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Prehistoric gold lozenge to go on display
4,000 year-old gold lozenge from Bush Barrow, Wiltshire England
This is Wiltshire reports on the 21 October that –
A priceless prehistoric gold lozenge excavated in the 19th century will be put on public display for the first time when the new Neolithic gallery at Wiltshire Heritage Museum in Devizes opens next year. The museum was awarded a £370,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund earlier this year to finance the new gallery, which will be built at the rear of the museum and is due to open in May. Secure display units will enable the museum to show items that were thought too valuable for public display.
Foremost of these is the large gold lozenge that was found in the Bush Barrow grave near Stonehenge, dating from around 1900BC, which was excavated by William Cunnington in 1808. David Dawson, director of the museum, said: “A replica of the lozenge…
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Thors Day!
By Odin’s Beard! ‘Twas truly a day among the vikings today:Tattooed Thor’s Hammer …
…upon Volstagg the Valiant!!…
…a truly blessed day full of smiles and fun, thanks to the Sheree, Gary & Family Show, thank you all!!
Mediaeval manuscripts used as dust jackets
We have found a really interesting story about how mediaeval 
manuscripts were used in the 17th and 18th centuries as “stuffing” in the binding of books or as dust jackets. And it comes from Edmonton, not the one near us, but Edmonton, Alberta, in Canada.
The story starts like this:- “The book before me is huge and heavy, bound, not in paper or cardboard, but with planks of solid oak, held together by thick cords. It looks like a prop from a fantasy film. It’s actually a Latin dictionary, published in the early 1700s.” But here’s the secret:- “But as old as the dictionary appears, it hides a secret far older. Inside the heavy oak cover is a parchment liner. Other pieces of the same parchment are stuffed into the spine, to bind the book block together. The parchment wrapper is far older than the dictionary: a medieval manuscript, hand-written on calfskin…
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SH1024 Wood Grip Rapier by CAS Hanwei
Mad tattoo-idea!
Lunatics…
Thankfully the Blue Moon has now passed so hopefully things will swing back towards “normal”…whatever that is!!
…Once in a blue rune, ahahahahaha!!…
…Ran out of Time!! Tom brought some much need sanity to the shop!
Tattoos of 2,500 year old Siberian Princess
“The ancient mummy of a mysterious young woman, known as the Ukok Princess, is finally returning home to the Altai Republic this month. The Siberian Times has obtained intricate drawings of her remarkable tattoos, and those of two men, possibly warriors, buried near her on the remote Ukok Plateau, now a UNESCO world cultural and natural heritage site, some 2,500 metres up in the Altai Mountains in a border region close to frontiers of Russia with Mongolia, China and Kazakhstan.”
Reconstruction of a warrior’s tattoos, who was discovered on the same plateau as the ‘Princess’. All drawings of tattoos, here and below, were made by Elena Shumakova, Institute of Archeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science
“They are all believed to be Pazyryk people – a nomadic people described in the 5th century BC by the Greek historian Herodotus – and the colourful body artwork is seen…
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Metagenomics, Lyme Disease, and the Tyrolean Iceman’s Tattoos
Amazing Tattoos Cover Ancient Siberian Princess | News.com.au
Annelie 2009
The Valknut
The Valknut is an ancient Viking design (although the word itself is new). A Valknut consists of three interlinking triangles. Classic Viking valknuts as seen in ancient stone carvings are one of two topological forms: the unicursal form or “triquetra” and the tricursal form, which consists of three linked triangles (also known as Borromean rings). The triquetra valknut has been found, for example, on the 7th century Tängelgårda stone (which stands on the island of Gotland, Sweden). The tricursal valknut is found on a different ancient Gottland monument–the Lärbro stones.
Above is one of the carvings from the Lärbro stones (also known as the Stora Hammar rune stones). The violent relief carving is filled with symbols of Odin: a warrior holds a captive facedown and flays open his back with a spear as two ravens (or eagles) fly overhead. To the right a troop of armored warriors look…
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Hel
Hela and Nidhogg and the Tree of Life.
Hela is the daughter of Loki and Angrboda and she takes care of the dead in her Queendom.
Asatru / Heathen South Africa 