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Mapping ancient Germania

Berlin Researchers Crack the Ptolemy Code

A 2nd century map of Germania by the scholar Ptolemy has always stumped scholars, who were unable to relate the places depicted to known settlements. Now a team of researchers have cracked the code, revealing that half of Germany’s cities are 1,000 years older than previously thought.

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Map of Hadrian’s Wall circa 1250 AD.

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blistersonmyfinger:

This illustration is why, in popular culture, Vikings are constantly depicted wearing horned helmets.

Carl Emil Doepler was hired to create the costumes for Wagner’s opera Der Ring des Nibelungen. His shoddy research led to the myth about Viking age helmets sporting those ridiculous appendages.

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A stunning collection of 7th century treasure, shedding light on the extraordinary life of an Anglo-Saxon princess, is set to be revealed to the public for the first time.

The astonishing artefacts – found in Loftus, East Cleveland, between 2005 and 2007 at the only known Anglo-Saxon royal burial site in North-East England – have been hailed by archaeologists as some of the rarest ever discovered.

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late 5th-early 6th century (Early Medieval)

This ornament may have formed part of an earring or necklace. The polyhedral shape was a favorite among the Ostrogoths.

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Ancient Ptolemys map of Ireland-Scotia-Hibernia

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Saxon and Viking encampment at Corfe Castle.

This will be my first event. SO EXCITE.

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Grianan of Aileach

An Irish creation myth claims that this fortress was built by the great king Daghda of Tuatha de Danann. The grave of the king's son Aeah was in the centre of the fortress, which had been built around it.

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Varangian Guard

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Dunrobin Stone

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Donar Oak

While many oak trees have been referred to as "Donar Oaks", the most meaningful of them is the oak chopped down by Saint Boniface in the early eighth century. According to the saint's hagiography the tree stood at a location near the village of Geismar (today part of the town of Fritzlar) in northern Hesse, and was the main point of veneration of the Germanic deity known among the West Germanic Chatti tribes and most other Germanic tribes as 'Donar (High German: Donner = thunder), by the Old English (Anglo-Saxons) as Thunor and by northern Germanics as Thor. It was deliberately chopped down in 723 and symbolizes the beginning of the Christianization of the non-Frankish tribes of northern Germany.