“Thrymsa, a coin [not] in circulation in northern England”
Channel: Denis Sukhino-Khomenko
Date: 2022-03-03

In this presentation, I expound on the so-called Norðleoda laga, or the “laws of the Northern People” (presumably the Northumbrians), itself part of the provisionally called “Compilation on status”. I argue that not only was the second half written by the York Archbishop Wulfstan (d. 1023), but all of the text as we have it. In the fist part, Wulfstan resorted to an otherwise obscure monetary unit of “thrymsa”. I argue that this was done in order to convey a flavour of archaism, since for Wulfstan’s ideologeme of an “orderly society” the past was the “golden age”, and (pseudo)tradition the main justification for his vision. The full published of this paper can be found here: https://www.academia.edu/52986917/_Thrymsa_a_coin_not_in_circulation_in_northern_England_Source_criticism_of_archbishop_Wulfstan_s_Norðleoda_laga_and_its_monetary_systems_in_the_way_of_social_history_England_10_11th_centuries_

This presentation was held on the 8th day of Putin’s invasion in Ukraine in 2022. This war is horrendous, inhumane, uncalled for, brutal, and has no justification. It cannot have. This is a war of one man, Vladimir Putin, and his lickspittle clique who have usurped Russian people’s sovereignty and have been terrorising them for two decades. This is not the Russian people’s war. We condemn it with all our hearts! I do not renounce my Russianness. I do not shirk the responsibility we all bear as Russians. I do not excuse or exculpate Russian people. Yet we are still people. Our losses are incomparable with the catastrophic toll on the Ukrainian people and their atrocities. We stand by the Ukrainian people and pray for their victory. 42 million people are now being attacked by a madman with a nuke and lost grip on reality or humanity. 142 million, at the same time, are being held his brain-washed hostages. By this presentation, I hope to among other things humbly state: we are still people, we too are terrified and terrorised by the warmongering madmen who claim to be our government, and we still hope to contribute to the world and peace in it — we implore you to not forsake us, to not sever cultural, friendly, academic, and humane ties with us. Let us please help restore Ukraine by contributing to the global GDP and with our taxes, rather than leave us pushed to the wall and left balancing at the edge of survival in an isolated, impoverished, propagated and terrorised dictatorship! Thank you all! Victory and glory to Ukraine! 🇺🇦