Tom Shippey lectures

while checking out viking history, I ran across THIS...if you scroll down, it includes two lectures by Tom Shippey

• February 05, 2004
  "From Book to Screen: Problems Tolkein set for Jackson"
  MP3 audio: "From Book to Screen: Problems Tolkien set for Jackson" (67.5MB)
  video: "From Book to Screen: Problems Tolkein set for Jackson" (170MB)
  This lecture was a 2004 Lansdowne Lecture.
• February 7, 2004
  "Beowulf and the Origins of England"
  MP3 audio: "Beowulf and the Origins of England" (39.2MB)
  This lecture was given at the Seventeenth Annual Medieval Workshop.

factoid of the day from the lecture on Beowulf: The American seal almost had Hengsta and Horsa on it (if Tom Jeffereson got his way)...

and this one is amusing

• "Transferring Icelandic Naming Customs to Canada"
  This lecture was part of the Beck Icelandic Symposium 2004.
  MP3 audio: "Transferring Icelandic Naming Customs to Canada" (5MB)

on how folks got their name or nickname.