Dr Jasmin Higgs
@jaztherunologist.bsky.social
Runologist for hire!
☦️• interested in runic inscriptions, historical linguistics, and writing systems
Currently Hub Support Worker for local sexual violence support services.
☦️• interested in runic inscriptions, historical linguistics, and writing systems
Currently Hub Support Worker for local sexual violence support services.
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A tiny starter pack of #runology: go.bsky.app/2GTwP8M
October 23, 2025 at 7:42 PM
A tiny starter pack of #runology: go.bsky.app/2GTwP8M
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Lovely to give a talk at Southwell Women’s Institute with @jaztherunologist.bsky.social and Francesca Squitieri on Women in the Viking Age. A very kind and enthusiastic audience!
October 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Lovely to give a talk at Southwell Women’s Institute with @jaztherunologist.bsky.social and Francesca Squitieri on Women in the Viking Age. A very kind and enthusiastic audience!
Linguist friends… any help with script identification and possible interpretation? #mystery #mysteryscript #icon #orthodoxicon
September 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Linguist friends… any help with script identification and possible interpretation? #mystery #mysteryscript #icon #orthodoxicon
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Gorgeous glass gaming pieces from the Late British Iron Age.
This unique set of 24 coloured glass domes with a flattened base and spiral decoration may have been used for a game similar to ludo some 2,000 years ago.
British Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
This unique set of 24 coloured glass domes with a flattened base and spiral decoration may have been used for a game similar to ludo some 2,000 years ago.
British Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
September 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Gorgeous glass gaming pieces from the Late British Iron Age.
This unique set of 24 coloured glass domes with a flattened base and spiral decoration may have been used for a game similar to ludo some 2,000 years ago.
British Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
This unique set of 24 coloured glass domes with a flattened base and spiral decoration may have been used for a game similar to ludo some 2,000 years ago.
British Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Very delighted to say that I graduated with my PhD in English on Monday.
July 31, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Very delighted to say that I graduated with my PhD in English on Monday.
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In usual IMC fashion, now that #IMC25 has concluded we are searching for papers exploring New Perspectives on the Viking Diaspora. Please get in touch if you are interested and share widely! #IMC26 @imc-leeds.bsky.social
July 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
In usual IMC fashion, now that #IMC25 has concluded we are searching for papers exploring New Perspectives on the Viking Diaspora. Please get in touch if you are interested and share widely! #IMC26 @imc-leeds.bsky.social
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Friends & colleagues, the amazing OG(H)AM project, a collaboration between Dept. of Celtic & Gaelic @uofglasgow.bsky.social & Dept. of Early Irish @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social is slowly coming to an end.
With a smile & a tear, I present the final instalment...
With a smile & a tear, I present the final instalment...
June 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Happens all the time
June 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Happens all the time
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Exciting Early Medieval news! A new inscription of Wittiza, one of the very last Gothic kings of Spain (c. 694-710), has been discovered.
Hallada en Cacín una lápida visigoda con la única inscripción conocida del rey Witiza
El hallazgo epigráfico, descubierto en Cacín, permite a los investigadores afinar la cronología del penúltimo monarca visigodo, cuya figura había permanecido rodeada de sombras hasta ahora.
www.alhama.com
June 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Exciting Early Medieval news! A new inscription of Wittiza, one of the very last Gothic kings of Spain (c. 694-710), has been discovered.
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Cat in a finds tray.
1997.
1997.
May 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Cat in a finds tray.
1997.
1997.
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In the seventh century, it became a thing for women across the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms to wear pieces of old Roman glass framed in gold settings as pendants on necklaces. Top left is a new find recorded this week on @findsorguk.bsky.social with others on PAS & the necklace from Sarre.
April 1, 2025 at 12:21 PM
In the seventh century, it became a thing for women across the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms to wear pieces of old Roman glass framed in gold settings as pendants on necklaces. Top left is a new find recorded this week on @findsorguk.bsky.social with others on PAS & the necklace from Sarre.
