I’m genuinely interested in finding the original source for my avatar pic. I found it years ago and just thought it was cool, so I saved it without much thought at the time. Does anyone know how to do a reverse image search, or some other way to find the artist who created this image?
Norway, Gudvangen last fall in October. The Nærøyfjord is a side arm of the Sognefjord and is approx. 20 km long. Together with the Geirangerfjord, the Nærøyfjord was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List on July 14, 2005. The landscape there is simply breathtaking and highly recommended.
I went to a viking renactment event at the weekend, here are some pics.
The dress I am wearing was made by my mum and is authentic. It was a three day thing and we slept over in the village, it was super cold and horrible to sleep in 😅. It was pretty cool tho.
I mostly spent my time wood carving and making a broom. The cat is a stray and is well loved by the park and has her own house there.
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 (British Museum)
My #DNA results revealed i’m 2/3 Norwegian #Viking, incl. Celt. More recently…
An Icelandic archaeological excavation of a Viking burial from 1000 AD was conducted in Straumur (1952), possibly one of the first settlers in Iceland with Flóki... Following more recent updated scientific results, I was matched to a Viking burial there, which could have been a boat burial, with an 88% accuracy. Grave goods included a horse bone, a small axe, thirty boat rivets, a lead weight, two pebbles and a knife.
A couple of pictures of the runestone Ög 29 in Tåby in Östergötland. It stands right next to the stone Ög 30 in a small forest by a road crossing in Skjorstad. It’s in gray granite and about 177 cm tall. It’s been moved from the original position, which is believed to be by a small stream a few hundred meters north of where it now stands.
Lately the Canadian media has been rehashing the incident last year in Parliament when Zelensky was here, but I see absolutely no mention of this...
Three Conservative MPs who met with far-right German politician will stay in caucus
Anderson , a member of European Parliament ..... which has been under surveillance as a suspected extremist group in Germany and is accused of downplaying Nazi crimes, opposing immigration and pushing anti-Muslim ideology.
They have known for over a century, at least since the 1950's.
The #FirstNations and #NativeAmericans are right: the earth 🌎 doesn't belong to anyone. Therefore, its proceeds belong to all inhabitants.
#Norway is a prosperous, democratic country today, despite its #viking past.
Its #FossilFuel proceeds feed an investment fund for all natives and not some #billionaires whose ancestors got lucky.
In Norse myths, Garm is the watchdog of the Underworld. Garm and Tyr will kill each other at Ragnarok. Since Tyr had previously lost his hand to the similar Fenris Wolf, some scholars theorize that Garm and Fenris were the same beast in an earlier version.
🎨 Johannes Gehrts #FairyTaleTuesday
This is the runestone Sö 92 which stands in the graveyard of Husby-Rekarne church, next to the church wall by the southern gate. The runestone mentions viking travels to the east. It is signed by the carver Balli and made out of sandstone. It's not known where it originally stood, as it was found in a grave in the 17th century. It was then inserted into the church wall, and 200 years later it was removed and and placed where it now stands.
"Even heavily encrusted and blackened by years spent at the bottom of a silty river, the three lobes of the pommel are clearly discernible, categorizing it as a Petersen Type S sword which typically date to the 10th century."
Though Freyja is often thought of as the Norse Aphrodite, she is more than just a love goddess. She is also a goddess of war, the valkyrie queen who shares the souls of dead warriors with Odin. And the goddess of witches, who taught Odin much of his magic.
🎨 Johannes Gehrts #FolkloreSunday
In Norse myths, the goddess Sága is often visited by Odin in her home of Sökkvabekkr ("Sunken Bank"), where they merrily share mead in golden cups. There's scholarly debate on whether Sága is another name for Frigg, Odin's wife, or whether she is a separate deity.
🎨 Lorenz Frølich #FolkloreSunday
The #Viking 1 & 2 surface sampler boom was furlable, like a flexible measuring tape, and was rolled inside its case, only to take its tubular form when unfurled during a sampling operation.
Tom Dahl's fantastic work in creating the lander's 3D model, and explaining the details, shows how the whole assembly worked. The model's detail is such that one may actually be able to reconstruct a replica of the mechanism from that model.