Category: Magazine

Our magazine Wiðowinde (Bindweed)

Our magazine’s name is pronounced “withohwindeh”. It is Old English for some of the plants that are called ‘bindweed’ in modern English.

We welcome contributions from members and non-members: please see the guide for contributors

More information about the content of our quarterly magazine is below.

You can also see the range of topics covered in past issues in our index of issues 1-199.

Withowinde indexDownload

Handbook

In addition, the Society’s Handbook is available to buy, containing our pick of articles from the magazine. These include, among others, topics such as reading and conversational Old English, an introduction to Anglo-Saxon runes, a discussion of the wics as England’s first towns, and an introduction to the Anglo-Saxon harp, laws, kingship, archery, churches and zoos.

Cost of Handbook: £5 plus postage (varies for UK and overseas)

For the cost of postage and to place an order, please contact the Membership Secretary

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Contents – Issue #208 (Winter 2023)

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Articles

  • Panel Page: St Hilda and Cædmon
  • In Search of King Guthrum
  • How to make an Anglo-Saxon Sword
  • Ælfric’s Colloquy
  • Sompting Church
  • King Æthelric of Bernicia
  • Winters in the World
  • The Kingdom of Sussex
  • A Yuletide Tale
  • The Cædmon Prize Entries

Regular Features

  • Editor’s welcome
  • Chairman’s report
  • Secretary’s page
  • Companions’ news
  • Coin corner
  • Event reports
  • Tidings

Contents – Issue #207 (Autumn 2023)

Articles

  • Between Archaeology and Philology
  • Two Anglo-Saxon Churches in Lincoln
  • Maldon: An English Thermopylae?
  • The Lady of the Mercians
  • Panel Page: The Anglo-Saxons

Regular Features

  • Editor’s Welcome
  • Chairman’s Report
  • Secretary’s Page
  • Companions’ News
  • Coin Corner
  • Event Reports
  • Tidings
  • Book Reviews
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Contents – Issue #206 (Summer 2023)

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Articles

  • Crosses of Northern Britain
  • King Ecgfrith of Northumbria – part 2
  • Reflections on Shippey’s “Beowulf and the North”
  • Lavendon Church
  • Myers and the Anglo-Saxon Settlement Revisited
  • Hereward the Wake: and English hero for all time
  • Museum Visit: Ad Gefrin
  • Translating “The Wife’s Lament”
  • Days Out with the Old English Zoom Group

Regular Features

  • Editor’s Welcome
  • Chairman’s Report
  • Secretary’s Page
  • Companion News
  • Coin Corner
  • Tidunga – Tidings
  • Book Reviews
  • Letters

Contents – Issue #205 (Spring 2023)

Articles

  • The Winner of the Ælfred Prize
  • Tolkien, Byrhtnoð and the Battle of Maldon
  • Working Together
  • Panel Page: Yorkshire Treasures
  • Ledsham Church
  • King Ecgfrith of Northumbria
  • Herespel for Hugh Soar
  • Against a Wen
  • Ad Gefrin Update

Regular Features

  • Editor’s Welcome
  • Chairman’s Report
  • Secretary’s Page
  • Companion News
  • Coin Corner
  • Event Report
  • Tidunga – Tidings
  • Book Reviews

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Contents – Issue #204 (Winter 2022)

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Articles

  • Wulfhere and Mercian southern hegemony
  • St Bene’t’s Church, Cambridge
  • Collecting Anglo-Saxon coins
  • The birth of East Anglia
  • Dyeing with woad
  • DNA research into early Anglo-Saxon England
  • The Ælfred Prize entries

Regular Features

  • Editor’s Welcome
  • Chairman’s Report
  • Secretary’s Page
  • Companion News
  • Coin Corner
  • Event Reports
  • Tidunga – Tidings

Contents – Issue #203 (Autumn 2022)

Articles

  • Panel Page: The Venerable Bede
  • How do I say that in Old English? (The Ælfred Prize)
  • The Anglo-Saxon Achievement
  • Freawaru and Ingeld
  • Jarrow Church
  • King Ælfwald II of Northumbria
  • Bee and Ham Soup (part II)
  • Listening to the Stone
  • Our Lady of the Mercians

Regular Features

  • Editor’s Welcome
  • Chairman’s Report
  • Secretary’s Page
  • Companion News
  • Tidunga
  • Coin Corner
  • Event Report

