Comments on: Beowulf sock pattern http://boingboing.net/2011/01/30/beowulf-sock-pattern.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 26 May 2013 02:38:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/01/30/beowulf-sock-pattern.html#comment-1011968 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1011968 Forget the sock---I want to see the rest of that library!! Forget the sock—I want to see the rest of that library!!

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/01/30/beowulf-sock-pattern.html#comment-1011716 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1011716 Oh my, how exciting to have my design posted here! Deeply honored. In a fit of admiration of Benjamin Bagby, I wrote and asked if he would allow me to knit him a pair. He graciously provided me with his foot measurements and his socks are now in progress. The comment 'thaet waes god sock' nearly caused me to spew coffee on my keyboard. Thank you, fellow mediaeval geeks, just for being out there :-) Oh my, how exciting to have my design posted here! Deeply honored. In a fit of admiration of Benjamin Bagby, I wrote and asked if he would allow me to knit him a pair. He graciously provided me with his foot measurements and his socks are now in progress.

The comment ‘thaet waes god sock’ nearly caused me to spew coffee on my keyboard. Thank you, fellow mediaeval geeks, just for being out there :-)

]]> By: Gryphon http://boingboing.net/2011/01/30/beowulf-sock-pattern.html#comment-1014805 Gryphon Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1014805 I'm actually thinking of doing that myself, probably fingerless mitts... It's hard to get a good grip on monsters' arms with full mittens on :-) I’m actually thinking of doing that myself, probably fingerless mitts… It’s hard to get a good grip on monsters’ arms with full mittens on :-)

]]> By: devophill http://boingboing.net/2011/01/30/beowulf-sock-pattern.html#comment-1011749 devophill Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1011749 Wow, cool looking socks! [click through] MY EYES OH MY GOD THIS IS WHY PEOPLE HATE PAPYRUS Wow, cool looking socks!

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MY EYES OH MY GOD THIS IS WHY PEOPLE HATE PAPYRUS

]]> By: awjtawjt http://boingboing.net/2011/01/30/beowulf-sock-pattern.html#comment-1011519 awjtawjt Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1011519 Righteous. It needs an Eorth-draca pattern mixed in there somehow. Righteous. It needs an Eorth-draca pattern mixed in there somehow.

]]> By: BDiamond http://boingboing.net/2011/01/30/beowulf-sock-pattern.html#comment-1011520 BDiamond Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1011520 Is it bad that I'd rather have the books behind the sock than the sock itself? WANT. Is it bad that I’d rather have the books behind the sock than the sock itself? WANT.

]]> By: Dewi Morgan http://boingboing.net/2011/01/30/beowulf-sock-pattern.html#comment-1011524 Dewi Morgan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1011524 Is it bad that I thought the books were a terrible anachronism? Is it bad that I thought the books were a terrible anachronism?

]]> By: Tdawwg http://boingboing.net/2011/01/30/beowulf-sock-pattern.html#comment-1011531 Tdawwg Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1011531 People say that of all the socks on earth, those are the warmest, the softest on their owners' feet, and the most eager to win fame. People say that of all the socks on earth, those are the warmest, the softest on their owners’ feet, and the most eager to win fame.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/01/30/beowulf-sock-pattern.html#comment-1011534 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1011534 Excuse me a moment while I look that up on my socks. Excuse me a moment while I look that up on my socks.

]]> By: Lobster http://boingboing.net/2011/01/30/beowulf-sock-pattern.html#comment-1011537 Lobster Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1011537 LOL HWUT? LOL HWUT?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/01/30/beowulf-sock-pattern.html#comment-1154144 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1154144 I graduate with my degree in English Lit with Anglo Saxon in 2 weeks and have decided to exhibit the depths of my ofermode by attempting to knit these beauties in time :D So excited there are knitters out there as geeky as I am. :D I graduate with my degree in English Lit with Anglo Saxon in 2 weeks and have decided to exhibit the depths of my ofermode by attempting to knit these beauties in time :D So excited there are knitters out there as geeky as I am. :D

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/01/30/beowulf-sock-pattern.html#comment-1011578 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1011578 n.b.: there is only one surviving manuscript of Beowulf. It was badly damaged in the fire at Robert Cotton's library in the 18th Century; it's amazing we have the poem at all, and some parts are still missing. n.b.: there is only one surviving manuscript of Beowulf. It was badly damaged in the fire at Robert Cotton’s library in the 18th Century; it’s amazing we have the poem at all, and some parts are still missing.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/01/30/beowulf-sock-pattern.html#comment-1011838 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1011838 Is it any conicidence that "His linen socc feoll ofer bord in thaet water and scranc" is a common introductory sentence for Old Englisc students? Is it any conicidence that “His linen socc feoll ofer bord in thaet water and scranc” is a common introductory sentence for Old Englisc students?

