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Kate Wiles

Ph.D. in Medieval Studies, researcher, writer, language consultant

Kate Wiles has a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies with a background in Linguistics and historical languages. She researches and writes on all aspects of Linguistics, Medieval History, and Medieval Manuscripts, with particular interest in scribes, place-names, and filthy pictures in manuscripts. Kate is also the language consultant for The History Channel series Vikings, and currently spends a lot of her time finding imaginative ways to curse in dead languages.

April 20, 2014

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