Pretty tempting to get #ACValhalla for 37.80 MYR. As far as recent #AssassinsCreed#games go, I didn't finish #ACOrigins which isn't surprising cos I got distracted with many other games I have that I also haven't finished. #ACOdyssey, at first I played the male character and I thought meh I didn't like his accent lol and his character had too much testosterone (or what I describe as he's too ooga booga) so I gave it up - until long later I tried playing the female character instead and I loved her character better and the game itself was actually decent and fun so I almost completed it.
I was interested in the game before bcos a #Vikings setting seems interesting to explore but bcos it's set in the UK, I think, I've to say the world/landscape itself seems pretty dull compared to something like Greece in Odyssey (again, not sure about Egypt in Origins since I've only played it like 10 mins).
Trove of silver coins dating back to the 1100s discovered on Visingsö, Sweden
Archaeologists from the Jönköping County Museum have uncovered a remarkable treasure trove of 170 silver coins in a grave at Brahe Church on Visingsö, a Swedish island steeped in rich historical significance...
Viking Age silver bracelet unearthed by metal detectorist in Norway
Metal detectorist Jørgen Strande uncovered two Viking Age silver artifacts—a bracelet and a coin—within a day of each other in a farmer’s field in Innlandet County, Norway. Strande, who followed proper protocol, took GPS coordinates, pictures, and promptly informed local authorities...
1,100-year-old Viking sword pulled from English river by magnet fisher
Trevor Penny, a magnet fisherman, pulled a corroded Viking sword dating back to as early as CE 850 from the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire.
The sword, authenticated as Viking and estimated to be over 1,200 years old, represents a period of conflict and cultural exchange between the Anglo-Saxons and the invading Danish Vikings...
The Viking Link High Voltage Direct Current Interconnector between the UK and Denmark will have a capacity to transmit 1.4GW of electricity. Luciano Pezzoli has designed decorations in 10th century animal art styles for the facade of the station at the Danish end, at Revsing in central Jutland. This may be the biggest Scandy animal #art object ever made! #vikings
In the Middle Ages, many Christian Scandinavians believed that the Norse gods had actually been humans from Troy who had fled their burning city and immigrated to Scandinavia, where they had used magic to make the locals believe that they were gods.
To drink from the Well of Wisdom, the Norse god Odin had to give one of his eyes to Mimir, the Well's guardian. In some versions, this is simply a general sacrifice, but in others it's a trade - the eye gives Mimir Odin's knowledge just as the drink gives Odin Mimir's.
🎨 Emil Doepler
The huldufólk (hidden folk) of Iceland are human-sized fairies whose communities are hidden in the hills. Sometimes they are depicted with cow tails. It is said that if the huldufólk marry a human, their cow tails fall off, and they become human themselves.
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In the Christian #Medieval heroic literature of the Insular #Celtic area, ancient head hunting and trophy taking figures large. You know, the Mabinogion etc. But there is very little evidence that it was still practiced. Until the #Vikings showed up and started doing really weird shit with severed heads in e.g. #Dublin, probably horrifying the people who wrote that heroic literature.
@radhakrishnan@nfl I never cared much for Cousins and his team hobbling contract. I'm just not clear what the field of available mediocre QB's looks like right now.