#Southern Denmark

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denmark | western australia

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Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (Danish, 1783-1853) Telemachos møder Odysseus forklædt som tigger hos hyrden Eumaios - Odysseus; fragment af hele kompositionen, ca. 1811-12 Statens Museum for Kunst

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Stunning 1,500-Year-Old Gold Ring Unearthed in Denmark

An amateur metal detectorist in Denmark has unearthed a rare gold ring that may have belonged to a previously unknown royal family with ties to the Kingdom of France.

Lars Nielsen discovered the large, ornately decorated gold ring, set with a red semiprecious stone, while exploring Emmerlev, a parish in Southern Jutland, Denmark, according to a translated statement. The ring dates to the fifth or sixth century.

“Such a unique and one-of-a-kind find is completely surreal,” Nielsen said in the statement.

Researchers at the National Museum of Denmark determined that the piece of jewelry has much “historical significance” and may have belonged to local royalty connected to the Merovingians, a dynasty of Frankish kings who ruled over parts of what is now France, Belgium and Germany between the fifth and eighth centuries.

“The gold ring not only reveals a possible new princely family in Emmerlev, but also connects the area with one of Europe’s largest centers of power in the Iron Age,” Kirstine Pommergaard, an archaeologist and curator at the National Museum of Denmark, said in the statement.

“The gold ring is probably a woman’s ring and may have belonged to a prince’s daughter who was married to a prince in Emmerlev. Gold is typically [a] diplomatic gift, and we know that people have married into alliances.”

Exquisite craftsmanship of the gold ring

Researchers based the ring’s royal connection on its exquisite craftsmanship, which includes “well-executed spirals on the underside and trefoil knobs” where the ring and stone setting meet — a characteristic often associated with Frankish craftsmanship, according to the statement.

“It is an impressive level of craftsmanship that is difficult to imitate today,” Pommergaard said.

The ring’s red stone also offers clues to its ownership, since similar stones are well-known symbols of power in the Nordics, “while the elite gold rings of the Merovingians are typically set with a coin or a plaque, like a signet ring,” the researchers said in the statement. “This shows that the ring was to serve as a symbol of power in the Nordics.”

“Perhaps the princely family in Emmerlev had control over an area between Ribe [a town in Southwest Jutland] and Hedeby [a Danish Viking Age trading settlement in what is now Germany] and thus secured trade in the area,” Pommergaard said.

The ring’s location was a few miles away from previously found artifacts — including a collection of gold and silver coins, pottery and first-century golden horns — leading experts to think the item wasn’t lost but rather intentionally placed in the area.

“The person who had the ring probably also knew about the people who had the golden horns,” Anders Hartvig, a medieval archaeologist at Museum Sønderjylland, said in the statement.

“Maybe they were related. Together with other recent finds, it paints a picture that Southern Jutland has had a greater influence than previously thought, and that the Wadden Sea was not closed in on itself, but had an aristocratic presence with important trade links to the south.”

By Tasos Kokkinidis.

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In the Middle Ages, alchemists were notoriously secretive and didn't share their knowledge with others. Danish Tycho Brahe was no exception. Consequently, we don't know precisely what he did in the alchemical laboratory located beneath his combined residence and observatory, Uraniborg, on the now Swedish island of Ven. Only a few of his alchemical recipes have survived, and today, there are very few remnants of his laboratory. Uraniborg was demolished after his death in 1601, and the building materials were scattered for reuse. However, during an excavation in 1988-1990, some pottery and glass shards were found in Uraniborg's old garden. These shards were believed to originate from the basement's alchemical laboratory. Five of these shards -- four glass and one ceramic -- have now undergone chemical analyses to determine which elements the original glass and ceramic containers came into contact with.

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Egeskov castle. Fyn, Denmark.

