Good morning, York. Time to start our last day of @jorvikviking.bsky.social properly with breakfast at Bettys. #JVF25

#Vikings on TV tend to have a dark wild-looking aesthetic but finds from 10th century #Sweden suggest male interests in colourful fashions, silk, shiny buttons, & fancy hats - all to show status, something also backed up in textual accounts #medievalsky #britishmuseum

An all-too brief thread on what some call the ‘Baltic’ or ‘Second Viking Age’. Its not possible to go into huge amounts of detail but I’ve ref’d primary sources where appropriate.

I cover this topic in the last chapter of my newest book, Forgotten Vikings! #VikingFriday

@jorvikviking.bsky.social "Wonder if they have these in my size?"

It's time.
Finally time for your roving reporter Ood the Tiny to head out to the @jorvikviking.bsky.social Festival. Expect updates through today and tomorrow as we zoom about the city of York, seeing all the good things the city has to offer!

A large number of finds from Clatterbridge, #Wirral include some which maybe of Viking Age date. Here is an early Medieval lead alloy gaming piece or weight. Similar gaming pieces were found at Torksey and were used in the game of Hnefatafl #medievalsky

Your day is a success when you visit an archaeological excavation and the archaeologists show you their newest runic find. A piece of bone with ‘l’ and some tiny marks. Every single rune counts. #runology

SNEAK PREVIEW - "Life in the Viking Great Army: Raiders, Traders, and Settlers" by @danelawdawn.bsky.social and me, with contributions by Dave Haldenby, Gareth Perry, @trixranderson.bsky.social. Published tomorrow 9 Jan by OUP - global.oup.com/academic/pro.... Culmination of over a decade's research

And ALSO OUT NOW - two searchable and illustrated databases of over 5000 artefacts from Aldwark and Torksey - doi.org/10.5284/1115...
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Supplementary materials with a reuse value! All known artefacts from these key Viking sites now online