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- Mon Sep 23, 2024 9:21 am
- Forum: Event Newsletters
- Topic: Fall Thyng 2024
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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,...
- Tue Sep 10, 2024 6:36 am
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: La Tene style helm found in Poland
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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...
- Sun Aug 11, 2024 12:21 pm
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: The Big Book of Torcs (website)
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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...
- Sun Jun 04, 2023 8:54 am
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: Video: Comparing Gaulish with some modern Celtic languages
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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...
- Thu Mar 02, 2023 7:04 pm
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: Bronze coin purse
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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:/...
- Wed Jul 13, 2022 8:46 pm
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: Time Team at Emain Macha
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- Views: 4740
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...
- Wed Jun 22, 2022 11:02 am
- Forum: Library
- Topic: Saxons - Asser's The Life of King Alfred
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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...
- Wed Jun 22, 2022 9:09 am
- Forum: Library
- Topic: Saxons - Asser's The Life of King Alfred
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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...
- Sun Jun 12, 2022 6:50 pm
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: Revisiting Guedelon castle
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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
https://youtu.be/Ajqort8ldXA
Comyn
- Tue Feb 01, 2022 6:46 am
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: Virtual Winter University - Midrealm (via zoom)
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Virtual Winter University - Midrealm (via zoom)
Midrealm's winter RUM event in Fairborn Ohio is scheduled for Feb 12, 2022
Of interest to others is that their A&S will have a virtual component.
Zoom links to be published on Feb 9 on their schedule page:
The schedule lists several classes which might be of interest.
Of interest to others is that their A&S will have a virtual component.
Zoom links to be published on Feb 9 on their schedule page:
The schedule lists several classes which might be of interest.