https://www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.uk/events/long-and-short-it-words-and-their-extremities-languages-early-medieval-britain-and-ireland
This talk introduces you to the sounds, shapes and meanings of words from the Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic worlds, and how they relate to the languages we speak in Britain and Ireland today. Come and meet words from the earliest periods of English, Welsh, Irish and the Scandinavian languages — everything from æ and mo to hwæthwugununges and fianamailecharadhartai!
