What would Dante have thought about free speech? How would Martin Luther have coped with the internet? Would Hildegard von Bingen have been a proponent of civil rights?

These are the kinds of questions that WWWD? aims to answer. Medieval thought has a lot to tell us about the world surrounding us, and this blog's contributors want to give you some idea of how their favourite medieval figures might have reacted to the news and issues that are current today.

Our Anglo-Saxon commentators are enjoying giving you their perspectives, and we'd love to recruit a few more writers to provide views from other parts of the medieval world! If you'd like to contribute to WWWD? once in a while, please tell us about it.

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Never between friends?



Another crossword for your delectation. Click on the image for better resolution. Enjoy!

Across
1: Wind in Central North-East finds bard. (7)
4: Scottish poet's dingy drinking hole. (6)
8: Small consideration for you elderly. (4)
9: Robbery laws keep jewel safe. (5)
10: Parasitic healer. (5)
11: Small spear's movement is informally done. (4)
12: Hear a complaint? Oh, stuck on mead, perhaps? (4)
13: Community for alchemists and others... Amazing! (3)
14: Fragile, without extra money for Henryson poem. (5)
16: (see 21 down)
17: Monarch turns down longish road. (6, 9)
19: Exchange your diminished pious dead. (6)
20 (& 7 down): Pip's own realm is strange allegory. (5, 7)
22: Are you ancient, lacking energy? Farewell, then! (3)
23: Archetypal character is capable, they tell us. (4)
24: Horse's hipbone carries Viking raiders. (4)
25: 1, 2, 3 creators. (5)
26: Turns records? (5)
27: Suspend changes with loss of churches. (4)
28: Different angles in Gregorian thought. (6)
29: Funny bare lad is this French thinker. (7)

Down
2: Prayer series is new in Latin - English is central. (6)
3: Girl, very angry, provides alternative site for Old English poem. (8, 5)
5: Agincourt's winning points, as required, file South. (6)
6: Drunken pariah - go to buy Margery's book. (13)
7: (see 20 across)
9: Disease on a pubic bulge? Upsetting! (7, 6)
15: Poet, not dead, shut out. (3)
17: Mail is endless pull and jerk. (7)
18: Go out with bishop's seat. (3)
19: Sorcerer in Summer linens. (6)
21 (& 16 across) Brigand peers at Medieval Germans. (6, 6)