home.social

#vikingships — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #vikingships, aggregated by home.social.

  1. CW: Linguistics, fruit-based pun

    It's an urban myth that the largest per capita producer of bananas in Europe is Iceland, but their ancestors in the Nordic Bronze Age were no stranger to bannaną.

    en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconst

    #ProtoGermanic #NordicBronzeAge #IndoEuropeanLanguages #Puns #BananaBoats #VikingShips #StoneInscription #Linguistics

  2. Archaeologists in Norway are about to dig up a Viking ship - Enlarge / If Scandinavian archaeology needed a logo, this outline would be a good one. (credit: NIK... more: arstechnica.com/?p=1679363 #groundpenetratingradar #maritimearchaeology #nauticalarchaeology #archaeology #vikingships #gravegoods #shipgraves #vikingage #science #vikings #norway