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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 5d

It’s Kanelbullens Dag, that’s to say, Cinnamon Bun Day in Sweden. And while I mean no disrespect to Norway and Iceland, who also mark this day, it’s Swedish Cinnamon Buns that are #RecipeOfTheDay!
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Swedish Cinnamon Buns

Swedish Cinnamon Buns are not radically different from other cinnamon buns (and do see my Norwegian Cinnamon Buns), but they do diverge in one fundamental way: rather than having the fluffiness of, sa...

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Steve A @grungeviking.bsky.social · 5d

Might be interesting for anyone who saw Andy Woods’ @yorkmedieval.bsky.social lecture this week….

Jane Kershaw @jk-viking.bsky.social · Aug 20

A piece in The Conversation, contextualising our results from the Bedale hoard

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Vikings were captivated by silver – our new analysis of their precious loot reveals how far they travelled to get it

New analysis of silver items in the Bedale hoard reveals Scandinavians travelled to the east to trade much earlier than previously thought.

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Jane Kershaw @jk-viking.bsky.social · Aug 29

Lots here for Viking folks - new aDNA evidence for several infectious diseases among Viking-Age populations in Scandinavia, including malaria, leprosy and louse-borne relapsing fever.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The spatiotemporal distribution of human pathogens in ancient Eurasia - Nature

Screening shotgun-sequencing data from ancient humans covering 37,000 years of Eurasian history uncovers the widespread presence of ancient bacterial, viral and parasite DNA and zoonotic pathogens coi...

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Steve A @grungeviking.bsky.social · Aug 31

I’m a bit surprised because Frank never seemed very keen on Eccles. But I reckon we can trust him to sort a decent midfield. And hopefully this means some cash to (very quickly) fix the hole at the back too

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Steve A @grungeviking.bsky.social · Aug 23

Not on your own mate

Steve A @grungeviking.bsky.social · Aug 23

Buzzing. Absolutely buzzing. #pusb

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Trix @trixranderson.bsky.social · Jul 18

Well, I slacked off last week's #FindsFriday as I went to see the Yorkshire Museum's 'Viking North' exhibition (and had a chat with @alexharvv.bsky.social). Apologies for the neglect, but it was glorious :)

A lot of people were talking about this Aldwark find, so I thought we'd look at it today. /1

A photograph showing several fragments of decorative copper-alloy sheet in a museum case. The sheet is pierced, and has been made into an openwork design of wedges and circles.

A wider photograph of the museum case containing the decorative sheet.

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Steve A @grungeviking.bsky.social · Jul 17

Aw… 😊

Steve A @grungeviking.bsky.social · Jul 17

It wasn’t just you! 🤣

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Steve A @grungeviking.bsky.social · Mar 20

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Food and cooking in Icelandic literature and law

The article looks at the way that cooking and food are discussed in a variety of sagas and medieval legal texts. What can the ways that cooking, foods, cooking equipment and eating are presented in th...

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Steve A @grungeviking.bsky.social · Jun 13

Thanks for the plug! I don’t think my little bit of thinking out loud is worth equal-billing with Aina’s research though! I should also mention Hanna Lovise Aannestad who made similar suggestions about the role of exotics in her PhD, and also in this article; www.brepolsonline.net/doi/10.1484/...

The Allure of the Foreign. The Social and Cultural Dimension of Imports in Scandinavia in the Viking Age: Viking and Medieval Scandinavia: Vol 14

In this article, I discuss the significance of foreign objects and foreign material culture in Viking-Age Scandinavia. Changes in the use of imported objects as dress accessories show that Scandinavia...

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Steve A @grungeviking.bsky.social · Jun 1

My eldest seems to have downloaded the AFL equivalent of FIFA so I’m hoping he can explain it to me…

Steve A @grungeviking.bsky.social · May 28

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We Can Make an Impact.

End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University

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Steve A @grungeviking.bsky.social · May 19

You don’t think you need to read a horror story about IKEA, but you do. It’s so silly, and so good

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Steve A @grungeviking.bsky.social · May 14

Fantastic piece that. 👏 👏 👏 To be read with the Enemy playing in the background

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Steve A @grungeviking.bsky.social · May 11

But like you i have no real interest in the PL itself. The only top-flight season i enjoyed anywhere near as much as the last few years was the Keane and Hadji one. And I found the PL a lot more exciting then than I do now.

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Steve A @grungeviking.bsky.social · May 11

For me it’s about completing a cycle - it would be finally coming good on the ‘we’ll be back’ promise, and it would also draw the line under the Robins chapter that it deserves. I’d like us to win something again. And a chance at financial stability would be nice.

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Steve A @grungeviking.bsky.social · May 10

I’m not sure anyone can handle him when he’s in that kind of mood- unreal first half especially

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Steve A @grungeviking.bsky.social · Apr 26

Fancied a change from Vikings…

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Steve A @grungeviking.bsky.social · Mar 20

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How easy is it to identify fragments of deer antler to species level?

This article reflects on a series of controlled investigations and blind tests, looking at the variation in internal structure and other characteristics of antler, along the length of a single antler,...

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Steve A @grungeviking.bsky.social · Mar 20

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Late Iron Age Whaling in Scandinavia

New scientific methods for identifying raw materials demonstrate the consistent use of whalebone- most particularly the North Atlantic Right Whale - in making gaming pieces in Iron-Age Scandinavia. Co...

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Steve A @grungeviking.bsky.social · Apr 25

*if* obviously. You wouldn’t know I’d been posting about it all day…

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Steve A @grungeviking.bsky.social · Apr 25

And here’s the actual research it’s all based on: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

#openaccess @plos.org

Unique osteological evidence for human-animal gladiatorial combat in Roman Britain

The spectacle of Roman gladiatorial combat captures the public imagination and elicits significant scholarly interest. Skeletal evidence associated with gladiatorial combat is rare, with most evidence...

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Steve A @grungeviking.bsky.social · Apr 25

Been spending most of today promoting this- nice story of you’ve not yet seen it:

#romans #archaeology #gladiators #lions #newresearch

www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Study reveals skeletal evidence of Roman gladiator bitten by lion in combat

Bite marks found on a skeleton discovered in a Roman cemetery in York have revealed the first archaeological evidence of gladiatorial combat between a human and a lion.

www.york.ac.uk

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