Doc McCullough
@marginalviking.bsky.social
Erstwhile archaeologist and historian. Musings on Vikings/Norse, Greenland, archaeology of religion, mythology, and magic.
Also on Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@MarginalViking
Also on Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@MarginalViking
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Good day! I am a #medievalist with an MA in #History and a PhD in #Archaeology who specializes in Norse Greenland. I’m here to muse and learn!
The more I think about it, the more I think that NTTD ended the way it did because Barbara Broccoli knew Amazon was going to run the franchise into the ground.
Report: Amazon Is Struggling to Think How to Bring James Bond Back From the Dead
Daniel Craig's permanent exit in 'No Time to Die' is apparently causing issues for the next 'Bond' film.
gizmodo.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:19 AM
The more I think about it, the more I think that NTTD ended the way it did because Barbara Broccoli knew Amazon was going to run the franchise into the ground.
I have never in my life encountered a more bespoke internet meme.
#CalvinAndHobbes #VoynichManuscript #Medievalsky
#CalvinAndHobbes #VoynichManuscript #Medievalsky
November 3, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I have never in my life encountered a more bespoke internet meme.
#CalvinAndHobbes #VoynichManuscript #Medievalsky
#CalvinAndHobbes #VoynichManuscript #Medievalsky
This is delightful.
I like to think that this map of all the regional names for woodlice in the UK could also be a map illustrating the new tribes of humans to be found on the same landmass after The Great Digital Crash and ensuing breakdown of society.
October 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This is delightful.
It is a windy, dark October day, I am listening to some loud Pink Floyd, and the coffee at work is weirdly good today. It ain’t all bad.
#PinkFloyd #Coffee
#PinkFloyd #Coffee
October 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
It is a windy, dark October day, I am listening to some loud Pink Floyd, and the coffee at work is weirdly good today. It ain’t all bad.
#PinkFloyd #Coffee
#PinkFloyd #Coffee
Raise your hand if you are adorable. #CatsOfBluesky #Buttercup
October 11, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Raise your hand if you are adorable. #CatsOfBluesky #Buttercup
For what it is worth, I suspect that the #Vinland Sagas contain some historical memories of actual #Norse exploration in North America, but they also contain numerous tropes of the time and shouldn’t be read as historical accounts. “Where was Vinland?” is probably not the right question.
September 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit.
Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil.
1🧵
#PlaymobilÖtzi
#PlaymobilInfestation
Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil.
1🧵
#PlaymobilÖtzi
#PlaymobilInfestation
September 19, 2025 at 9:18 AM
#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit.
Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil.
1🧵
#PlaymobilÖtzi
#PlaymobilInfestation
Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil.
1🧵
#PlaymobilÖtzi
#PlaymobilInfestation
There’s a meme about one’s #ancestors being disappointed by one’s modern neuroses that I see sometimes.
To be clear: your ancestors would be proud and in absolute awe of your ability to navigate this unprecedentedly stimulating and interconnected world.
#history #showerthoughts
To be clear: your ancestors would be proud and in absolute awe of your ability to navigate this unprecedentedly stimulating and interconnected world.
#history #showerthoughts
September 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
There’s a meme about one’s #ancestors being disappointed by one’s modern neuroses that I see sometimes.
To be clear: your ancestors would be proud and in absolute awe of your ability to navigate this unprecedentedly stimulating and interconnected world.
#history #showerthoughts
To be clear: your ancestors would be proud and in absolute awe of your ability to navigate this unprecedentedly stimulating and interconnected world.
#history #showerthoughts
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At a breakneck speed of 0.008 knots (or 25cm/min), the Oseberg ship is once again on the move today, for the first time in almost a century.
The Relocation of the Oseberg Ship Is Underway
- Museum of the Viking Age
Finally, the day has come for Norway's most spectacular moving project: The Oseberg Ship is entering the new museum building. This article will be updated regularly throughout the day.
www.vikingtidsmuseet.no
September 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
At a breakneck speed of 0.008 knots (or 25cm/min), the Oseberg ship is once again on the move today, for the first time in almost a century.
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Night sky on northern Minnesota's Gunflint Trail.
#photography #landscape #landscapephotography #nightsky #milkyway #minnesota #reflection
#photography #landscape #landscapephotography #nightsky #milkyway #minnesota #reflection
September 1, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Night sky on northern Minnesota's Gunflint Trail.
#photography #landscape #landscapephotography #nightsky #milkyway #minnesota #reflection
#photography #landscape #landscapephotography #nightsky #milkyway #minnesota #reflection
Sometimes I wonder what became of that teenage couple I saw making out in the railroad bridge somewhere in Pennsylvania while on a road trip in like 1994.
I hope they made it.
I hope they made it.
August 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Sometimes I wonder what became of that teenage couple I saw making out in the railroad bridge somewhere in Pennsylvania while on a road trip in like 1994.
I hope they made it.
I hope they made it.
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Looking forward to reading this! Evidence for smaller kingdoms within Pictland is often neglected in favour of a narrative that treats the whole region as one political entity. Nice to see @alexharvv.bsky.social bringing in some balance.
www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Little-Kingd...
