@ccooijmans.bsky.social
Viking Historian | Research Fellow @uio.no | Assoc. Researcher @livunihss.bsky.social | vikings in continental Europe | medieval(ism) | histor(iograph)y https://hcommons.org/members/ccooijmans
King Gorm the Old, destroyer of the Fabulous Age
Speaking of exhibitions, we're thrilled to also be contributing to the upcoming 'Vikingmania!', developed by our friends at the Museum of Danish America - more details soon!
Petition to once again - properly and correctly - refer to late Scandinavian prehistory as 'the Fabulous Age'.
Petition to once again - properly and correctly - refer to late Scandinavian prehistory as 'the Fabulous Age'.
We're excited to go and see 'Vikings and Wales: Past & Present' at the Norwegian Church Arts Centre in Cardiff next month. Some of the findings from our Great Viking Survey have helped shape the exhibition and will also be on display!
Agreed! And no worries at all!
(reposted as the original link had a paywall)
Very happy to take part in this. The proposed legislation is not fit for purpose, solely benefits AI companies, and will make it even more difficult for many authors and artists to make ends meet.
Certainly - but you can only fit so many rivers on a graph! 😉
The Dyle is very much in the book, though 🙂
Aw shucks, Clare 😊
This morning's lecture on the vikings in Francia was enhanced by this graphic of Frankish rivers, taken from @ccooijmans.bsky.social's admirable book.
Flashback to the most excellent misspelling of my name, and the best pseudonym I could wish for 🕶️🎸
The plagiarism machine has discovered necromancy.
The plagiarism machine has discovered necromancy.
This is a really weird fantasia of Edinburgh (and its geography) as it never was and is *full* to the brim of the sorts of simple yet glaring errors and anachronisms you would never have gotten if you hadn't left it to a computer to just barf out an averagised slop answer.
"And that was Lawn Chair Armöur, the up and coming Norwegian black metal band from Croydon..."
#medievalism at its finest 👌
One of our survey respondents characterised present-day popular viking outfits as 'lawn chair armour', and there is frankly no better description out there.
Following the earlier Oseberg and Gokstad ship relocations, the Tune ship, snug in its steel rig, has started its journey into the new Museum of the Viking Age (@uio.no) today. Over the course of three days, it will travel a total of 130 metres at a top speed of c. 24 cm per minute.
In your ears?
Great job to you both!
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Some Friday wisdom from our Great Viking Survey dataset:
The UHI Archaeology Institute is looking for a post-doctoral researcher to record and analyse the human remains from a Pictish/Norse cemetery in Orkney.
I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center:
If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.
Capitalism ouroboros: Paying someone else to pull you up by your bootstraps
Capitalism ouroboros: Paying someone else to pull you up by your bootstraps
