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!”
How To Tweet From Another Century
Talk given by Martha Bayless
Given at DukTalks 2013 at the University of Oregon on September 27, 2013
Some examples include:
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