Re: LRT, a Viking axe found in the River Witham, Lincolnshire, in @collectionlinc (my pic):pic.twitter.com/cAeNY3I4o3
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A silver inlaid Merovingian iron axe, 7thC, from Neuwied, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany: http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pe_mla/i/iron_axe-head_inlaid_with_silv.aspx …pic.twitter.com/ab8VkuuMPX
@caitlinrgreen The last 2 are rather ostentatious, aren't they?
@EquineAnn Indeed! Prob ceremonial, at least in part?
@EquineAnn @caitlinrgreen not necessarily, please check Islamic weaponry in middle ages .
@Ahmed_Alhasania @caitlinrgreen Some of them were very decorative because they were made for & used by the nobility.
@EquineAnn @caitlinrgreen I agree, but to use in practical use, wars.
@Ahmed_Alhasania @caitlinrgreen Definitely.
Bamberg Casket--10thC Viking casket w/ walrus ivory decorated in Mammen style, via Tumblr see https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gYBJCAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA371&pg=PA371#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/1XPAMXzzd5
Detail from Cammin Casket of c.AD 1000 in Mammen style (replica; original destroyed in WWII) http://benedante.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/the-cammin-casket_30.html …pic.twitter.com/p6lAlANFA5
Axe w/ gold decoration that may reference legend of Sigurd the dragon-slayer, found on Volga http://blog.britishmuseum.org/2014/02/28/vikings-in-russia/ …pic.twitter.com/r422SPYzcn
@caitlinrgreen Jutland is in Denmark where is Volga as Volga is a river in Russia so is it from that Volga?
@caitlinrgreen ahaan wow i guess there are thousands of miles in between jutland and Volga as volga falls into Caspian nearly touching Asia
@Umarkarim89 The Vikings got about! ;) Don't forget, they used camels to get to Baghdad in the mid-9thC!
@caitlinrgreen by the way my sister visited Stonehenge and my mother got quite curious that what is that so gv an archaeology lecture :)
@Umarkarim89 Oh, well done! Your sister ought to try Avebury too---is fabulous! :)
@caitlinrgreen ahaan well tell her so that she can visit it on one of the weekend travels. She also visited Bath and Shakespeare birth place
@caitlinrgreen @Tweets2CV nice - pillaging with style
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