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city-of-ladies · 3 days

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"Therefore, the references to Thyra on both groups of stones likely refer to the same person – the Danish Queen and mother of Harald Bluetooth. This indicates that she was a particularly powerful and celebrated individual. It is likely that she held land and authority in her own right, not only through her husband. “No other Viking man or woman in Denmark has been mentioned on that many runestones,” says Dr Imer, “and it underlines her undeniable importance for the assembling of the realm under the rule of her son, Harald Bluetooth.”

Importantly, this means that women likely had more influence in Viking-Age Denmark than previously believed. It indicates that Viking women may have been able to hold power in their own right and rule on behalf of their husbands or under-age sons. It also has important implications for our knowledge on the formation of the Danish state. The authors conclude:

If we accept that runestones were granite manifestations of status, lineage and power, we may suggest that Thyra was indeed of royal, Jutlandic descent. Both Gorm and Harald refer to her in the runestone texts and Ravnunge-Tue describes her as his dróttning, that is, ‘lady’ or ‘queen’. Combined with the designation of Thyra as Danmarkaʀ bót, ‘Denmark’s strength/salvation’, these honours point towards a powerful woman who held status, land and authority in her own right. The combination of the present analyses and the geographical distribution of the runestones indicates that Thyra was one of the key figures—or even the key figure—for the assembling of the Danish realm, in which she herself may have played an active part.""

#thyra #history #women's history #queens #women in history #denmark #danish history #vikings #10th century #medieval women #middle ages #medieval history #runestones #harald bluetooth

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theancientwayoflife · 4 months

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~ Eccentric Flint in the Form of a Scorpion.

Place of origin: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, or Mexico (Mesoamerica)

Culture: Maya

Date: A.D. 600–900

Medium: Stone, Chert

#7th century #10th century #flint #eccentric flint #scorpion #mesoamerica #maya #mexico #belize #guatemala #honduras #stone #chert #a.d. 600 #a.d. 900 #history #museum #archeology #archaeology

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cuties-in-codices · 5 months

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musical instruments and music theory

illustrations for boethius' 6th c. treatise "de musica", einsiedeln, 10th century

source: Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 358, p. 144, 214, 206, and 213

#10th century #music theory #medieval music theory #boethius #medieval manuscript #musical instruments #medieval musical instruments

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mapsontheweb · 1 month

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Hungarian raids in Europe, 9th-10th century.

#maps #raids #hungarians #europe #9th century #10th century

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disease · 6 days

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STELE WITH EIGHT GREAT EVENTS FROM THE LIFE OF THE BUDDHA | X CENTURY

#sculpture #buddhism #spirituality #sacred #10th century #u

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thatshowthingstarted · 6 months

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Gold bracelets dated 9th–10th centur, Constantinople, Turkey.

Each bracelet consists of twenty partitions that are framed by granular strips and are decorated with cloisonné enamel.

The partitions alternately depict birds pecking at leaves, palms and rosettes and are rendered in different colour variations.

Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki

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ceremonial · 2 years

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Anya Taylor-Joy in The Northman (2022) dir. Robert Eggers

#filmedit #perioddramaedit #ataylorjoyedit #zanisummers #usermckayla #userrobin #the northman #movies #gifs #2020s #10th century #ours:gifs #*#gina

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gwydpolls · 3 months

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Time Travel Question 39: Medievalish and Earlier 6

These Questions are the result of suggestions from the previous iteration.

This category may include suggestions made too late to fall into the correct earlier time grouping. Basically, I'd already moved on to human history, but I'd periodically get a pre-homin suggestion, hence the occasional random item waaay out of it's time period, rather than reopen the category.

In some cases a culture lasted a really long time and I grouped them by whether it was likely the later or earlier grouping made the most sense with the information I had. (Invention ofs tend to fall in an earlier grouping if it's still open. Ones that imply height of or just before something tend to get grouped later, but not always. Sometimes I'll split two different things from the same culture into different polls because they involve separate research goals or the like).

Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration. All cultures and time periods welcome.

