How To Tweet From Another Century

How To Tweet From Another Century

Talk given by Martha Bayless

Given at DukTalks 2013 at the University of Oregon on September 27, 2013

University of Oregon medieval scholar Martha Bayless shares rune sticks from centuries past that illustrate how brief and personal everyday messages (exactly like tweets) — sometimes sharing “too much information”— are nothing new!

Some examples include:

• “Gyða says you should go home.”
• “They are both living together, Clumsy-Kari and and Vilhjalm’s wife.”
• “Ingebjorg loved me when I was in Stavanger.”
• “Arni the priest wants Inga.”
• “I love another man’s wife so much that fire seems cold to me.And I am that woman’s lover.”
• “I would rather visit the mead-houses more often!”