This remarkable gold & silver hoard, found in 1929 in Laksefjord in Finnmark, has now come home to North-Norway. While it may have been buried in the #viking period, some objects are reckoned much older, with the unusual gold pendant being especially difficult to date.
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The Fries Museum in Leeuwarden is about to hold a major exhibition on Redbad (or Radbod!) from 5 September, including this 9/10 century ring found in 1997 in Sumar (Tytsjerksteradiel, Friesland). #medievalsky
For #FindsFriday evidence of #viking brutality - a 35-year-old woman from Zutphen (NL) with sword cuts to her knee and a York copper penny by her side. Written sources report an attack on the town in 882. Neither she nor the child with her was buried. #medievalsky
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Den såkalte Laksefjordskatten, Nord-Norges største arkeologiske skattefunn, er nå tilbakeført til Norges arktiske universitetsmuseum, nesten hundre år etter at den ble funnet i Laksefjorden i Finnmark...
Dokkum museum today, worth a visit for the locally found early medieval objects on display - an incised snake on bone, a mount with devouring beasts, and a ring decorated with a human between birds - maybe Odin? #medievalsky
Simon Coupland
Join us next Wednesday, 10 June, for a lecture in cooperation with the Earlier Middle Ages Seminar (@earliermiddleages.bsky.social), Institute of Historical Research, given by Gerda Heydemann (Freie Universität Berlin ) on 'The Social Life of Carolingian Exegesis'!
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In a new exhibition in the Nationalmuseet in Copenhagen, "Vølvens Varsel", this silver mount is believed to depict Loki wrapped in his son's intestines. Peter Pentz believes it's a rare early depiction of the god. It's c. 2.5cm, and was found near Skanderborg 4 years ago. www.dr.dk/nyheder/sene...
For #medievalsky - I'm preparing a talk for Groningen University on 30 June and have plotted the finds of coins of Lothar I/II & Louis the German to demonstrate how unlikely it is that the latter ruled Frisia in the 840s. For a fuller discussion see my article: works.hcommons.org/records/n3a9...
