[MR] Fwd: [M-R] Announcement: The Heroic Age

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Good article on 12th-century Norman and Irish boats ...
Ingvild
 

Please  take note and forward:
The editors of the Heroic Age: A Journal of  Early
Medieval Northwestern Europe
(http://www.heroicage.org) are  pleased to announce the
publication of Issue 8:Traders, Saints, and  Pirates:
The Sea in Early Medieval Northwestern Europe.  The
main  articles are:

Twelfth-Century Norman and Irish Literary Evidence  for
Ship-Building and Sea-Faring Techniques of Norse
Origin by William  Sayers.

"Bad to the Bone"?  The Unnatural History of  Monstrous
Medieval Whales by Vicki Ellen Szabo.

Time, Space and  Political Communities: Transportation
and Travel Routes in Early Medieval  England by Lemont
Dobson.

Pictish Art and the Sea by Craig  Cessford.

In addition we offer our regular columns and  other
features.  Issue Editor Elizabeth Ragan has done a
very good  job pulling these articles together and
bringing the Issue 8 to fruition  and we would like to
thank her for her efforts.

In other and related  news, our website has moved! 
Many of you will have seen Bill  Schipper's
announcement last week regarding our new  url:
www.heroicage.org.  Related to the new url is the fact
that we  have moved completely to the web site at
Memorial University of  Newfoundland.  We would like to
thank MUN and particularly Bill  Schipper for housing
the journal.  Thanks also go to Dan O'Donnell and  Bill
Schipper for providing and setting up the new site  and
address.

Readers will also note a change in the web  site
design.  Board member Deanna Forsman undertook a
redesign of  our site.  We have now entered the 21st
century in web design which  has far outstripped our
original look.  Admittedly current web design  has far
outstripped our new design too, but it is good to have
a  facelift.  Our thanks go to Dr. Forsman for all her
hard work on the  site and creativity.  We also invite
comments on the site.

One  final note: with Issue 8 we have introduced
paragraph numbering for  articles etc. in our issues. 
We have introduced this change in an effort  to address
difficulties with citing online articles.  As  is
obvious, one cannot cite a page number if there are no
pages!   But paragraph numbers not only resolve that
issue, they also give an even  
greater abillity to specify what is being cited or
quoted.  We  hope this development is of service to our
readers.

Thank you for  your time, and we hope that you will
visit the Heroic Age soon.   

L. J. Swain
Interim Editor in  Chief

http://www.heroicage.org