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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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/ …
@CatherineEsse @HisInterrupted ooh, thanks :)
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
@caitlinrgreen @medievalhistory Horse or ant eater?
@Tig1971 @medievalhistory I quite like the centipede-horse thing in the top right corner! (prob beast of Revelations?) Definitely different!
@caitlinrgreen @medievalhistory Haha! I hadn't looked that far, but now I have - whoa! - is the horse hybrid a little excited?!
@Tig1971 @medievalhistory lol, def a little! Is apparently not unparalleled, w/ an image of Christ trampling a serpent in similar state!
@caitlinrgreen Merovingian Christ is generally shown w/some diadem or sunrays halo seldom w/axe & spear Apocalypse horseman Death?
@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
@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 …
@caitlinrgreen That's quite something. The drawing is bound to interpret. Would you put the radiating lines from the head as an aureole?
@BeardyHowse That seems to be the thinking, tho' wild hair is possible alternative---could be merging of Christian & trad imagery?
@caitlinrgreen Fangs but no fangs? Are there analogues for depicting teeth so. I can't quite see them.
@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)
@caitlinrgreen Thanks. It's all very odd. Funny too that the alpha and omega are reversed. You've given me plenty to follow up.
@caitlinrgreen @greg_jenner Please tell me this is real…! I know the story of Christ has been rewritten, probably more than once. Fangs yet!
@hewasahero @greg_jenner Hah :) yes, it is real!
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