The Long 10th Century, just out! #newbookspic.twitter.com/s7XfVFGNhp
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Some 9thC Anglo-Saxon finds, just because :-)pic.twitter.com/E7cf15iJK9
Two more 9thC pieces, posted before but lovely :) St John w/ eagle head (Suffolk) & eagle of St John ring (Surrey):pic.twitter.com/V7sxd5SK4b
The eagle-headed St John, prob from a cross, is http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=84963&partId=1&images=true … The ring is http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=84994&partId=1 …
Of course, what if 9thC is "long" as well?!? *worries* I mean, Vikings first raid England in 790s & Danelaw only reconquered in E10thC...
@caitlinrgreen Does #Derby (placename) have a #Danish origin?
@JAJafri yes, Old Norse djura (deer, plural) + by (farm), so 'deer farm', replacing earlier Old English name meaning 'northern enclosure'
@caitlinrgreen Thanks! And the old name was? Roman #Derventium related to the river #Derwent? The surname #Darwin also comes from #Derwent?
@JAJafri old name was Old English Northuuorthige; Roman fort named from river, Primitive Welsh *derwint
@caitlinrgreen Thanks very much! Never knew that! So, modern English name for #Derby could have been Northworth! Has Derwint got a meaning?
@JAJafri :) Yes, *derwint is a derivative of a Celtic word for oak, so river where oaks grow abundantly or similar? May be reformation of >
@JAJafri > Indo-European rover-name in *dreu, 'to run'?
@caitlinrgreen @Pseudo_Isidore The Phantom Time Hypothesis would have it that the 9th century was so "short" because it didn't exist...
@ClassAssocNI @Pseudo_Isidore Lol! Is that the Russian hypothesis that sees medieval history as a tissue of lies?
@caitlinrgreen @Pseudo_Isidore A German historian's idea that Otto III had historians create the years 614-911...
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_time_hypothesis …
@ClassAssocNI @Pseudo_Isidore Ah! I was thinking of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Chronology_(Fomenko) …, but that sounds similarly daft ;)
@caitlinrgreen @Pseudo_Isidore Seems there is notoriety to be gained by denying that large sections of history did not happen...
@ClassAssocNI @Pseudo_Isidore Yes, curious isn't it? Indeed, seem to recall Russian theory actually planned to be taught in some schools!
@caitlinrgreen @Pseudo_Isidore My first reaction to PTH was that it was an historian looking to drum up interest in the Dark Ages. Cynical?
@ClassAssocNI @Pseudo_Isidore Hah! Those dastardly medievalists! ;)
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