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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>I am pleased to pass on information for
the next presentation from the Medieval Fair Free Lecture Series and this topic
promises to be of special interest to our Nordic, Slavic, English and Maritime
folks:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=6
face="Lucida Calligraphy"><span style='font-size:28.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy";
font-weight:bold'>"What the Middle Ages knew that the Renaissance forgot:
Cultural continuity in the Baltic/North Sea region circa 1000 A.D.”</span></font></b><font
size=6 face="Lucida Calligraphy"><span style='font-size:28.0pt;font-family:
"Lucida Calligraphy"'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=5 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Calibri;
font-weight:bold'>Medieval Fair Free Lecture Series<o:p></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=5
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:
bold'>Friday February 17<sup>th</sup>, 6:30 pm at the Norman Public Library <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=5
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>A/B Room, 225
N. Webster<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=4 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:Calibri;font-weight:bold'>Professor Randi Eldevik of Oklahoma State
University. </span></font></b><font size=4 face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>King Canute, who in the first half
of the eleventh century ruled a North Sea empire comprising not only Denmark
and Norway but also England, would have been surprised to know that only five
hundred years later, English sailors thought they had just
"discovered" a northern sea route to the Slavic countries.
Half-Slavic on his mother's side, Canute would have taken for granted the easy
access to Slavic territory that every seafaring man in the North knew
about--and England belonged very much to the North. A bit later in the
eleventh century, the Norwegian king and adventurer Harald Hardrada, who had
Slavic connections through marriage--his late wife had been a daughter of
Jaroslav, ruler of Kiev--found it entirely natural to turn his gaze westward
and set his sights on England as an objective of conquest. In those days,
the farther one went toward the Arctic Circle; the closer was the convergence
of East and West. Five hundred years later, lands and seas had not
physically changed but cultural alignments had shifted, and the thread of
continuity that once existed from Greenland to the Baltic had been broken.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Calibri'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=4
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:
bold'>Come learn more about the Middle Ages just for the fun of learning!
No papers, no tests, just interesting information about life long ago. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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font-family:Calibri'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>For more information contact Ann Marie Eckart at The
Medieval Fair, </span></font><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'><a href="mailto:ameckart@ou.edu"
title="mailto:ameckart@ou.edu"><font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>ameckart@ou.edu</span></font></a></span></font><font
size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>,
405-325-8610 or visit our website MedievalFair.org<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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