With the 9th draft approved, that's a wrap on my next book: LITTLE KINGDOMS: AN A-Z OF EARLY MEDIEVAL BRITAIN, releasing on the 30th of November 2025
To celebrate, currently the price has been lowered to £17.50 for preorders via my publisher's website
With the 9th draft approved, that's a wrap on my next book: LITTLE KINGDOMS: AN A-Z OF EARLY MEDIEVAL BRITAIN, releasing on the 30th of November 2025
To celebrate, currently the price has been lowered to £17.50 for preorders via my publisher's website
August 20, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Looking forward to reading this! Evidence for smaller kingdoms within Pictland is often neglected in favour of a narrative that treats the whole region as one political entity. Nice to see @alexharvv.bsky.social bringing in some balance.
Context for how/when/where I grew up:
There was an active debate about if Paula Cole’s “Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?” was sarcastic or not.
There was an active debate about if Paula Cole’s “Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?” was sarcastic or not.
August 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Context for how/when/where I grew up:
There was an active debate about if Paula Cole’s “Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?” was sarcastic or not.
There was an active debate about if Paula Cole’s “Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?” was sarcastic or not.
Great post!
We've been looking at little amulets (and could-be amulets) for our last few Viking Camps #FindsFridays, so I thought I'd take a risk and continue the theme today.
Why's it taking a risk? Well, even though it's fascinating, today's find isn't very much to look at! This tiny fragment is TDB2353. /1
Why's it taking a risk? Well, even though it's fascinating, today's find isn't very much to look at! This tiny fragment is TDB2353. /1
August 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Great post!
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📰 'Youths buried in Anglo-Saxon cemeteries carried West African DNA'
#AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @science.org @spoke32.bsky.social
www.science.org/content/arti...
#AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @science.org @spoke32.bsky.social
www.science.org/content/arti...
Youths buried in Anglo-Saxon cemeteries carried West African DNA
Despite bearing remarkably far-flung genetic origins, a girl and young man were buried just like their peers
www.science.org
August 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
📰 'Youths buried in Anglo-Saxon cemeteries carried West African DNA'
#AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @science.org @spoke32.bsky.social
www.science.org/content/arti...
#AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @science.org @spoke32.bsky.social
www.science.org/content/arti...
Increase a band
Red Floyd
Red Floyd
Increase a band
Cathedral Roan
Cathedral Roan
Increase a band
100,000 Maniacs
100,000 Maniacs
August 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Increase a band
Red Floyd
Red Floyd
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Beach bodies are OUT. Bog bodies are IN. We just wanna rot.
July 31, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Beach bodies are OUT. Bog bodies are IN. We just wanna rot.
For scale and also for fun I had my friend stand anonymously next to “Thorkell’s Cairn” in #Greenland in a nod to Aage Roussell’s Sandnes photograph from 80 years earlier.
We thought that someone 80 years later asking “who the hell is that guy?” was pretty funny. Still do, really!
#Archaeology
We thought that someone 80 years later asking “who the hell is that guy?” was pretty funny. Still do, really!
#Archaeology
July 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
For scale and also for fun I had my friend stand anonymously next to “Thorkell’s Cairn” in #Greenland in a nod to Aage Roussell’s Sandnes photograph from 80 years earlier.
We thought that someone 80 years later asking “who the hell is that guy?” was pretty funny. Still do, really!
#Archaeology
We thought that someone 80 years later asking “who the hell is that guy?” was pretty funny. Still do, really!
#Archaeology
The guy who taught me the expression “ask forgiveness, not permission” got fired from a Renaissance festival for firing a gun in the air in the middle of a crowd. #truestory
July 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
The guy who taught me the expression “ask forgiveness, not permission” got fired from a Renaissance festival for firing a gun in the air in the middle of a crowd. #truestory
While it’s not a bad idea to finish #gradschool before you have #children, you also won’t get a drawing of you and your three year old as #Vikings that way.
July 28, 2025 at 3:38 PM
While it’s not a bad idea to finish #gradschool before you have #children, you also won’t get a drawing of you and your three year old as #Vikings that way.
One upside to leaving #academia- my studies tended to give me a kind of “spooky” feeling that was difficult to articulate in a scientific way. Now that I’m not expected to publish, I can just enjoy the *frisson* of it. #altacademia #archaeology #history
July 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
One upside to leaving #academia- my studies tended to give me a kind of “spooky” feeling that was difficult to articulate in a scientific way. Now that I’m not expected to publish, I can just enjoy the *frisson* of it. #altacademia #archaeology #history
I would sprint full speed into that thing and nobody would ever see me again.
All the art in my Etsy shop is currently on sale, including this drawing of the beautiful ancient tomb in Brittany known as Ty-ar-Boudiged ('House of the Fairies'), which featured in Wendy Mewes' book 'Brittany: Stone Stories'. #TombTuesday
Find original artwork from just £20 here: shorturl.at/HDzSI
Find original artwork from just £20 here: shorturl.at/HDzSI
July 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I would sprint full speed into that thing and nobody would ever see me again.