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ALT An iPhone showing the Wordhord app with the word dragon in a search field and the word lig-draca displayed above with the definition flame-dragon or fire-breathing dragon and a medieval manuscript image of a red dragon. The phone sits on a hardcover copy of The Deorhord open to a page with a heading “Where a dragon belongs”.
ALT A smiling, red-haired, glasses-wearing, thirty-something woman with bird earrings holds a green and gold book, "The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary" by Hana Videen, on a wooden fence; the background is a forest with autumn colours.
ALT Poster with an image of ‘The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary’ by Hana Videen and the author’s photo. Book Launch and Signing at Type Books, 883 Queen Street West, on Tuesday February 20th at 7 PM.
ALT Green and gold square cover version of "The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary" by Hana Videen, depicting a strange toothy rhino-like creature, a dove, some ants, a finned horse-like creature and a spider.
ALT Two books by Hana Videen side by side: “The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English” (red and white with shiny gold trim) and “The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary” (green and white with shiny gold trim).
ALT A red phone case and a black t-shirt have the Old English Wordhord logo (the dragon or word wyrm) with 'est. 2013'; another t-shirt says 'that's neorxnawang!' in gold with Old English words in various colours surrounding it.
ALT A black t-shirt with my I Like To Move It logo with DDR up and down arrows in white with pink and purple outlines next to a purple t-shirt with my ShapeUp logo with 90s style triangles and squiggles also in pink and purple.
ALT macOS screenshot showing Old English Wordhord widgets in multiple sizes. Each has the word of the day hēof-sīþ, masculine noun, a lamentable condition. They also have a medieval manuscript illustration of two men shooting arrows at St Sebastian; the saint is tied to a tree, bleeding from many wounds.
ALT A stack of the book “The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary” by Hana Videen, with one book on top of the stack showing the front cover and another book leaning against it showing the back cover, with plants in the background. The cover is green and gold, decorated with various animals and strange creatures in wood-cut style illustrations, and the frame around the text contains Old English words. The blurb on the back says “Why did the earn (eagle) fly to the sun? Where do you find henna (hens) that burst into flame? How do you defeat an ylp (elephant)? And what on earth is a moon-head? Welcome to the strange and delightful world of Old English animals - the ordinary, the extraordinary, the good, the bad and the baffling…”
ALT An iPhone with the Old English word of the day lock screen widgets. The inline widget above the date shows a dragon symbol and the word fyrhþ-glēaw. The larger rectangular widget below the time has the same word and the definition wise-minded, prudent. The iPhone sits on an old hand-ruled ledger full of handwritten notes.
ALT An iPhone in StandBy mode showing the Old English word of the day widget on the left. þweora, crossness, peevishness. Today's date is on the left. The iPhone sits at the back of a metal ink well with a feather in it on an old wooden desk.
ALT A book, “The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary”, by Hana Videen, author of “The Wordhord”, against a red background with a gold border, with a griffin in the bottom left corner and a dove in the upper right. Profile Books logo is at the bottom right. The title and author’s name are written inside an arched window shape of Old English words, surrounded by wood-cut style illustrations in green and gold, each in its own compartment but overlapping slightly: a wolf, a whale, a dove, a crocodile-like creature, a dog-headed person holding a cross, a deer, a four-legged creature with three horns on its forehead, a phoenix in a burning nest, a medieval woman writing, a snake, and a griffin.
