#vikingage — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #vikingage, aggregated by home.social.
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🚢🔍 Oh, look! A Norwegian mound hides a ship that predates the Viking Age! But wait, you can't read about it because the article is as accessible as a sunken treasure chest—guarded by a 400 Bad Request Kraken. 🗝️💥 Maybe next time, #archaeology will come with fewer server errors and more ancient spoilers. 😂
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-monumental-ship-burial-beneath-ancient.html #NorwegianMound #ShipDiscovery #VikingAge #ServerErrors #AncientSecrets #HackerNews #ngated -
I've made another update of my runestone website. It is now backed by a data file making it a lot easier to add new pages.
I also added a few new pages, and updated some pages with new photos and texts.
Among the new and changed pages are: Sö 338, GR 1, N A222, DR 271, U 1125, U 785, U 778, Sö 96.
Unfortunately I also had to scale down photos as bots are wasting my resources. I'm now above the free tier for the outgoing data transfer, so I might have to start paying or they'll shut down the site.
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My copy of the 2nd edition of The Poetic Edda translation by Jackson Crawford finally arrived!
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I updated all the runestone pages to use proper fonts for the inscription and transliteration on VarangianBiker.com and it looks so much better now.
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Vast Viking burial ground with ship burials uncovered in Halland, Sweden
Archaeologists have unearthed a vast Viking Age burial ground near Varberg in Halland County, Sweden, during what began as an investigation of a Stone Age settlement. Initially, the team was conducting a routine preliminary examination for the installation of new water pipes and a roundabout..
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2024/10/viking-burial-ground-uncovered-in-halland/
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#archaeology #halland #stoneage #vikingage #vikings #vikingburial
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Medieval walrus ivory hint at Viking trade with Indigenous Americans centuries before Columbus
A recent study reveals that Viking hunters, in search of walrus ivory, ventured deep into the High Arctic, where they likely encountered the Thule Inuit, a group of Indigenous North Americans who inhabited regions of modern-day Greenland and Canada...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2024/10/walrus-ivory-hint-at-viking-trade-with-indigenous-americans/
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#archaeology #medieval #anthropology #walrus #vikingage #vikings #christophercolumbus
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I sorted all the runestone pictures on my phone into a separate album for each stone. And a folder for each region. There are pictures for 100 runestones. I have pictures from more stones, but they are on an external harddrive.
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🧵 4/ And finally ending the #ResearchSupportPartnershipUiO #Wednesday with a guidance session on how to integrate a digital component into a joint BA/MA course for the spring semester. After a couple of suggestions based on the content and the learning outcomes of the course, we ended up w/ trying #Recogito, a platform for #Annotation of all kinds of historical and other sources. Students will be working w/ #MedievalHistory from the #VikingAge and the #100YearsWar. Exciting!
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#AWOOO!! We just got our 100th individual Backer to our crowdfunder for #VikingAge #Dogs and #Horses - you are all incredible and special thanks to you all! The crowdfunder is open until 10pm (Irish time) 31st August 2023. The Backer's naming rights for dogs/horse going fast!
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I was idly scrolling through my screencaps, and found this little plot bunny. Will gladly help with background info/research if anyone picks it up.
(I never saved the rest of the text, but I suspect it's dried apricots I'm thinking of.)
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Archaeologists found a 1,500-year-old sandal frozen in Norwegian ice - Enlarge / Conservation efforts for the shoe included careful reshaping ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1850430 #ancientpeopledidstuff #medievaleurope #ancienteurope #archaeology #glacialmelt #middleages #vikingage #glaciers #science #ironage #norway
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Vikings were in North America by 1021 CE - Enlarge / Aerial image of L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, Canada. (cr... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1805958 #radiocarbondating #dendrochronology #lanseauxmeadows #northamerica #archaeology #cosmicrays #vikingage #science #vikings