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by Comyn
Wed Oct 30, 2024 6:05 pm
Forum: Event Newsletters
Topic: Samhain 2024 Election Results
Replies: 1
Views: 119

Re: Samhain 2024 Election Results

I will adjust the assigned roles to reflect the new roster as I find time to do so (this changes the little assigned icon on your profile if you hold an office). The only one which really matters is Sencha because only the Sencha can post minutes in the Meeting Meetings forum.
by Comyn
Mon Sep 23, 2024 9:21 am
Forum: Event Newsletters
Topic: Fall Thyng 2024
Replies: 0
Views: 68

Fall Thyng 2024

Comyn, Sabha, Brogan, Guthrum, and Foinoulla attended the Norseland Fall Thyng assembly to pay respects to Moriah and Wolfgang and help to send them to Valhalla. We believe this is just the Norse word for the otherworld. Comyn arrived by mid-day on Friday and set up his 8 by 10 wall, 2 Clann tables,...
by Comyn
Tue Sep 10, 2024 6:36 am
Forum: General Topics
Topic: La Tene style helm found in Poland
Replies: 0
Views: 71

La Tene style helm found in Poland

Rare La Tene style Celtic helm and several other items have been discovered in Poland at Łysa Góra which expands the known area of Celtic influence into northern Poland. The helm is a very rare type and one of the few examples known to exist. Evidence of a defensive settlement spanning roughly three...
by Comyn
Sun Aug 11, 2024 12:21 pm
Forum: General Topics
Topic: The Big Book of Torcs (website)
Replies: 0
Views: 1504

The Big Book of Torcs (website)

Lots of great information about torcs and their making to be found at this website: https://bigbookoftorcs.com/ You can find links to open access papers about torcs and lots of shorter articles. Reason for posting is that Ford Hallam, one of the goldsmiths involved in the project sadly passed away a...
by Comyn
Sun Jun 04, 2023 8:54 am
Forum: General Topics
Topic: Video: Comparing Gaulish with some modern Celtic languages
Replies: 0
Views: 5194

Video: Comparing Gaulish with some modern Celtic languages

Done in a sort of game show format, the host speaks out a sentence in Gaulish and speakers of various modern day Celtic languages attempt to figure out the meaning. They don't have a dedicated Irish speaker but the Manx teacher also speaks Irish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI_4GOYFlVc Gaulish.p...
by Comyn
Thu Mar 02, 2023 7:04 pm
Forum: General Topics
Topic: Bronze coin purse
Replies: 0
Views: 4093

Bronze coin purse

Archaeological State Collection in Munich Found in Gde. Manching, district Pfaffenhofen ad Ilm, Reg.-Bez. Upper Bavaria in 1972 circa 200BC 4.3x3.3 cm It was originally sealed with an organic material, presumably a leather strap. The diameter of the smallest coin is 6.5mm coin-purse.png from https:/...
by Comyn
Wed Jul 13, 2022 8:46 pm
Forum: General Topics
Topic: Time Team at Emain Macha
Replies: 0
Views: 4770

Time Team at Emain Macha

Time Team, Season 3 Episode 5 The Hunt For The Lost Irish Palace Time Team is a show that ran on Channel 4 in the UK from 1994 to 2014 (recently revived online) which did archaeological investigations over a weekend at various sites (mostly in England). The team changed from week to week but it was...
by Comyn
Wed Jun 22, 2022 11:02 am
Forum: Library
Topic: Saxons - Asser's The Life of King Alfred
Replies: 2
Views: 6049

Re: Saxons - Asser's The Life of King Alfred

It is also spelled Gothrun in some sources. He is called the "king of the pagans" by Alfred, but he actually was in England because his bid for the Danish throne had failed, so instead he led a sizable army of Danes in the 870s across England choosing a new locale (about 100 miles away) ea...
by Comyn
Wed Jun 22, 2022 9:09 am
Forum: Library
Topic: Saxons - Asser's The Life of King Alfred
Replies: 2
Views: 6049

Saxons - Asser's The Life of King Alfred

Alfred, alone of Anglo-Saxon kings, inspired a full-length biography, written in 893, by the Welsh scholar Asser. This work contains much valuable information, and it reveals that Alfred laboured throughout under the burden of recurrent, painful illness; and beneath Asser’s rhetoric can be seen a m...
by Comyn
Sun Jun 12, 2022 6:50 pm
Forum: General Topics
Topic: Revisiting Guedelon castle
Replies: 0
Views: 4906

Revisiting Guedelon castle

It's been many years since the BBC special about this project so it's awesome to see how far they have come since then.

https://youtu.be/Ajqort8ldXA

Comyn