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Tønder, Region Syddanmark, Denmark and Ellhöft, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany border

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This Drone Seeks Out Powerlines, Docks Itself To It To Recharge

Amazing development 👍👏🏻👏🏻

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Main Gate of Our Lady Maria Cathedral in Ribe, southern Jutland, Denmark

Danish vintage postcard

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Is prince Hans danish?? Scandinavian???

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Where I buy my coffee beans, Denmark Western Australia ~ branchflower 2023

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Ocean Beach at sunset, Denmark, Western Australia (Southern Ocean - nothing between here and Antarctica)

(C) @branchflowerphoto 2023

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Winter Aconite coming up in Bartram's Garden - February 11th 2023

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im reading so much danish stuff for my thesis since two of the bog bodies im writing about are danish and im sad to say. reading danish is getting easier :(

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The Rich, the Poor and Bulgaria! Money Really Can Buy You Happiness

— Published: December 16th, 2010 | Wednesday 16th August, 2023 | Christmas Specials | Comparing Countries

THE notion that money can't buy happiness is popular, especially among Europeans who believe that growth-oriented free-market economies have got it wrong. They drew comfort from the work of Richard Easterlin, Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California, who trawled through the data in the 1970s and observed only a loose correlation between money and happiness. Although income and well-being were closely correlated within countries, there seemed to be little relationship between the two when measured over time or between countries. This became known as the “Easterlin paradox”. Mr Easterlin suggested that well-being depended not on absolute, but on relative, income: people feel miserable not because they are poor, but because they are at the bottom of the particular pile in which they find themselves.

But more recent work—especially by Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers of the University of Pennsylvania—suggests that while the evidence for a correlation between income and happiness over time remains weak, that for a correlation between countries is strong. According to Mr Wolfers, the correlation was unclear in the past because of a paucity of data. There is, he says, “a tendency to confuse absence of evidence for a proposition as evidence of its absence”.

There are now data on the effect of income on well-being almost everywhere in the world. In some countries (South Africa and Russia, for instance) the correlation is closer than in others (like Britain and Japan) but it is visible everywhere.

The variation in life satisfaction between countries is huge (see chart). Countries at the top of the league (all of them developed) score up to eight out of ten; countries at the bottom (mostly African, but with Haiti and Iraq putting in a sad, but not surprising, appearance) score as low as three.

Although richer countries are clearly happier, the correlation is not perfect, which suggests that other, presumably cultural, factors are at work. Western Europeans and North Americans bunch pretty closely together, though there are some anomalies, such as the surprisingly gloomy Portuguese. Asians tend to be somewhat less happy than their income would suggest, and Scandinavians a little more so. Hong Kong and Denmark, for instance, have similar income per person, at purchasing-power parity; but Hong Kong's average life satisfaction is 5.5 on a 10-point scale, and Denmark's is 8. Latin Americans are cheerful, the ex-Soviet Union spectacularly miserable, and the saddest place in the world, relative to its income per person, is Bulgaria.

— This article appeared in the Christmas Specials section of the print edition under the headline "The Rich, the Poor and Bulgaria"

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Raise public awareness of the impact of light pollution by inviting citizen-scientists.

Are you a scout leader, an amateur astronomer, a schoolteacher, a night owl or a camper?

Or are you just interested in taking care of our night sky? University Library of Southern Denmark invites you to support the Citizen Science project Globe at Night. The Globe at Night project is an international citizen-science campaign that seeks to raise public awareness of the night sky and the impact of light pollution by inviting citizens to measure and submit observations of the brightness of the night sky.  Observations of the night sky from all over the world provide the possibility to carry out research about wildlife, health energy consumption and much more.

It is easy to get involved

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Update: December 2022 - slow archaeology

Update: December 2022 – slow archaeology

“Our brains aren’t designed for multitasking”, my dear friend Cliff Nass, mathematician, cognitive scientist and psychologist, warned me a good long while ago. “It will slow you down and cloud your reasoning.” OK — I’m still working on the same big three projects as back then. But I am quite sure that my research and thinking have evolved most significantly and in ways I could not have…