History Meme Round Up

Since most of the branches of the history meme didn’t link to the original post (and its been over 10 days), here is a summary of the new branches:

I was tagged by Jonathan Jarret who did Count Borrell II.

• He also tagged Antiquarian’s Attic who did a very nice meme on Gruffydd ap Cynan.

I did St Oswald of Northumbria on December 30.

I tagged:

• Jennifer Lynn Jordan who did Prester John.
• Derek the Anglican who did Aelfric Bata (and John-Julian put up a wacky story of St John of Beverly in Derek’s comments).
  • And he tagged LutherPunk who did the pirate Jean Lafitte.
  • Caelius Spinator did geologist William Smith.
• Larry Swain who did the other Aelfric, of Eynsham.
• Nicola Griffith who did St Hild.

Readers did:

• Gabriele Campbell did King Heinrich IV
  • And she tagged Kristen Campbell who did St. Columba
• Wynn Bexton did Philip Arridaios, half-brother of Alexander the Great.

I’ll update this post if any others I tagged put up their meme. Looks like there is a nice spread of historical figures here and by my count, two mutations. One mutation is the choice of a fictional character (Prester John) and the second is the list of seven things novelist Nicola Griffith would like to know about St Hild. I have to say I expected a few literary mutations…. I think that someday we could use another round of tagging to get beyond a few of the usual suspects. 😉