The Thule tribe is eliminated from being the Skrælings in the Sagas

Old Norse News -- a new resource

Knives from the Viking Age

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There have been several interesting articles that grabbed my attention and I thought I'd share.

Platypus Genome -- as weird as you think
How cleaning up America dried up the Amazon
The Power that William Connelly of Wikipedia has

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eyja will have to write:

I will not lie in bed just like Brian Wilson did

'What will you have to write on the chalk board?' at QuizGalaxy.com

Trading across medieval Europe revealed in cod bones

And the first animal on Earth was...

Language Log: The evolutionary psychology of irregular morphology (or Bush Said Something Weird Again...Why?)

Orchid's sexual deception triggers ejaculation (or Mommy, what's that wasp doing to that flower?)

How many vikings does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

None, we can see just fine by the light of this burning church, thank you.

drykkja, f. 'a drinking-bout, carousal, banquet ( Read more... )

So, I've been talking to Danae, the guy in Oregon who makes lyres. I've found out that he's been making lyres for 2 years and has sold about 20 of them -- his first to someone in the SCA and the rest mostly to the UK, of all places ( Read more... )

On YouTube someone has posted a 3 part video of two guys doing a Anglo-Saxon lyre demo. I don't know how accurate they are with their information, but I thought I would share it. So far, mostly talking and not a lot of playing. Music playing by the third part, but I'm *much* more impressed by Michael King (guy in Britain who makes lyres).

Part ( Read more... )