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Dr Caitlin Green
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Dr Caitlin Green

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History, archaeology, place-names & early lit. Main research on post-Roman Britain & Anglo-Saxon England; also long-distance trade, migration & contact.

Cornwall/Lincolnshire
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    1. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 16 Jan 2015

      A really fabulously odd Merovingian ?E7thC buckle, w/ Christ on horseback! http://cem.revues.org/6752  Love the fangs!pic.twitter.com/i4YOCOX80n

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      Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 16 Jan 2015

      A photograph of the Merovingian buckle showing Christ w/ fangs on horseback, via http://plaques-boucles.chez-alice.fr/ pic.twitter.com/UvY0jDKcdy

      12:57 PM - 16 Jan 2015
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        2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 8 Jun 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          This still makes me smile every time I stumble across it! :) Even has its own Facebook group too...! Seehttp://blog.cnbeyer.com/just-plain-weird/67/ …

          3 replies 4 retweets 10 likes
        3. Catherine Street‏ @CatherineEsse 8 Jun 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          @caitlinrgreen @HisInterrupted :)))

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        4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 8 Jun 2015
          Replying to @CatherineEsse

          @CatherineEsse @HisInterrupted ooh, thanks :)

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        2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 20 Mar 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          A 9thC depiction of Christ as a warrior, Stuttgart Psalter, c.820: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttgart_Psalter … & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_Christianity …pic.twitter.com/UUqKiht6Zw

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        2. Lesley Candlin‏ @Tig1971 16 Jan 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          @caitlinrgreen @medievalhistory Horse or ant eater?

          1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 16 Jan 2015
          Replying to @Tig1971

          @Tig1971 @medievalhistory I quite like the centipede-horse thing in the top right corner! (prob beast of Revelations?) Definitely different!

          1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
        4. Lesley Candlin‏ @Tig1971 16 Jan 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          @caitlinrgreen @medievalhistory Haha! I hadn't looked that far, but now I have - whoa! - is the horse hybrid a little excited?!

          1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
        5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 16 Jan 2015
          Replying to @Tig1971

          @Tig1971 @medievalhistory lol, def a little! Is apparently not unparalleled, w/ an image of Christ trampling a serpent in similar state!

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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        2. T S P‏ @morangles 16 Jan 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          @caitlinrgreen Merovingian Christ is generally shown w/some diadem or sunrays halo seldom w/axe & spear Apocalypse horseman Death?

          3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 16 Jan 2015
          Replying to @morangles

          @morangles articles I linked earlier seem fairly convinced, ref Rev 19:15; cf also this? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frankish_depiction_of_Jesus.JPG …pic.twitter.com/kb8NUaKW0w

          2 replies 1 retweet 1 like
        4. T S P‏ @morangles 16 Jan 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          @caitlinrgreen Horses beltspic.twitter.com/Wbsvi4pqpk

          2 replies 1 retweet 4 likes
        5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 16 Jan 2015
          Replying to @morangles

          Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Wulfgar the Bard

          @morangles these are lovely too, tho horses not as sinuous as on this buckle! Similar sinuous horses here btw:https://twitter.com/wulfgarthebard/status/556071242428850176 …

          Dr Caitlin Green added,

          Wulfgar the Bard @WulfgarTheBard
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen
          @caitlinrgreen A similar image was found by @HeadlandArchUK during their dig on Inchmarnock pic.twitter.com/3wPKCA0zXP
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        2. Christopher Howse‏ @BeardyHowse 16 Jan 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          @caitlinrgreen That's quite something. The drawing is bound to interpret. Would you put the radiating lines from the head as an aureole?

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 16 Jan 2015
          Replying to @BeardyHowse

          @BeardyHowse That seems to be the thinking, tho' wild hair is possible alternative---could be merging of Christian & trad imagery?

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        4. Christopher Howse‏ @BeardyHowse 18 Jan 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          @caitlinrgreen Fangs but no fangs? Are there analogues for depicting teeth so. I can't quite see them.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 18 Jan 2015
          Replying to @BeardyHowse

          @BeardyHowse Hmm, not sure on that; this is Bailey Young on them, fwiw: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ARd9mp97V_UC&pg=PA351&lpg=PA351&dq=fangs#v=onepage&q=fangs&f=false … (based on Henri Gaillard de Sémainville)

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        6. Christopher Howse‏ @BeardyHowse 18 Jan 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          @caitlinrgreen Thanks. It's all very odd. Funny too that the alpha and omega are reversed. You've given me plenty to follow up.

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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        2. Steve Dyke‏ @hewasahero 16 Jan 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          @caitlinrgreen @greg_jenner Please tell me this is real…! I know the story of Christ has been rewritten, probably more than once. Fangs yet!

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 17 Jan 2015
          Replying to @hewasahero

          @hewasahero @greg_jenner Hah :) yes, it is real!

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