Sam Ottewill-Soulsby

A find photograph of a small, rectangular lead plaque, Torksey find DB 1620, from the Great Army camp at Torksey, Lincolnshire.

It's Viking Camps #FindsFriday! I've had a few weeks away, with both the Jorvik Festival and half term, so we'll get back to it today... and in honour of yesterday's World Book Day (heavily norse-themed in this household) I thought we'd look at a find with some writing.

This is Torksey DB 1620. /1

inscribed slate

The slate of Carrio (Asturias), c. 900, which contained a charm against storms: discussed in a just-published article on early medieval storm makers, by Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez.
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Further, what constitutes international law can be disputed but it’s much less ambiguous than what constitutes moral behaviour. I don’t want whatever’s left of the Iranian government to be free to act according to its own morality because I find what it considers moral horrifying.

I’m not sure about this. A regime that follows international law is a predictable one that can be trusted to stand by its commitments, even if it acts less morally than we’d like. By all means condemn the morality of the war, but the legal bit also matters.

*Flees the oncoming angry but incredibly harmonious sounds of wrath.*

Just three months after the ex-Reform leader for Wales was convicted of taking Russian money, the former advisor to the Labour Secretary of State for Wales has been arrested on suspicion of spying for China. This is shocking! How long has Wales been known for leeks?

JFC...We have absolutely no shame whatsoever.

National Strategic Reserve of Shame...empty. Can't even borrow any shame from someone, apparently.

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A man working a plow in a field - carried by a small elephant. This detail is from Sebastian Münster's Cosmographiae uniuersalis, vol. 6, 1550.

In 1550, one Elephant Power (EP) was the equivalent of 10 Horse Power (HP).

I think this summarises Arcane as a tv show. Everything about it, including the music, but also the visuals, was several notches better than it had to be. Watching it was an experience of delighted bafflement for me.

Dr. Jeremy Swist @MetalClassicist I still think they should have called themselves De Grill. Traduci post ALT De Gruyter Brill @degruyter_brill • 8h De Gruyter Brill begins here. Today De Gruyter and Brill will continue as one company: De Gruyter Brill, the leading publisher in the humanities.

New! Tracks in the Field - "Byzantine Animals: Forgotten Citizens of a 'Forgotten' Empire" by Przemysław Marciniak online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/2/1

Delighted that my study of "Archbishop Hraban Maurus, King Lothar II and the Roman Army" is now published in the Festschrift for Geneviève Bührer-Thierry, alongside many other (much better) contributions!
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You’re just Takin the piss now!

Raytheon Executive: I know you’re skeptical about buying American again. But hear me out. The MIM-104 Patriot is the only surface to air missile system with a proven track record of success against the US Air Force.

Danish Defense Minister: Continue.

Is this a pigeon meme with the person labeled Bluesky, the butterfly an is statement and captioned is this an ought?

Not insulting enough but:

Picture from A Knight’s Tale with shattered lances depicted with broken spaghetti

I know he had some interesting politics, but a decent chunk of the Keats I’ve read came as a result encountering and loving Dan Simmons‘ Hyperion Cantos. I may have to dig out my copies.

Animals and multi‐species considerations of well‐being 500–1100 Much of the scholarship on early medieval English medicinal ingredients has focussed on herbal remedies and the role of plants in healing activities. This approach detracts from the significance of a...

New in Early Medieval Europe: what role did animals play in early medieval medicinal and well-being practices? A study by Holly Miller and Christina Lee (£)
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A Green win must mean that "left behind" voters forgotten by Westminster want open borders and legalised class A drugs. That's how it works right?

An oblong sheet of written parchment, formerly sealed.

The only surviving original Carolingian "littera formata", like a passport for a priest. Issued in Lucca, now in Pavia. archiviodigitale-icar.cultura.gov.it/it/185/ricer...

Surely feet? stirring-fox-7e1fab.netlify.app

Important to note that there are more than ten questions!

Fun game for the history nerds! Note that you’ll need to specify CE or BCE sometimes. I got within twenty years for nine out of ten but was out by a century for the other which I’m feeling slightly sheepish about.

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map showing locations of meetings. Red indicates more than one meeting was held there.

Where did Carolingian Frankish kings meet to settle their disputes? Here are the locations of the 15 meetings 842-878 that issued surviving agreements.

This has been a slog but I’m pleased to day that I’m currently checking the proofs, which means this book will soon be out in the wild!

Zebulon Aiton Lash - Wikipedia

I am outraged that none of my Canadian friends alerted me to the existence of Zebulon Lash, who I can only conclude was a time traveler from the 25th century who crash landed in Victorian-era Ontario.

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This could be the bridge! His latest book is almost all late antiquity

We need a medievalist equivalent and we need it now

My Biographical Memoir of Jinty Nelson for the British Academy is now available on their website, open access on this link www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/m...

I'm stuck in Dublin airport with a delayed flight, so let me tell you about the lecture I gave this afternoon to my 2nd-year group of Law, History & Celtic Studies students who are studying early Irish law. We were looking at a piece of legislation called Cáin Adomnáin, also sometimes called
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