Ballot Archive

17 Feb 2022

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Stephen Pollington

Academic degrees, honours etc.

Stephen is a self-taught English and Germanic philologist and natural polyglot.

Profession or occupation

author and lecturer

Grounds for election

He has been researching and teaching Germanic language and culture for many years – see his major publications below. He speaks Old English beautifully, and provided the authentic voice of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in Michael Wood’s three-part series, King Alfred and the Anglo Saxons. He is now running online courses & study-days and is editor of The Essex Journal. 1996. An Introduction to the Old English Language and its Literature. 2000. Leechcraft: Early English Charms, Plantlore and Healing. 2004. First Steps in Old English (3rd ed.). 2009. Mead Hall: The Feasting Tradition in Anglo-Saxon England (2nd ed.). 2010. et al., Wayland's Work: Anglo-Saxon Art, Myth and Material Culture 4th-7th Century. 2011. The Elder Gods: The Otherworld of Early England. 2013. & P. Mortimer, Remaking the Sutton Hoo Stone: The Ansell-Roper Replica and Its Context. 2016. Runes: Literacy in the Germanic Iron Age. 2019. Runes: L'Alphabétisation Durant l'Âge Du Fer Germanique.

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