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![Credit: Jérémie LeBlanc, Université Saint-Paul Wormholes in a medieval manuscript.](https://www.southampton.ac.uk/static-images/wormhole404.jpg)
Is it lost in a wormhole?
The modern concept of the wormhole comes from the tunnels eaten through the pages of manuscripts and printed books by bookworms.
An Anglo-Saxon riddle complains about this ‘thief in the darkness’ eating glorious words but never being the wiser. The teachers and researchers in our Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture don’t make the same mistake.