#viking

Perseverance Rover Witnesses One Martian Dust Devil Eating Another https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-2020-perseverance/perseverance-rover/perseverance-rover-witnesses-one-martian-dust-devil-eating-another/ #NASA #PerseveranceRover #CuriosityRover #JetPropulsionLaboratory #Mars #Mars2020 #MarsExplorationRoversMER #MarsPathfinder #Viking

The Viking spear gets a wrought iron core; requiring lots of forge welding!
Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgNMg8cvogs
#blacksmithing, #viking, #spear

Pattern-welded swords are a challenge to make. Let's try it anyway!
Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43MqWRj7KEE
#bladesmithing, #patternwelding, #viking

The hull of the ship Orkan has been put together.
It's so satisfying to finally see her shape. There is still a lot of work to do to complete the longship but we are getting there :)
#viking #sailingship #sailing #boat #ship #woodworking #toulouse #france

Going to #Ireland in 12 days and I’m looking for some good historical fiction to set the mood! Any #Viking scholars and #histodons know if there are any good novels about Turgesius, for instance?

The Viking Broad Seax was making good progress but the welds failed. Let's do the forge welding all over again.
Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2QGTrzgYNE
#bladesmithing, #viking, #swordmaking

...their wings are to make a flying device for Wayland to escape his imprisonment, here viewed from above on another #Viking Age carving from #Yorkshire, a hogback grave marker. #FolkloreThursday #Folklore #AncientBluesky
3/8

Myth Busters: Viking Edition https://medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/viking-myths #Viking

Skip #AgentOrange and listen to this instead...

#Music #Eihwar #Viking #Baltic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX3IZU-9JtM

Do you remember that #medieval / #viking hood I wanted to sew a few weeks ago? Not only did I actually finish it just on time for the first medieval market 2 weeks ago (well in the train on the way there) I also managed to finally take some pictures. The sewing as well as the embroidery could be neater, but I like it #handsewing

28 Feb: feast #otd of St Oswald of #Worcester, Archbishop of #York, grandson of a #Viking, he died while washing the feet of the poor on 29 Feb 992 (BM)

Pattern-welded swords are a challenge to make. Let's try it anyway!
Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43MqWRj7KEE
#bladesmithing, #patternwelding, #viking

@buffyleigh Heilung is a #European experimental #folk music band with members from Denmark, Norway and Germany. Their music is based on materials from the Germanic people of the Iron Age and #Viking Age.

https://youtu.be/QRg_8NNPTD8?si=TrcG-AZnINopzHyc

Viking Skulls Display Evidence of Widespread Disease

https://archaeology.org/news/2025/02/24/viking-skulls-display-evidence-of-widespread-disease/

#archaeology #history #viking #sweden

Norse Past, Victorian Present

“Orkneyinga Saga… is at once a historical chronicle and a literary fantasy. It is a Christian book of bloodshed that celebrates saints alongside murderers. Rich in paradox, invention and embellishment Rich in paradox, invention and embellishment”

—Simon Hall addresses Orcadian readings of the 12th/13th-century Orkneyinga Saga

4/8

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/norse-past-victorian-present-orcadian-readings-of-orkneyinga-saga/

#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Shetland #Orcadian #Shetlandic #saga #OrkneyingaSaga #medieval #Viking

#forj #steel #celtic #viking

I just finished this #spear tip. It's forged, of course. In 3 parts, the socket, the #blade body, and the cutting edge which is fire welded. The whole thing is #forged. This is my 2nd #Damas, 33 layers thick, I used a power hammer.
video:
https://youtube.com/shorts/0h3Viboa5uY?si=dnV8pCTRV8dnx5m7

#forj #acier #celte #viking #gaulois

Je viens de finir cette #pointe de #lance. Elle est bien-sur forgée. En 3 pièces, la douille, le corps de #lame, et le tranchant qui est rapporté. Le tout est soudé à la #forge. C'est mon 2ème #Damas, il y a 33 couches, je me suis aidé d'un martinet.
la video :
https://youtube.com/shorts/0h3Viboa5uY?si=dnV8pCTRV8dnx5m7