A nod to St. Valentine, p’raps. . . 😁
12.02.2026 18:03
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A nod to St. Valentine, p’raps. . . 😁
A recent post from the BBC website: something fun for all my fellow runatics to read.
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
I wonder if this burial pit might have been associated with some kind of "surgical activity". . . will there be (or has there been) further investigation of the surrounding area? Where is the nearest known viking-age settlement?
Thanks for the link, Tom!
New research analyzing evidence of climatological conditions along Rome's middle-Danube limes and their possible impact on settlement and agricultural developments during the 1 - 4th century CE. Bear in mind: the past is prologue. . .
#medievalsky
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Reports of the discovery of a 19th-century runestone in northern Ontario have caught the attention of the New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/world/canada/canada-runestone-ontario.html
I've occasionally found news aggregator sites useful, but AI appears to have complicated the issue of verification (particularly when one aggregator references another). I still regret contributing to internet "noise" in this instance.
Yikes! I haven't been on BlueSky for long (and never really engaged with Twitter) and misinterpreted your post as a reply to the link that I shared yesterday: so it appears that by apologizing for cluttering your feed with AI-scraped "news", I've again cluttered your feed! I'm very sorry.
Sorry to have cluttered your feed with this "old news" (it was news to me, and the link was sent to me via a trusted source).
Please accept my apologies for cluttering your feed with this. I will check links sent to me more carefully in the future.
I’ll keep a look out!
Where/when will this appear? You appear to be engaging a topic that I like to address in my "viking medievalism(s)" seminar, so I'll be very interested in reading "your say"!
Musk and DOGE are the "neo-Vikings", carrying out smash-and-grab supposedly on behalf of a potentate who hired them, but now trying to set themselves up (incompetently) in business for themselves . . . Drumpf is a Merovingian "king" whose power lies in having his followers parade him in an ox-cart.
Or, better yet: "A History of the North Sea Region during the Viking Age."
"The History of the North Sea Region during the Viking Age."
Sad new this morning from Nova Scotia: RIP, Birgitta Wallace Ferguson.
#medievalsky
www.dignitymemorial.com/en-ca/obitua...
Terrific contributions by Tim Geelhaar, Sigrun Borgen Wik, and Miriam Tveit!
Moisture seems a likely culprit to account for the losses, but the damage doesn't conform to a pattern that I'd expect if the document had been stored folded originally. It would be interesting to see whether the 13th-century endorsement was in the same position as the (earlier?) endorsement. . .
Bond noted that one of the endorsements was in a 12th-century hand, but do you think that the other was contemporary with either the creation or "restoration" of this charter? 3/3
I've only Bond's facsimile to judge by, but it appears that the charter had been folded at some point, but I find it difficult to understand how this localized loss might have "naturally" occurred had it been stored folded originally. Did you notice the position of the endorsements? 2/3
An interesting analysis, Dr. Firth. The locations of the lost sections in the right half of the physical document raise questions in my mind re. whether it had originally been stored unfolded or scrolled in Much Wenlock's (or Shrewsbury's) archive which might account for the localized damage. . .
seems a more productive approach to my mind.
. . . which to my mind begs the question of who in medieval society/-ies was "independent", or even whether "independence" was considered to be a desirable condition/characteristic? Contemplating characteristics of power (as well as detecting/observing signs of "agency" . . .
Dr. Hodgson's presentation is very thought-provoking, with "actionable" corrective suggestions for teaching aspects of medieval history (particularly, though not exclusively, at an introductory level). I'd quibble with her suggested substitution of "agency" with "independence", however . . .
This new online DB from the Swedish National Heritage Board looks like a -very good- resource indeed:
#medievalists
www.gotlandicpicturestones.se/s/index/page...
Here's news of an upcoming two-day online colloquium sponsored by the Dictionary of Old English. Registration information is available via the webpage that I've linked to below:
epinal-erfurt.artsci.utoronto.ca/index.php/ea...
#medievalists
#medievalsky
Newly published research provides new evidence for a 'mini Ice Age' in the 6th-century CE: granite from Greenland that likely "rafted" on icebergs to Iceland and deposited in a datable layer. Here's a link to the recent article in -Geology-:
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/...
Some years ago, Amanda and I picked this up at the AGO. We were both older than twelve at the time, but haven’t actually completed it (yet).
What's really needed, however, is a modern edition of the full Latin text of both Greater and Little DB, , ,