This is quite nice too--early 11C runic inscription from Saltfleetby, Lincs, mentions Odin etc http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/409249 …pic.twitter.com/QCNvrNx6AN
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An 8thC Anglo-Saxon writing tablet w/ lightly incised runes, from Blythburgh, Suffolk: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=89470&partId=1&page=26&matcult=8832&sortBy=imageName …pic.twitter.com/tiZO7C9Anx
Another whalebone item, a 9thC Viking plaque w/ open-work horses' heads, found in Norway: http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pe_mla/w/whalebone_plaque.aspx …pic.twitter.com/D48onMS9Ib
Another whalebone plaque, from Orkney, with discussion and details: http://www.teachinghistory100.org/objects/about_the_object/a_viking_dragon_plaque …pic.twitter.com/Pns3FKUM0b
This is a nice shot, showing how tiny this 11thC spindle whorl w/ runic inscription is :) https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/409249 …pic.twitter.com/1ARWwlexAQ
Runic inscription of lns 73–5 of Old English religious poem Azarias found on 8/9thC tweezers: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/511213 …pic.twitter.com/9ju1OGPBnz
Tweezers found at Honington, south Lincolnshire, and is suggested that item may have had an ecclesiastical purpose, perhaps candle-snuffers?
@caitlinrgreen how were we able to first translate this form of runes? Was it due to a rosetta stone type multi language find?
@wildgooseman Looking around, apparently folk knowledge: "In 1593 Bureus... learned to read the runes from the local farmers." etc
@caitlinrgreen thx for the reply. Does this mean the runic writing/language was still in use circa the 17th century?
@wildgooseman Well, apparently so in late 16th-century Sweden, or at least it was still understood by some? Not my specialism though!! :)
@caitlinrgreen The #Norse gods were still worshiped in parts of #Scandinavia at that time? Anywhere in Britain (in 11th century)?
@JAJafri that inscription is from the east coast of Ljncolnshire, a late pagan survival :)
@caitlinrgreen There were #Pagans on the east coast of #Lincolnshire as late as the 11th century! @HistoryNeedsYou @chopin_slut @Duncan207
@JAJafri @caitlinrgreen @HistoryNeedsYou @chopin_slut @Duncan207 Allusions to paganism in penance texts of 10c found in 11c manuscripts
@anglosaxonmonk @JAJafri @caitlinrgreen @HistoryNeedsYou @Duncan207 does anybody have actual source references??????%%robert


@chopin_slut @JAJafri @caitlinrgreen @HistoryNeedsYou @Duncan207 http://www.anglo-saxon.net/penance/index.php?p=CORP190_368&anchor=S31.01.01Refers … to witchcraft, pejorative for paganism
@anglosaxonmonk @JAJafri @caitlinrgreen @HistoryNeedsYou @Duncan207 Thank you SO much,Christopher!!! %%robert
@anglosaxonmonk @JAJafri @caitlinrgreen @HistoryNeedsYou @Duncan207 4> Norse...yet
%%robert 


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