]]> By: Gryphon http://boingboing.net/2011/01/30/beowulf-sock-pattern.html#comment-1012107 Gryphon Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1012107 It's actually not a library, but an amazing used bookshop hidden in the rural town of Trappe, MD on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay. It's called Unicorn Books (www.unicornbookshop.com) and is highly worth the trip if you're in the area. They allowed us to hold our photoshoot there for a minimal fee and we all had a horrible time concentrating while surrounded by so many treasures. I won't even mention the pile I went home with... - Gryphon It’s actually not a library, but an amazing used bookshop hidden in the rural town of Trappe, MD on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay. It’s called Unicorn Books (www.unicornbookshop.com) and is highly worth the trip if you’re in the area. They allowed us to hold our photoshoot there for a minimal fee and we all had a horrible time concentrating while surrounded by so many treasures. I won’t even mention the pile I went home with…
- Gryphon

]]> By: adamnvillani http://boingboing.net/2011/01/30/beowulf-sock-pattern.html#comment-1011611 adamnvillani Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1011611 I once saw a car with the license plate HWAET. I once saw a car with the license plate HWAET.

]]> By: bardfinn http://boingboing.net/2011/01/30/beowulf-sock-pattern.html#comment-1011612 bardfinn Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1011612 The oldest surviving manuscript of Beowulf /is/ an anachronism - It's a monk's copy of (a copy of (a copy of (recurse as many times as necessary))) a transcript of a tale told in old English from oral tradition, of the adventures of Danes and Norsemen and Geats, several centuries before the manuscript was put down on paper. -- SOCKS ZOMG WANT The oldest surviving manuscript of Beowulf /is/ an anachronism – It’s a monk’s copy of (a copy of (a copy of (recurse as many times as necessary))) a transcript of a tale told in old English from oral tradition, of the adventures of Danes and Norsemen and Geats, several centuries before the manuscript was put down on paper.

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SOCKS ZOMG WANT

]]> By: frankieboy http://boingboing.net/2011/01/30/beowulf-sock-pattern.html#comment-1012135 frankieboy Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1012135 Now that's esoteric. Now that’s esoteric.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/01/30/beowulf-sock-pattern.html#comment-1014462 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1014462 Re:Tdawwg - It wouldn't be hard (once given Sanguine Gryphon's permission of course) to create a mitten pattern based on the sock one, they translate well one to the other (I've done it with colorwork before), although gloves would be considerably more difficult - What do you say, Gryphon? Re:Tdawwg – It wouldn’t be hard (once given Sanguine Gryphon’s permission of course) to create a mitten pattern based on the sock one, they translate well one to the other (I’ve done it with colorwork before), although gloves would be considerably more difficult – What do you say, Gryphon?

]]> By: Flaminica http://boingboing.net/2011/01/30/beowulf-sock-pattern.html#comment-1011647 Flaminica Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1011647 Very impressive. I don't think a fraction of the audience here understand just how tough this pattern had to be to design. The execution is equally awesome. Sock knitting is a bitch. Very impressive. I don’t think a fraction of the audience here understand just how tough this pattern had to be to design. The execution is equally awesome. Sock knitting is a bitch.

]]> By: Tdawwg http://boingboing.net/2011/01/30/beowulf-sock-pattern.html#comment-1011667 Tdawwg Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1011667 Thaet waes god sock. Gloves would be even better, especially considering how one of Beowulf's few named men, Hondscio ("handshoe," or glove: cf. German <i>Handschuh</i>), gets eaten by Grendel during the first fight at Heorot. But that's a mere quibble, sort of like saying that Beowulf gets bloody when he kills: these are damned cool socks, well worthy of being included among the lovely plated mail, the sharp-edged swords, the trembling lyres, of which the <i>Beowulf</i>-poet sings. Thaet waes god sock.

Gloves would be even better, especially considering how one of Beowulf’s few named men, Hondscio (“handshoe,” or glove: cf. German Handschuh), gets eaten by Grendel during the first fight at Heorot. But that’s a mere quibble, sort of like saying that Beowulf gets bloody when he kills: these are damned cool socks, well worthy of being included among the lovely plated mail, the sharp-edged swords, the trembling lyres, of which the Beowulf-poet sings.

]]> By: ScuffedShoes http://boingboing.net/2011/01/30/beowulf-sock-pattern.html#comment-1012704 ScuffedShoes Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1012704 I love that the four-year-old picked up Hwaet. Reminds me of something said of a medievalist friend, "He learned his Old English where everyone should, at his mother's knee." I love that the four-year-old picked up Hwaet. Reminds me of something said of a medievalist friend, “He learned his Old English where everyone should, at his mother’s knee.”

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