#historiska

[grizouille]

Day 2 in Stockholm

Music, scooter discovery and history.

After breakfast I took an electrical scooter to ride to the ABBA museum. It was very interesting and funny. I even sang in a karaoke box and danced with headphones.

Then I went to the Historiska museet. Very interesting too, very complete. Sweden has a real long history, pretty much like the French one. I loved the viking era with the explanation of the Valhalla and all. But it's very long to visit every room. Gladly, it ends by the craftsmanship outside, where I made my own runic necklace.

I had a quick lunch at the restaurant of the museum. I had to try the chocolate ball for dessert, it's really good. After lunch, I walked to a small island where I saw Gröna Lund from afar too, and a lighthouse. I didn't go to the amusement park because the attractions are way too violent for me, I'll faint 😂😂😂.

I stayed a while along the harbor, and went back to the hotel. Finally I ate at a viking bar, just for the fun of it. And I took the chance to eat meatballs.

Gröna Lund

[demonindistress]

Going to reblog this version as well. I pretty much only own iron age replica/interpretations jewellery now, it's expensive af, and with good reason, because the batches aren't big, there's a lot of crafting involved, and the materials are good. For an era less popular, I'd never afford it. The coolest brooches I've seen people in (which I don't own) are over 1000$ because there's just that much labour. That's quite a financial commitment.

The museum i personally work in only has about fifty thousand visitors a year. 5% of them buy something more expensive than candy, a magnet or a postcard in the shop. A large selection of replicas would NEVER break even.

[thefeatheredsnake]

Gülperi - en melodisk "ros-älva"

En övning i bläckteckning med koppling till mina berättelser och…Melodifestivalen? Gülperi är en person från Yakanes, en av mina berättelsekaraktärers, bakgrund – hans första kärlek. Liksom han tillhörde hon den härskande klassen av slavursprung i Kiralatet, en stat inspirerad av vår verklighets Mamlucksultanat som härskade över stora delar av nuvarande Mellanöstern mellan 1250-1517. Gülperi var…

[forislynx]

[Antifon var] en autentisk pionjär som skulle kunna betraktas som en föregångare inom psykoanalys och samtalsterapi. Genom sitt yrke insåg han att effektiva tal kunde påverka folks sinnesstämning: de berörde, gladde, väckte passion och ingav lugn. Han fick en idé: han hittade på en metod för att dämpa smärta och sorg, på samma sätt som medicinsk behandling hjälpte sjuka. Han öppnade en mottagning i staden Korinth och satte upp en skylt som upplyste om att han kunde 'trösta sorgmodiga med passande tal'. När han tog emot en klient lyssnade han på denne med djup uppmärksamhet tills han förstod vilken olycka som tyngde. Sedan 'suddade han ut den från hans ande' med ett tröstande anförande. Han använde ordets övertygande kraft som läkemedel för att dämpa ångest. Enligt antikens författare kom han att bli känd för sitt lugnande resonerande ... Han förstod också att behandlingen krävde en utforskande dialog. Han märkte att det var lämpligt att få den som plågades att tala om vad som låg bakom dennes sorg, eftersom man genom att sätta ord på det kunde hitta en utväg. Många århundraden senare skulle Viktor Frankl, som var lärjunge till Freud och överlevare från koncentrationslägren i Auschwitz och Dachau, utveckla en liknande metod för att hantera trauman från sin tids europeiska barbari.

Irene Vallejo, Papyrus : om bokens födelse i den antika världen

[memories-of-ancients]

Round buckle with silver filigree, Sweden, 800-1100 AD

from The Historiska Museen, Stockholm

[snailspng]

Where I find images to make into PNGs

Museum / collection websites

Rijksmuseum • Metropolitan Museum of Art • National Gallery of Art • Europeana • Public Domain Review  • The British Library • Victoria & Albert Museum • Wellcome Collection • Risd Museum • Phoenix Ancient Art • Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden • Georgian National Museum • Internet Archive • Getty Images • Louvre • Statens Historiska Muséer • Museum of Applied Arts • Royal Collection Trust • The Walters Art Museum • Science Museum Group • Kunst Historiches Museum Wien • The David Collection • MAK collection

+ pretty much any museum site with a virtual collection

Auction websites

1stDibs • Sothebys • Ruby Lane • Live Auctioneers • Christie’s • Timeline Auctions • Heritage Auctions • Auctionet • Hindman Auctions

Various

My pinterest • Worthpoint • Etsy • Shoplook • Wikimedia Commons • Replacements

Google reverse image search > “find image source” > “visually similar images”

Other PNG blogs

goobersplat • gooberscollage • vile-things • encyclopaedia-ornithonesiae • oceantoyz • transparensies • png-magician • whizpurr • adjpngs • transpareats • transparentstickers • transparenzz • pngtrash • fruit-prince • honeyrolls • bleedingthroughteeth • png-heaven • 5tocka

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[merovingian-marvels]

The Uppåkra bird brooch (U263)

This type of brooch is sometimes called “Uppåkra style bird brooch”, referencing the place they were most commonly found.

