Woodcut of the 9th century Swedish king Erik Väderhatt, who was said to be able to control the wind’s direction by pointing with his hat. From the 16th century book History of the Nordic Peoples by Olaus Magnus. Many more fascinating woodcuts at the source link.
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He’s not trying to poison you, by Tanja Härkōnen
Ulfric trying sujamma for the first time
Roger Colby synthesizes J. R. R. Tolkien’s 5 tips for creating complex heroes, based on the writer’s letters.
Pair with Tolkien’s little-known original drawings for the first edition of The Hobbit.
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between the Loire and the Seine. This they did, but the Frankish nobility had them killed, considering independent peasant actions a challenge to royal authority. The Annales Bertiniani said that they had acted “incautiously.”
- from Chris Wickham, Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean 400-800, Oxford University Press, p. 580-1
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playing on pc?Yep, always.
I’ll have the gazelle shank. Hold the mushrooms.
Thank you once again, Arkane, for letting us climb high just because.
The Berlin Gold Hat or Berlin Golden Hat (German: Berliner Goldhut) is a Late Bronze Age artefact made of thin gold leaf. It served as the external covering on a long conical brimmed headdress, probably of an organic material.
The Berlin Gold Hat is the best preserved specimen among the four known conical Golden hats known from Bronze Age Central Europe so far. Of the three others, two were found in southern Germany, and one in the west of France. All were found in the 19th and 20th centuries.
It is generally assumed that the hats served as the insignia of deities or priests in the context of a sun cult that appears to have been widespread in Central Europe at the time. [1].
The hats are also suggested to have served astronomical/calendrical functions (see below).
The Berlin Gold Hat was acquired in 1996 by the Berlin Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte as a single find without provenance. A comparative study of the ornaments and techniques in conjunction with dateable finds suggests that it was made in the Late Bronze Age, circa 1,000 to 800 BC.
Henry VIII.’s Hawking Glove, Ashmolean Museum
Grey, by depingo
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Floki teaching Norse mythology is the best thing ever
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