#ancient Norway

[ancientstuff]

This is absolutely nuts. Who in the world would okay this?

[atrumvox]

The Son of Thor Who Saved His Father at Just Three Days Old!

Did you know that Thor has three legendary children? Discover who they are and what makes them extraordinary!

Did you know that Thor, the god of thunder, has three unique children? Magni, with his superhuman strength, saved his father as a newborn. Móði, the embodiment of courage, is destined to lead the new world after Ragnarök. Þrúðr, his valkyrie daughter, is a warrior as powerful as she is captivating. Each of them represents a divine quality that makes them essential to Asgard's fate. Get ready to uncover their deeds and their roles in the most epic Norse legends!

[blueiscoool]

Viking Silver Bracelet Hoard Found in Norway

Archaeologists have unearthed a set of uniquely decorated bracelets on the site of a "large and powerful" Viking Age farm.

Archaeologists in Norway have discovered a Viking Age treasure that had remained "untouched" for more than 1,000 years.

The four silver bracelets had been buried nearly 8 inches (20 centimeters) in the ground on a mountainside in Årdal, a village in southwestern Norway, according to a translated statement from the University of Stavanger.

"This is definitely the biggest thing I have experienced in my career," Volker Demuth, an archaeologist and project manager at the Archaeological Museum at the University of Stavanger, said in the statement.

Archaeologists found the bracelets ahead of construction of a new tractor road.

Further exploration revealed that the location once housed a "large and powerful" Viking Age (A.D. 793 to 1066) farm comprising multiple houses for people and animals, according to the statement. The researchers found the buried bracelets within one of the smaller structures, which likely housed enslaved individuals.

In addition to the jewelry, researchers discovered an array of artifacts, including soapstone pots, rivets, knife blades and whetstones for sharpening tools. There's also evidence that the farm had been burned down, which "coincides with a period of great unrest in the Viking Age," according to the statement.

"If people who lived on this farm had to flee from an attack, it would be natural to hide away the valuables you had before escaping to the mountains," Demuth said. "And perhaps in a place where you would not have thought that a treasure was hidden."

By Jennifer Nalewicki.

[vyoru]

Mochis x the Olympics !

Some card art I did for the mochidex ! So glad Im finally able to post these. You should totally get the bot in your server if you haven’t, lots of amazing artists that put their hard work into this event !! super fun

[ltwilliammowett]

An important find

[paperafterdark]

Choose who you think is the most dominant in bed not who your favourite of the four is.

Masterpost

[scandinavianheritage]

The Oseberg ship

[chuwa-chan]

Doing this trend! Ik I'm late :p (I couldn't find the original one :c)

I also wanted to try this one

I'm unfortunately single :/ so just pretend that Belgium is me online ^^ OK~~~^›^

[hwsevents]

Mythtalia March

Decided to make another list for inspiration!

Mythological Ships:

-Odysseus & Penelope

-Apollo & Hyacinthus

-Apollo & Daphne

-Pygmalion & Galatea

-Helen & Paris

-Hades & Persephone 

-Achilles & Patroclus

-Aphrodite & Ares

-Aphrodite & Hephaestus

-Dionysus & Ariadne 

-Heracles & Megara

-Odin & Frigg

-Loki & Angrboda

-Frey & Gerd

-Thor & Sif

-Svarog & Lada

Again, none of these are obligations, this is just for the sake of possibly giving people ideas!

@hetaliahappenings @heta-on-the-books @nsfhetalia @hetaliacalendar

[ancientstuff]

Honestly, 'pagan' shouldn't be used, I think. It has pejorative associations, BUT this votive hoard find is great!

[historyfiles]

Komsa Culture: known in Norway as the Komsakulturen, this gained its name from Mount Komsa in the Alta region of Finnmark, close to which the remnants of this culture were first discovered.

[blueiscoool]

A Very Rare 1,000-Year-Old Byzantine Gold Coin Found in Norway

Approximately 1,000 years ago in Constantinople — the bustling capital of the Byzantine Empire — a small gold coin was minted.

Now, about a millennia later, the tiny treasure has been unearthed more than 1,600 miles away from its origin, according to a Nov. 30 news release from the Inlandet County Municipality.