Contents – Issue #202 (Summer 2022)

Articles

  • Wealþeow
  • The Battle of Stamford Bridge Tapestry
  • Bee and Ham Soup Part 1: Factor Analysis
  • The Future of the Gegaderung
  • A Forgotten Old English Tale
  • Coln Rogers Church
  • Reconstruction of an Anglo-Saxon Palace
  • Our Germanic Roots – Part 11
  • Lilla Cross and the Lilla Howe Hoard

Regular Features

  • Editor’s welcome
  • Chairman’s Report
  • Secretary’s Page
  • Events
  • Tidinga
  • Coin Corner
  • Letters

Contents – Issue #201 (Spring 2022)

Articles

  • Cædmon Prize Winner
  • Old English Course Review
  • History of the Coinage of Anglo-Saxon England
  • Hickes, Tolkein and the Freswæl
  • The Saxon Tower
  • The Kingdom of the Hwicce
  • Hough on the Hill Church
  • A Deal of Mutual Benefit
  • Oswy, King of Northumbria part 2
  • Panel Page: Key Players at the Synod of Whitby
  • Our Germanic Roots, part 10

Regular features

  • Editor’s welcome
  • Chairman’s Report
  • Secretary’s Page
  • Companions’ News
  • Tidings
  • Coin Corner
  • Book reviews
  • Letters

Contents – Issue #200 (Winter 2021)

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Articles

  • Panel Page: Synod of Whitby
  • Cover Story: How to read an Anglo-Saxon Charter
  • The Saxon Lady of Long Compton
  • The Sons of King Cnut
  • Urien’s Rheged
  • Repton Church
  • Oswy, King of Northumbria
  • Our Germanic Roots Part 9
  • Stories in Stone: Hackness Cross
  • The Caedmon Prize Entries

Regular features

  • Editor’s welcome
  • Chairman’s Report
  • Secretary’s Page
  • Companions’ News
  • Event Report
  • Coin Corner

Guidance for Contributors to Wiðowinde

Contributions to our magazine Wiðowinde are invited from anyone with an interest in the Anglo-Saxon period (CE 400-1100). Contributions from experts in the field and from present members of Ða Engliscan Gesiðas (The English Companions) are especially welcomed. No cash payment is made for materials published.

All submissions will be considered for publication, regardless of format. However, our preferred formats and means of transmission are:

  • By e-mail direct to the Editor (bocere@tha-engliscan-gesithas.org.uk);
  • Or on a USB memory-stick;
  • Documents should be submitted in MS Word, Open Office, MS Publisher or rich-text file (.rtf) format;
  • Special paragraph, page or text formatting (margins, line spacing, page orientation, fonts, etc.) should not be used without prior agreement;
  • Images must not be embedded in documents. Where provided electronically, they should be in .jpeg or .tiff format at 300dpi with a file size no greater than 1MB;

Where it is not possible to provide material in this electronic format then articles may be sent either by post, type-written, double-spaced, on one side of the paper only.

The author of an article must clear copyright of all material, written, illustrative or photographic submitted for publication.

Contributors wishing to have unused printed materials returned to them should include a suitably-sized, stamped and self-addressed envelope. (Please note, however: UNLESS a specific timescale for return is indicated, the Editor is deemed to have agreement to retain an article until a suitable opportunity arises for its publication). 

The Editor will always acknowledge receipt of any submissions sent electronically. Receipt of contributions, other than those sent by email, is not normally acknowledged. Contributors wishing to receive an acknowledgement for materials sent by post are asked to supply a stamped and self-addressed postcard.

Ða Engliscan Gesiðas (The English Companions) cannot accept responsibility for literary contributions, drawings, photographs etc. during transmission or while in the Editor’s charge.

Copyright and moral rights to articles remain with their respective authors; however, Ða Engliscan Gesiðas (The English Companions) is deemed to have agreement to reprint or make available through its website(s) at a later date any and all materials which have previously appeared in its magazines. Individual copyrights will be affirmed with the copyright symbol ( © ) only where this is specifically requested.

While the Editor will not knowingly include erroneous information, the responsibility for accuracy lies with individual authors. Wiðowinde is deemed to provide, amongst other things, a forum for debate and any views expressed within its pages by any persons remain their own, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Editor, Witan (Directors) or of Ða Engliscan Gesiðas (The English Companions) as a body corporate.