Thomas McSweeney
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Professor of Law @wmlawschool. Legal historian, medievalist, W&M alum. Writing about English law in the 13th century. Author of Priests of the Law (Oxford 2019), on the Bracton treatise and its authors. All views my own, not W&M's.
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It's Monday, so let's talk about the most eel-some place in England. That's right..it's Ely time! Ely is all about eels. Bede wrote in his Ecclesiastical History (c. 700 CE) that Ely took its name from the abundant eels in the nearby fens & waters: Ely means Isle of Eels. 1/3 🗃️🧪
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"that he instigated at Oxford the practice of calling this symbol [i.e., Æ] by the name of the corresponding Anglo-Saxon rune." I confess that in 35+ years since I began to study OE at Oxford it had never once occurred to me that the letter-name æsc (ash) was a comparatively recent introduction.
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