
I see your basket cat & raise you a basket cat 7 comments
snowbeast
· 3 years ago
@nelson
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Potatoes! 3 comments
snowbeast
· 3 years ago
Tag yourself I'm both jars. Speaking of jars, during the late Iron Age, the dead in Scandinavia were almost exclusively cremated. The cremains were then placed in JARS, buried and covered with a layer of rocks called a stone setting. Stone settings are usually round but may be square or triangular. They may be flat or mounded, with mounds more common towards the end of the Iron Age.
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I bet they ended up on sale at half off 3 comments
snowbeast
· 3 years ago
Thanks! I just sprayed tea all over myself. The cat ran for her life. I thought the guy in peach was naked from the waist down except for his trouser legs.
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Rune-substance #2 14 comments
snowbeast
· 3 years ago
I am studying archaeology, and the topic of my essay this term is language development as traced through runestones and early Christian graves. I have a fair few photos :-)
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Rune-substance #2 14 comments
snowbeast
· 3 years ago
Aren't I?! Yes I take all pictures myself, otherwise I credit the photographer. This stone is about an hour away from my home.
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Rune-substance #2 14 comments
Rune-substance #2 14 comments
snowbeast
· 3 years ago
Runestone from the mid to late 1000s located in the village of Hov, Sweden. This one is a whopper, 2m high and 1.7m wide. Many runestones were repurposed as building material - this one was found in 1867 built into the cellar of a manor house. Here is another cross - the majority of 11th century runestones reference Christianity in the text, decorations or both.
Old Norse translitteration:
Tunna/Tonna satti stæin þ[annsi æf]tiʀ sinn ver Þorfast. Vas hann manna mæstr oniðingʀ.
English:
Tunna/Tonna placed this stone in memory of her husband Þorfastr. He was the most unvillainous of men.
ID for those who know these things: L2012:8466 / Ög 77
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Old Norse translitteration:
Tunna/Tonna satti stæin þ[annsi æf]tiʀ sinn ver Þorfast. Vas hann manna mæstr oniðingʀ.
English:
Tunna/Tonna placed this stone in memory of her husband Þorfastr. He was the most unvillainous of men.
ID for those who know these things: L2012:8466 / Ög 77
Their Time Has Come 9 comments
Their Time Has Come 9 comments
snowbeast
· 3 years ago
Oh thank goodness. My first association was to people harming themselves with razors. De-hairing is much better.
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Went hiking yesterday. 27 comments
snowbeast
· 3 years ago
I'm east of @karlboll in a city called Linköping. We have great trails too including the 33km "Omberg runt" which follows-ish the perimeter of a moraine on the east side of massive Lake Vättern. The views are stunning. My hip flexors stopped working after that hike - I had to lift my legs with my hands into my car afterwards :-D
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I was sick first two years but then society got better 7 comments
snowbeast
· 3 years ago
*shakes fist impotently* I'm still working from home, and my company rarely uses video, so no one cares if I'm at my desk naked either. HOW TO REBEL
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Egg Day 2 comments
How many such events weren't photographed? 9 comments
snowbeast
· 3 years ago
Gorbachev was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990. He sent tanks into Lithuania to quell the freedom demonstrations in 1991. Blew my young mind.
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