#Time Travel #The Pāla Empire #10th Century #The Jaintia Kingdom #700 CE #15th Century #Polish History #Indian History #Middle Ages #Greek Fire #East Roman Empire #Western Asian History #Loki #History of Religion #Indigenous History #The Americas

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calyptridium · 7 months

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interior of chapel saint michel d'aiguilhe, built in 969

#saint michel d'aiguilhe #france #10th century #architecture

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tygerland · 7 months

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Suddenly then

the God-cursed brute was creating havoc;

greedy and grim, he grabbed thirty men

from their resting places and rushed to his lair,

flushed up and inflamed from the raid,

blundering back with the butchered corpses.

- Beowulf Seamus Heaney 1999 translation.

(Grendel artwork by John Henry Frederick Bacon 1910.)

#literature #10th century #beowulf #pagan #mythology #grendel #lit #myth #horror #fantasy #reading #dark academia #poetry #monster #folklore #seamus heaney #occult #supernatural #demon #dark #📚

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vintage-russia · 20 days

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From "Russian historical clothes from the 10th to the 13th centuries" (1877)

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theancientwayoflife · 11 months

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~ Hunchback Leaning on Staff.

Date: 10th–12th century

Place of origin: Mexico, Mesoamerica, Veracruz

Culture: Huastec

Medium: Sandstone

#history #museum #archeology #archaeology #10th century #11th century #hunchback leaning on staff #hunchback #Mesoamerica #Veracruz #Mexico #huasteca #huastec

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cuties-in-codices · 5 months

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birth of serpents from the blood of titans

illustration for the "theriaca" by 2nd-century bc greek poet nicander of colophon, constantinople, 10th century

source: Paris, BnF, Supplément grec 247, fol. 47r

#10th century #medieval art #nicander of colophon #theriaca #serpents #titans #mythology #illuminated manuscript #greek mythology

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mapsontheweb · 4 months

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The birth of Hungary

by LegendesCarto

#maps #LegendesCarto #twsourced #central europe #hungary #10th century #11th century

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fandoms--fluff · 3 months

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Hi! Ive been a fan of your works for awhile now and id like to request something different, like tatia x reader (including the mikaelsons) with reader and tatia dying together.

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Female reader x Tatia Petrova

Warnings: death, blood, knives

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Elijah and Klaus watch as Tatia and you dance to the music by the big bonfire. Everyone in the village thinks that you're best friends, you're rarely ever seen apart. Which is what you both want everyone to think, knowing what would happen if they knew the truth.

The truth that only the two Mikaelson brothers know. They promised you both that they would keep your secret to the grave.

You guys laugh and twirl each other around. Dancing with some of the younger children when they come up to you guys.

You wave over the two young men to come have fun. "Oh come on, stop being so stoic, have some fun," Tatia tells them. Before long, the four of you are laughing and having the time of your lives.

Everything is perfect.

Until it isn't.

You watch in horror as Esther bleeds your girlfriend out, collecting her blood in a basin. You try stopping her with a blade that is lying on a stool. As you close on her, she mutters something and the blade goes flying out of your hand to the other side of the room.

You let out a scream before noticing how she let go of Tatia who's barely breathing, onto the floor. She advances up to you before dragging you over to the basin as well, using the same knife she used on Tatia, on you, bleeding you out into the basin.

Your love's and your blood mixes together in the basin. Your eyes feel heavy by the time Esther's done with you. She drops you next to Tatia and picks the basin up before leaving through the wooden door.

You turn to the best of your abilities to Tatia, who is blinking slowly as well. Her frown turns into a small smile seeing you. Her mouth parts slightly, "I love you" She whispers just loud enough for you to hear.

"I love you too" you muster up strength and whisper back. That's the last thing that happens before everything's dark.

The room is silent, no more breaths of air emitting from your guys' forms on the ground.

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ltwilliammowett · 1 year

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Erik Röde discovers Greenland, by Carl Rasmussen, 1875

#naval art #erik röde #vikings #10th century #medieval seafaring

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