makingawarrior.bsky.social
Research project @Oslo/Uppsala/Reykjavík/Copenhagen Examining viking warriorhood and its representations past and present Project info: https://www.khm.uio.no/english/research/projects/making-a-warrior
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@makingawarrior.bsky.socialI am very confused. #slopsism - the art of making art that an AI would never think of making.
Show PostRan into an unexpected runic inscription (of sorts) this week in the Society of Antiquaries of London. In the lobby hangs a portrait of Humfrey Wanley, librarian of the Harleian library, surrounded by various antiquities. The work was painted by Thomas Hill in c. 1711.
Show Post"Reading the Bones To Make His Bread: Scrying and Future Sight in Medieval Cooking"
Show PostProbably would have been drier to swim, but the site of the viking burial mound at Kingscross Point, overlooking Lamlash Bay on Arran, is worth the trek. A furnished cremation grave was excavated here in 1909, and has been dated to the mid/late ninth century
Show PostI started using the term "rainbow connection to describe this type of shoddy historical thinking in 2017 slate.com/news-and-pol...
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