time and history. We’ll also provide a chance to make your own bookmark using runes and Anglo-Saxon decorations.

Come along and say hello and find out more!

For full event details see the Dalby Forest event website

HWÆT! poetry and music at Jarrow Hall

Anglo-Saxon woman reading poetry in meadhall
Gesið at Jarrow Hall (c) PWicks 2024
Anglo-Saxon man playing harp in meadhall
Harp player at Jarrow Hall (c) PWicks 2024

One of our members participated in an evening of poetry, music and song at Jarrow Hall on Sunday 9th June. We also enjoyed the sound of the Anglo-Saxon harp accompanied by pipe and drum, all by the same musician. Local poets read poetry and we heard traditional songs too. Naturally it was accompanied by a glass of mead and a roraing fire. Gesiðas are delighted and honoured to be able to join in such events and help to share our love of language and poetry from th eperiod with others.

Two of the performers reading in the meadhall
Meadhall poets at Jarrow Hall (c) PWicks