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Torching tradition as first woman raises the axe for Shetland's Vikings.

The people of Shetland, a group of islands north of Scotland, are welcoming the arrival of spring in dramatic style – by burning viking longships.

Up Helly Aa was first celebrated in 1881 and is unique to these islands. But it's a tradition that is evolving, with a woman at the heart of it for the first time.

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Torching tradition as first woman raises the axe for Shetland's Vikings.

The people of Shetland, a group of islands north of…

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George Ellenburg (he/him/his)

The #Danes are literally fucking #Vikings. You don't want to mess with Vikings. They invaded England and kicked some serious ass while they were there. #USpol #Trump #Vance #Greenland #Denmark

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/28/vance-visit-denmark-tells-us-stop-treating-us-like-dirt-00259248

Aethelflaed

#History #vikings #archaeology

A Swedish man spotted a circular object lying near an area under construction. At first he assumed it was a tool, but then on closer inspection realised that it was much more important. He contacted a local archaeologist who ascertained that the artefact was actually over 1000 years old and had been an arm bracelet. Arm bracelets were worn by Vikings in order to denote wealth and status.
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Martin Rundkvist

R.L. Stevenson writing in 1883 doesn't know that Viking ships were fast rowing vessels. A ship comes within sight of the shore of Iceland when the wind dies down, and all the crew can do is wait, becalmed, for it to pick up again.

#sailing #vikings

Martin Rundkvist

Take, for example, the rich Viking Period graves of Birka. They are absolutely essential for research into that period. But Stolpe excavated and documented them in the 1870s and 1880s. Then the finds and bones and paper archive were not very well curated in a museum until the 1930s, when Arbman collated the information, and published it in the 1940s. Finally both versions of what these graves were like was put online ten years ago.

#bigdata #datascience #archaeology #vikings

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A colleague brought me this <3

Rough (like, very rough!) translation of the text - which is from Håvamål, a collection of old Norse poems: "Better burden you will not carry uphill than wisdom aplenty."

#Tandem #Beer #Norse #Vikings
Bevan Thomas

After Loki murdered the Norse god Baldur, the other gods imprisoned Loki. In order to create restraints to hold the shapeshifter, Odin turned Loki's son Narfi into a huge wolf, who tore apart Nari (one of Loki's other sons). Then Odin bound Loki with Nari's entrails.
🎨 Louis Huard

#MythologyMonday #31DaysofHaunting #Mythology #NorseMythology #VikingMythology #ScandinavianMythology #Folklore #NorseFolklore #VikingFolklore #ScandinavianFolklore #Norse #Vikings #Scandinavia #Loki #Odin

Brian M Knoblock🇺🇸/👊🇳🇴🔥

BRAXTON: The only way for me, for us, to recover is to obliterate Voyager from the timeline. That way, none of the events that caused this illness will have occurred.
JANEWAY: What events?
BRAXTON: Thirty years of exile on twentieth century Earth. The temporal inversion in the Takara sector. The #Vikings winning the Super Bowl.

#AllStarTrek #StarTrekVOY #Relativity @allstartrek

Bevan Thomas

Though Thor is the greatest warrior of the Norse gods, he is not a god of war but instead one of agriculture. This is demonstrated when Thor encounters a disguised Odin who denigrates Thor for being lord of farmers and serfs while Odin is lord of kings and warriors.
🎨 W. G. Collingwood

#FolkyFriday #31DaysofHaunting #Mythology #NorseMythology #VikingMythology #ScandinavianMythology #Folklore #NorseFolklore #VikingFolklore #ScandinavianFolklore #Norse #Vikings #Scandinavia #Thor #Odin