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TAG 2025 @ York @tag2025york.bsky.social · 11h

Are you a student at a UK university and looking for support to come to TAG York? Did you know the Royal Archaeological Institute Cheney Bursary is available to support you?

You can find more details here: www.royalarchinst.org/grants/bursa...

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Bursaries

Cheney Bursaries for StudentsAs a result of a bequest left by Frank Cheney, the Institute has a fund to enable students that attend a UK university to attend RAI Meetings and conferences. Individuals ...

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NorseMap @norsemap.bsky.social · 5d

NorseMap published a short piece in 'The Conversation' about the use of Valhalla in contemporary political discourse.

theconversation.com/see-you-in-v...

‘See you in Valhalla’: how the FBI director waded into the far-right’s obsession with the Vikings

Was the FBI chief sending a message to white supremacists? It’s more likely Patel’s Valhalla reference was a clumsy attempt to call Kirk a hero.

theconversation.com

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Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 4d

BREAKING: Heroic police officers save public from this terrifying terrorist who was holding a sign the government doesn’t like x

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Nik Gunn @nikgunn.bsky.social · 5d

Why do people keep making the dullest looking adaptations of medieval stories imaginable. Just do yourself a favour and watch Robin of Sherwood on ITV player instead.

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Robin Hood - Official Trailer (2025) Jack Patten, Sean Bean, Lauren McQueen

YouTube video by IGN

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Dr Tom Horne @hornesupremacy.bsky.social · 6d

#Viking-Age tafl board game pieces from Birka grave Bj 523. Made from glass, the 'king' piece is the most prominent, and features prominent black eyes on its head.

My 📷 | Ref. Historiska museet

Glass tafl gaming pieces, with a larger 'king' piece.

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Chris Callow @chriscallow.bsky.social · 5d

There’s still room to suggest they were Scandinavians who went shopping in Frisia?

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Chris Callow @chriscallow.bsky.social · 5d

Amazing. Roughly how far apart were the find spots?

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Chris Callow @chriscallow.bsky.social · 7d

This is very Sturlunga saga! Lots of elite deacons and priests knocking around.

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Chris Callow @chriscallow.bsky.social · 8d

Me too. It will have been more useful than Auðun’s bear.

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Chris Callow @chriscallow.bsky.social · 8d

This is from a beautifully succinct miracle story in the A version of Guðmundar saga. Guðmundr cures the ram that is ill by saying prayers and placing an effigy of Saint Jón on the ram.

Dictionary of Old Norse Prose @onp.ku.dk · 8d

dauðvána (adj.): 14 cits, e.g. expected to die, at the point of death // døden nær, dødsens ‘Kolbeinn atte rut eiɴ þann. er gersime var i. ok honum þotte goðr. Hrvtriɴ tok sott er køllut var kringlo sott. ok varð dauðuana’ (GBp in AM 399 4°) onp.ku.dk/o14181 #OldNorse

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Anglesey History @angleseyhistory.bsky.social · 8d

Help save local Welsh placenames on new digital map.
Helpu i achub enwau lleoedd lleol Cymru ar fap digidol newydd.
datamap.gov.wales/survey/wpnc/...

Record Welsh Place Names | DataMapWales

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 9d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 12d

Time for me to deploy my expertise from having worked with databases of individuals and their data in the public sector: whatever you might imagine will be happening behind the scenes of a digital ID card, the actual reality of that dataset is going to be an information governance nightmare.

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Rutger K. 🟥 @anotheraspirin.bsky.social · 12d

This is a problem.

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Ny Björn Gustafsson @nybjorn.bsky.social · 12d

An older but nonetheless very nice Norwegian find for #FindsFriday:

An ornamented (and burnt) bone fragment from Reistad in Levanger, Trøndelag. Found 1935 in a burial mound. The pelleted body implies Mammen-style (c. ~1000 CE).

More here: www.unimus.no/portal/#/thi...

(📸: CC BY-SA 4.0)

Fragment of a burnt Viking-period ornamented bone plate with entwined animals in Mammen-esque style.

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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · 13d

Free book download of collected papers on Knowledge Commons ‘No Horns on their Helmets? essays on the Insular Viking Age’ #medievalsky #history #vikingsky #archaeology works.hcommons.org/records/xc6k...

No Horns on their Helmets? Essays on the Insular Viking Age

Collected papers, including 1 An imaginary viking-raid on Skye in 795? 2 Annals, armies, and artistry: 'The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle', 865–96 3 'Hiberno-Norwegians' and 'Anglo-Danes': anachronistic ethni...

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 13d

The vacuum at highest levels in talking about this dark turn in British life over the last few months HAS to end.

Kriszta Satori @fulelo.bsky.social · 13d

More and more such incidents happening daily
www.bbc.com/news/article...

'Kids racially abused me and the adults' reaction broke me'

Sophia Choudry says she is "shaken" and "heartbroken" after being racially abused on the Elizabeth line.

www.bbc.com

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Ny Björn Gustafsson @nybjorn.bsky.social · 14d

New podcast (in 🇸🇪-ish) on the recent excavation at Björkö, often called Birka.

lenakonig111.podbean.com/e/birka-utgr...

155. BIRKA - arkeologisk utgrävning vid Korshamn | Arkeologi & Historia

Arkeologisk utgrävning på Birka! I det här avsnittet ska vi till Korshamn som ligger på Björkö i Mälaren. Björkö är egentligen mest känd för den vikingatida staden Birka, men på andra sidan ön gömmer ...

lenakonig111.podbean.com

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Chris Callow @chriscallow.bsky.social · 15d

*Old Norse course, of course!

Chris Callow @chriscallow.bsky.social · 15d

An Old Norse taught be Dr Ryder Patzuk Russell. Ryder is excellent!
Please share.
www.paideiainstitute.org/introduction...

Introduction to Old Norse Language and Literature

Living Latin and Ancient Greek

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Chris Callow @chriscallow.bsky.social · 16d

Please log into this password-protected system you’ve never used before to watch the video.

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Chris Callow @chriscallow.bsky.social · 18d

The farm I worked on as a teenager had a few former ponds that had been filled in. You could tell where they were because the crops on those spots were poor. Better to recreate the pond!

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 19d

Opinium asked 500 ethnic minority respondents about racism and flags for ITV Good Morning Britain

www.opinium.com/resource-cen...

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Katherine CM Cross @kcross.bsky.social · 19d

Boydell & Brewer have a 40% sae on paperbacks with code PB40!

You could, for example, get Heirs of the Vikings for £16.19

boydellandbrewer.com/book/heirs-o...

Heirs of the Vikings

Examination of text concerning the vikings reveals much about their origin myth and legend.

boydellandbrewer.com

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Andy Whiting @awdorset.bsky.social · 21d

'Forgotten' royal castle uncovered on Scottish isle www.bbc.com/news/article...

'Forgotten' royal castle uncovered at Finlaggan on Islay

Archaeologists say the fortress was owned by ancestors of Scotland's medieval Lord of the Isles.

www.bbc.com

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