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Rivendell © Patrick

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Gorgeous wooden Norse god figurines carved from linwood with runic inscriptions by Triumpho

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A bird’s nest in a broken skull at St. Leonard’s Crypt.

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Elegant spray of white/clear natrolite (zeolite). From Strawberry Hill, Yachats, Lane Co., Oregon.

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Paper Cabbalistic amulet for the cure of jaundice for Abraham Elijah, son of Bela, with parchment storage sleeve, c. 1700-1800. [3438x4032]

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Neptuno (Melenara, Gran Canaria).

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Trethevy Quoit Portal Dolmen, St. Cleer, Cornwall, 24.7.19.

There's no denying that Trethevy Quoit is one of the most spectacular of the Cornwall quoits. Known also as 'Giant's House', the hole in the front of the structure may well have been the real entrance to the chamber. Largely intact, the monument stands at 9ft high.

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Medieval Warrior Woman Found in a Viking Graveyard Was No Viking

When archaeologists discovered the remains of a woman in a Viking graveyard in Denmark, an axe near her skeleton told them that she may have been a fighter. But closer examination of both the weapon and her burial revealed something unexpected: She was no Viking.

Rather, the woman was Slavic, and likely came from a region in Eastern Europe that is now Poland, representatives of Poland’s Ministry of Science and Higher Education said in a statement.

A coin from the cemetery, on the Danish island of Langeland, revealed that the burial site is about 1,000 years old, according to the statement. The woman’s grave was the only one that held a weapon.

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The two-sided statue of Mephistopheles and Margaretta (19th Century) at the Salar Jung Museum in India. The sculpture is carved out of a single log of sycamore wood. Artist unknown

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Depiction of Odin on The Funen bracteate (DR BR42 = DR IK58), found in Funen, Denmark. Within Norse paganism, Oðinn was the deity primarily associated with Seiðr. The runic inscription is read as: houaz laþu aaduaaaliia a. According to the display at the National Museum of Denmark, houaz is interpreted as “The High One”, a name of Odin. ©Bloodofox, Wikimedia Commons.

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Replica Roman Temple of the Nymphs, Roman Graves and Roman Devotional Monument, Vindolanda Roman Fort and Vicus, Hadrian’s Wall, Northumberland, 31.5.19.