Officials said a metal detectorist stumbled upon the artifact among the mountains in Vestre Slidre, Norway. It’s a rare discovery for Norway, and the seemingly out-of-place artifact appears to be in great condition, especially given its age.

Photos of the coin show each side’s intricate carvings. One side depicts Jesus Christ holding a Bible, while the other shows Byzantine emperors Basil II and Constantine VII, brothers who ruled together, officials said.

Each side also has an inscription. The side showing Jesus has a Latin inscription, which translates to “Jesus Christ, King of those who reign,” according to experts. The side depicting the emperors has a Greek inscription, which translates to “Basil and Constantine, emperors of the Romans.”

Experts said the coin was minted during Basil and Constantine’s reign, likely sometime between 977 and 1025. The dotted circles bordering the coin indicate its age.

HOW DID THE COIN MAKE IT FROM CONSTANTINOPLE TO NORWAY?

Experts have tried to determine how the coin ended up in Norway.

One hypothesis is that the artifact belonged to Harald the Ruthless — the king of Norway from 1045 until 1066, according to Britannica.

Before he was king, Harald the Ruthless, also known as Harald Hardråde, served as part of the Byzantine emperor’s guard, experts said. It was customary for guards to loot the palace after an emperor’s death, and three emperors died during Hardråde’s time as a guard.

Once the coin made it back to Norway, it could have been lost along a trade or transportation route, according to experts.

Archaeologists have not had a chance to fully examine the site where the coin was found, but they are planning a broader excavation in 2024, officials said.

By Moira Ritter.

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

𝔈𝔪𝔭𝔢𝔯𝔬𝔯 - 𝔄𝔫𝔠𝔦𝔢𝔫𝔱 𝔔𝔲𝔢𝔢𝔫

[cure-whimsy]

who do you think told snotlout he was bi, or did he figure it out on his own

[lowstakesvampires]

[lavrenik]

Tistel – mistel – kistel thing: a runic spell or something else?

Tistel – mistel – kistel is an expression that can be found on several rune stones and churches in Scandinavia. Interestingly, according to the "rule" of writing runes, they should not repeat one after another, whereas in the original this inscription looks like this:

ᚦᛘᚴ : ᛁᛁᛁ : ᛋᛋᛋᛋ : ᛏᛏᛏ : ᛁᛁᛁ : ᛚᛚᛚ

If you transliterate it into Latin letters, you get

thmk : iii : sss : ttt : iii : lll

In Old Norse

þistill : mistill : kistill

Thistle – mistletoe – casket.

The expression is considered to be a spell, and any spell has both positive and negative magical effects (as, incidentally, and runes alone, if they are attributed magical properties, are not purely positive or negative, but always both). The Celts also collected mistletoe for medicinal purposes, and singing spells over the herbs increased their power, which may have given rise to tistel – mistel – kistel.

The inscription is found, for example, on the Ledberg runestone (1) in the Swedish province of Östergötland and on the Danish runestone Gørlev (2-3), both dating from the 11th century.

According to one of the versions the text on the Ledberg stone depicts Odin being devoured by Fenrir during Ragnarök. Another interesting thing is that on the stone from Denmark, after the repeated sequence of runes, the author left the inscription "I have placed the runes correctly/in the correct order". I have read that the same inscription is in the Borgund Stave Church (4) in Norway, which is also one of the oldest surviving frame churches, which began to build with the penetration of Christianity in Scandinavia. Although the Borgund church is dedicated to St Andrew (the interior features his X crosses (5)), it is very much full of pagan symbols, such as the dragons on the roof (6), which refer to Viking ships, and runic inscriptions. I am waiting for candidates to come with me to Norway to check the presence of tistel – mistel – kistel there, because sadly there are no photos on the internet.

Also tistel – mistel – kistel is found in the Saga of the Bos, there is a huge article about it and about this phrase in general in Norwegian, I translated only the summary, but someday I hopefully will translate the whole thing :(

The article argues that the thistle formula is a prototypical fertility formula with a positive and/or negative sign during the Viking Age and the Middle Ages. The cultural and historical background of thistle and mistletoe and their medicinal use support this interpretation. The conclusion is that this formula had a complex symbolic meaning with life-threatening and life-preserving functions. In other words, it fulfilled a number of different tasks: from curse incantation to protection and blessing magic.

That is basically what I wrote above: any spell gives a response and can be used in both directions.