Germanic animal brooches (birds/horses) are usually in profile, while the Uppåkra birds are made as if we watch from above.

Although it’s not uncommon to include human (male) faces on animal shaped brooches, the Uppåkra ones are the only ones in which the face is placed between the wings of the bird, rather than the Merovingian/Vendel placement on the hip.

Although some researchers believe these brooches reference falconry, it was predominantly a Swedish practice, not correlating with predecessors from the Merovingian dynasty.

On continental Europe, researchers are more tempted to think that these brooches represent fallen men whose souls are brought to Odin, not specifying between corvids and birds of prey. It might even be so that women wore these kinds of brooches/decorations in honor of a fallen family member.

IMAGE CREDIT: B. Almgren for Lund University, via Kristina Jembert, “The Mania of the time. Falconry and Bird Brooches at Uppåkra and Beyond.” 2007.

Historiska Museet - Lund University, Sweden

Museum nr./ID nr. U263

Found in Uppåkra, Skåne - Sweden

[aestheticjunkyard]

Historiska hem

[woedans]

The helmet of Vendel 1. Photographed at @historiska Stockholm a while back. This is by far my favorite helmet and also the grave I am reconstructing in my living-history project. More on that very soon.

This helmet, much like many other helmets from Vendel and Valsgärde, is covered in so called pressblech images. These gilded foils show different designs of what is believed to be (part of) an initiation ritual. Some of the elements show likeness to continental European designs and designs found in England. Objects like this belonged to the absolute elite of Early Medieval martial society and were among the most valuable items in material culture.

The gold adorned helmet is dated to around 625AD and was excavated in the 1910’s by Hjalmar Stolpe, who would later also write the excavation reports of the famed Viking burial site at Birka.

The grave, a boat burial, also contained two elaborate swords (more on that soon), a shield, smithing material, a horse, horse equipment, a spearhead, skeletons of dogs, beakers, food preparation material and grooming accessories. Needless to say it was a very elaborate grave.

At the burial site ar Vendel now stands an old church with a churchyard.

I like to think the spirits of these long gone elite warriors now reside in the great halls of the Historiska museum in the afterlife. The helmet is on display in what they call the Gold Room.

More coming soon.

Photos of the drawings are from the original report. Last photo courtesy of the Historiska museet.

[anmehe]

Historiska Hem

[andiatas]

17 Jan. 1251 - This is the last time Katarina Sunesdotter is mentioned in any source material by name, but it is believed that she died in the following year, 1252. Katarina was the eldest of Helena Sverkersdotter and Sune Folkesson’s two daughters and, therefore, granddaughter of Sverker the Younger and Benedikta.

Around 1243-1244, Katarina married Erik XI (Erik Eriksson den läspe och halte) to strengthen his claim to the throne, as she was of royal blood on her mother's side. Katarina had received an immense dowery upon the marriage - some legends speak about “half the kingdom”.

After Erik died in 1250, she became an abbess at Gudhem’s Abbey, where she was buried. The original sculptured tombstone is now at Historiska museet, but a copy was made and placed at the original site in 1964.

Photo 1: The tombstone of Katarina Sunesdotter in an exhibition at Historiska museet in 2015 (photograph taken from Wikimedia Commons). Photo 2: The tombstone of Katarina Sunesdotter at the ruins of Gudhem's Abbey in 2009 (photograph taken from Wikimedia Commons).

[ithinkwehitametaphor]

.Viking Age Glass Beads.

Glass beads from Hälsingland. Historiska Museet, Stockholm, 2014.

[caedharlowe]

Anyway there are so many museums these days that have entire collections posted online. Currently I am nutting over Historiska, the Swedish History Museum, and their Viking+ collection. There’s so many artefacts from all over the world found in that location and time range, and the detail on the metalwork just blows me away. The tiniest wires and beads of filigree, and delicate as anything metal thread embroidery, the fabric rotted away so you can see everything in detail. Even a few fabric artefacts! There’s basically zero surviving textiles from that period and area but what is there is just. So so detailed. And all way before Industrialisation was even a possibility.

In particular this post was meant to be about hacksilver, which is exactly what it sounds like. People from later times chopping up jewellery or other precious metal finds and using them as money-by-weight, because there was so goddamn much buried in giant piles.

Makes me want to take up metalworking just to appreciate how much effort really went into everything.

[thefeatheredsnake]

Med Kärlek i Hjärtat

En bild på temat kärlek som drivande kraft, som länge låg och väntades på att födas och tack vare vänners hjälp nu kunde få en mer färdig form. En scen som jag länge önskat avbilda äger rum inför ett stort och ödesdigert slag, en avgörande punkt i Alla Drabbningars Moder, en av mina berättelser i fantasyvärlen Aratauma, närmare bestämt i Kiralatet, ett rike baserat på det historiska…

[mybeingthere]

Intarsia textile from the Historiska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.

[memories-of-ancients]

The Bragby sword, a bronze sword uncovered near Bragby, Sweden, dated 1700-1500 BC

from The Historiska Museum, Stockholm