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[hathycol]

Today I had the first half of my sixty credit module. I managed to remember everything from the half of the exam that is tomorrow and couldn't remember the name of any twelfth-century saints other than Thomas Becket, who my lecturer hates with a fiery passion, and the Virgin Mary, who doesn't technically count. All I had screaming around my brain was "ELY ETHELDREDA CUTHBERT CUTHBERT OOOH LOOKIT OSWALD!"

Tomorrow I will undoubtedly forget who Bede was and not be able to get the name Sulpicius Severus out of my head.

And yes, none of you have a clue what I'm talking about. It's okay. I don't really have an idea either. This time tomorrow I am going to be hurtled 1500 years into the future (okay, still our past... look, I don't do temporal physics or English and don't know what tense to use here) and learn everything there is to know about Victorian politics and try not just to flail too loudly. And I'll probably be soaking wet as everyone else seems to be done with exams tomorrow. BOOOO.

lalalala more skittles for Colleen. I am tired and want out of exams and feel a bit bemused that even after all this they're not done for another five days, which feels like eternity at the moment.

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[tau_sigma]

I mostly have no idea what you're talking about, but I know that a lot of the saints you've mentioned come from/have links to here (Bede has half a college named after her; Oswald king of Northumberland who had his head cut off? Cuthbert has a thing in the cathedral, etc.). Woo, North East!

*huuuuugs* All be over soon. Yes. Over soon. Thank goodness.

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

Bede is a bloke. I know this because my high school was named after him and there was a statue in the entrance hall. He wrote stuff. Primarily the Historia Ecclesiastic de... er, whatever English People is in Latin. Oswald was king of Northumbria wot got his dead chopped by some dude who was probably Welsh. And Cuthbert is actually in the cathedral, he's the only pre-Reformation saint to have relics that haven't moved from England.

Basically all the cool kids saints are in the North-East. Except for Guthlac of Crowland, he's from East Anglia. Actually technically the Midlands.

... you are the link to all the Anglo-Saxon saints!

[tau_sigma]

Oh. Oops? I don't even know why I thought Bede was a woman... I thought Cuthbert was still in the cathedral, but then I thought someone might have taken him back to Lindisfarne. It is good I don't have an exam on these things...

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

He might be back in Lindisfarne. Er. To be honest I have no idea what happened to him after he was dug up in 1821. I can tell you about the statistical make up of who visited his shrine, if you like?

Oh, god, I'm boring myself.

[tau_sigma]

The worst thing is that I have been to both Lindisfarne and Durham Cathedral (the latter several times), and I can't remember where he is now. I think you're right, actually; there's definately still some sort of shrine of St. Cuthbert.

...I am trying to revise for tomorrow, and I think you can tell by the speed of my replies how absolutely riveting I am finding Lasers and Spectroscopy.

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

There should be a shrine at both; Lindisfarne was where he was bishop of and he commanded his body should be buried (he had quite a chat about it at his death). The Vikings came in... er... 875, so they monks did a runner with the body, settled at some place called Chester-le-Street, then someone had a dream that he should settle at Durham and they built a cathedral around him. According to Wikipedia he's still there BUT the place where a saint lived/was interred for a bit was often a pilgrimage site in its own right, and Lindisfarne was/I believe still is a pretty holy site in its own right so people would do on pilgrimage there and there was a shrine there too.

I have a feeling I would find Lasers and Spectroscopy interesting at this point. I know it sounds up there like a know a lot about saints but I sort of don't...

[moralrelativist.livejournal.com]

Good luck with your big exam! I hope you remember all those important names! (Severus Snapeicus, Humbert Humbert, Anoia Goddess of things stuck in drawers, etc etc etc.) Should we have the head-underpants-extractor at the ready?

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

Keep it warmed up, that's all I advise.

[shoe--gal.livejournal.com]

Good luck for the rest of the exams! And you get the special subject split over two days? Ours was all 6 hours on the same day...at least it got it over with!