Abbott's Nook
I imagine myself a medieval monk
brown-cowled
running an errand for the abbott
racing through his nook
...and time.
His chapel becomes an inn
while along the lane that led to his windmill
is a new-build for the recently-retired.
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'The best is yet to come,' promises the hoarding
- looking to the past.
brown-cowled
running an errand for the abbott
racing through his nook
...and time.
His chapel becomes an inn
while along the lane that led to his windmill
is a new-build for the recently-retired.
'The best is yet to come,' promises the hoarding
- looking to the past.
posted by Clare Dudman at 11:17 pm
8 Comments:
Yes, more medieval-and-after Chester walks!
I wondered why this place was called Abbot's Nook - and then I looked on a map of Medieval Chester and could see why. Really exciting! (Which makes me think I maybe don't get out enough :-))
All these posts on Medieval Britain reminds me of a book I read recently which I'm sure you would love. I certainly did - it blew me away. It's called "Hild" and is by Nicola Griffith. It's an imaginative and compelling fictional biography of St Hilda of Whitby, set in 7th Century Britain. I can't recommend it highly enough.
Oooh thanks Anne! Just discovered there's a rather deliciously narrated audible version so I'm downloading that (I say 'delicious' because the narrator has a north-east English accent - I'm not sure that would be historically apt because I expect Hild would be talking in Anglo-Saxon but it helps to evoke the sense of place).
Well, at least you'll have the antique words spoken properly in the audio version as the reader of the book form has to make a wild guess at the pronunciation. Hope you enjoy Hild. Nicola Griffith is originally from Northern England, hence her fascination for Hild. She has a wonderful blog, at Ask Nicola worth checking out.
True - and I certainly wouldn't want it in Anglo-Saxon (because I wouldn't understand a word :-)). I love the north-east accent. It's very musical. One of the colleges at my old university was called St Hild and St Bede so it will be very interesting to hear this saint's origin - just because of that!
Well, the only historical record of St Hilda was written by Bede as he was partly her contemporary and she was quite famous at the time.
I don't think there was very much literature that survives from that time except for Bede's...that's the impression, I have.
I was wrong about the north-east accent, BTW. Now I've listened to the first couple of chapters, I realise it's not a north-east accent at all! Never mind - a good narrator, anyway.
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