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🟢 From 985 until sometime in the 1400s, Greenland was the farthest, most isolated outpost of medieval Scandinavian society. 

📝 Article by Brandon M. Bender.
📷 Photos by Brandon M. Bender, Number 57, claire rowland and Algkalv. 

#Greenland #Vikings #VikingAge #Scandinavia #Norse #Medieval #History

Greetings from Greenland!

👑 Emma of Normandy (died 1052), the wife of King Aethelred the Unready from 1002 to 1016 and then the wife of King Cnut from 1017 to 1035, was a dominant player in English politics for nearly 50 years.

📝 Article by Brandon M. Bender. 
🖼️First image by The British Library. 

#History #Royalty

I was at the library and walked past a name that looked familiar. Empires of the Normans by @proflroach.bsky.social has made it all the way to Johnson County, KS.

Check out my article on stories of Norse and Inuit interaction in medieval Greenland: www.epoch-magazine.com/post/memorie...

On this day in 1016, King Aethelred "the Unready" died after ruling England for nearly four decades.

Æthelred II, king of the English, died #OTD in 1016. He laid waste to ‘Cumberland’ in 1000, and in 1002 ordered the deaths of all Danish men within his realm – an event that became known as the St Brice’s Day massacre. #medievalsky

My home state is famously flat, but I traveled to some of the most surprising badlands, rock formations, mesas, and canyons in Kansas.

The book is out, tell your libraries! The contributors bring a whole range of interesting insights into how the history of pre-Norman England was transmitted by later medieval writers. Also available in a reasonably affordable ebook....

Leif Eriksson looking down over Brattahlid, the farmstead in Greenland from which he sailed to discover Vinland (part of modern Canada) in around 1000. Leif is credited with the European discovery of continental North America nearly 500 years before Columbus #greenland #leiferiksson #brattahlid

This is so good

I'm just a boy, reading something written by people with PhD's, hoping the subject at the beginning of this sentence connects with the object at the end of it despite fifty-two intervening clauses.

Optimist: the cup is half full.

Pessimist: the cup is half empty.

Footnote: The CUP Companion to Drinking Vessels (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024).

@bsky.app Tomorrow is the first annual National Indexing Day! Be sure to hire an indexer the next time you write a book. Your readers will thank you!

I was very saddened to hear this afternoon about the passing of Björn Weiler: the kindest friends, most generous of mentors, and most brilliant of scholars. He shall be sorely missed, but his legacy lives on. #RIP

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