March 26, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Five days without being able to check words and facts on Wikipedia and Wiktionary is excruciating
March 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Five days without being able to check words and facts on Wikipedia and Wiktionary is excruciating
My article/note, ‘A Modern Runic Inscription from York’, Apardjón Journal for Scandinavian Studies 3: 56-63 is out now! #runes #runology #modernrunes
Apardjón Journal for Scandinavian Studies is pleased to present its THIRD volume. This volume contains two articles and a note, and is accompanied by five book reviews. We would like to thank all of our authors for contributing to this volume.
t.co/se9xXWQn1z
t.co/se9xXWQn1z
March 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
My article/note, ‘A Modern Runic Inscription from York’, Apardjón Journal for Scandinavian Studies 3: 56-63 is out now! #runes #runology #modernrunes
I have my PhD viva in two weeks. What advice would you give me? 📚 #phdviva #viva #phd #medievalbluesky
March 10, 2025 at 11:22 AM
I have my PhD viva in two weeks. What advice would you give me? 📚 #phdviva #viva #phd #medievalbluesky
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We should just come back to old tested academic traditions. Articles should have titles like "Some More Thoughts on Medieval Kingship" (87 pages), "Merovingian Gaul. A History" (3 pages, no footnotes), and "An Interesting Pendant from Paris" (unknown pagination, published in village-based journal).
February 27, 2025 at 12:40 PM
We should just come back to old tested academic traditions. Articles should have titles like "Some More Thoughts on Medieval Kingship" (87 pages), "Merovingian Gaul. A History" (3 pages, no footnotes), and "An Interesting Pendant from Paris" (unknown pagination, published in village-based journal).
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The last big 'reveal' of the Unwrapping the Galloway Hoard AHRC-funded project: the reading of the long runic inscription. Proud to say I played a small part in cracking it by spotting the two puncts around the final rune. The Hoard has now begun its worid tour! www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Mystery behind Viking-age treasure find in Scotland may finally have been solved
A runic inscription on one of the Galloway hoard’s elaborately decorated arm rings has been deciphered
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2025 at 8:44 AM
The last big 'reveal' of the Unwrapping the Galloway Hoard AHRC-funded project: the reading of the long runic inscription. Proud to say I played a small part in cracking it by spotting the two puncts around the final rune. The Hoard has now begun its worid tour! www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Office vs WFH 👩🏼💻 🐈
February 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Office vs WFH 👩🏼💻 🐈
Ring with runic inscription found in Lincolnshire, now recorded with PAS! Martin and I had the pleasure of viewing this after I saw a picture of the ring on a metal detecting magazine’s website.
finds.org.uk/database/art...
#runes #newfinds #runicinscription
finds.org.uk/database/art...
#runes #newfinds #runicinscription
Record ID: LIN-E70856 - EARLY MEDIEVAL finger ring
Treasure Case 2024 T764
A complete early medieval silver-gilt finger ring with runic dating from the eighth to the tenth century (c. AD 700-1000).
The annular finger ring is
finds.org.uk
January 20, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Ring with runic inscription found in Lincolnshire, now recorded with PAS! Martin and I had the pleasure of viewing this after I saw a picture of the ring on a metal detecting magazine’s website.
finds.org.uk/database/art...
#runes #newfinds #runicinscription
finds.org.uk/database/art...
#runes #newfinds #runicinscription
Short trip to Derby Museum @derbymuseums.bsky.social this weekend. Such a fantastic array of finds, from the prehistoric to the early medieval, all in one room!
January 16, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Short trip to Derby Museum @derbymuseums.bsky.social this weekend. Such a fantastic array of finds, from the prehistoric to the early medieval, all in one room!
I have a new job! I have a short term contract with Research Consulting Ltd, where I’ll be working on a report of research integrity activity and good practice at higher education institutions in the UK. Here’s my from home vs in office set up 😌 #research
January 14, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I have a new job! I have a short term contract with Research Consulting Ltd, where I’ll be working on a report of research integrity activity and good practice at higher education institutions in the UK. Here’s my from home vs in office set up 😌 #research
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Happy 'It's finally cold enough to wear your lopapeysa' to all in the UK who celebrate!
January 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Happy 'It's finally cold enough to wear your lopapeysa' to all in the UK who celebrate!