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A Viking Age cruciform mount with an inlaid niello knotwork design. This design was later called Solomon’s Knot, widely used as an apotropaic symbol across Europe; its later association with Solomon attests to these properties. Found in Braintree, Essex, 10-11th Century. 𐘾
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The Irish poem The Cauldron of Poesy describes three metaphysical cauldrons that exist within people, which when balanced, unlock poetic inspiration; the cauldrons of warming, motion and wisdom. Perhaps these are the three elements of awen that the Book of Taliesin speaks of. “Ban pan doeth peir ogyrwen awen teir.” “The three elements of inspiration that came, splendid, out of the cauldron.” ~Book of Taliesin…
“The Hildr of battle stands every morning under a red shield; now the victory-maidens have established hard sword-play for the Danes. You have to fight with a sword, like everyone; Óðinn, the hard father of Baldr, wishes to choose the wretched, dark slain.” ~Styrbjarnar þáttr Svíakappa Painting: Walkürenritt by Adolf Münzer, 1897. 𐘾 “Hildr stendr hverjan myrgin hjaldrs und rauðum skildi; nú hafa sigrmeyjar settan…
A rare early Anglo Saxon ansate or equal-armed brooch, found in Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, 5-6th Century. Similar brooches appeared in continental Europe from the 7th Century onwards; this was a uniquely English pattern, also one of the few found in male Anglo Saxon burials. 𐘾
“Halfs eyris metk hverjan hrísrunn fyr ǫ́ sunnan; vel hafa víðir skógar vargi opt of borgit.” “I value each bush south of the river at half an ounce; extensive woods have often protected a wolf well.” ~Lausavísa by Víga-Glúm 𐘾
An Anglo Saxon bronze lyre bow and tuning peg from Oakley, Suffolk, 6-7th Century. Imagine the songs and epic poetry that it would have overseen. 𐘾
A Viking Age silver Gungnir pendant from the National Museum of Denmark. Heill þér Óðinn! ᚸ
Arminius’s uncle was called Inguiomerus by Tacitus. If we are to believe -merus was a Latinization of Proto-Germanic mērijaz, renowned, his name would’ve been Ingvi’s renowned. Quite the title. Painting by Alexander Zick, 1901. ᛝ
People talk a lot about “unity” these days. A major factor in the Romans abandoning their conquest of Germania was there was no one unified political centre to subdue, no one king to parade through Rome in golden chains. Take out one chieftain, a dozen more will fight on in his place. Wars of unification were ultimately what ended the period of exploration and innovation that was the Viking Age. Scandinavia never…