Hana Videen

Hana Videen is a writer, a blogger, and the author of The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English (Princeton). She holds a PhD in Old English from King’s College London, and has been hoarding Old English words since 2013, when she began tweeting one a day. Website: www.oldenglishwordhord.com.

Why We Anthropomorphize Animals (and Always Have)

Hana Videen on the Origins of the Bestiary and Its Role in the Medieval Imagination

February 6, 2024 By Hana Videen

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No One Ever Said It: On the Long History of “Ye Olde” in English

Hana Videen on Chaucer, Hamlet, and the Evolution of Middle and Old English

October 10, 2023 By Hana Videen

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