New research analyzing evidence of climatological conditions along Rome's middle-Danube limes and their possible impact on settlement and agricultural developments during the 1 - 4th century CE. Bear in mind: the past is prologue. . .
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Reports of the discovery of a 19th-century runestone in northern Ontario have caught the attention of the New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/world/canada/canada-runestone-ontario.html

Sad new this morning from Nova Scotia: RIP, Birgitta Wallace Ferguson.

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Only one, sadly!
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This new online DB from the Swedish National Heritage Board looks like a -very good- resource indeed:

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www.gotlandicpicturestones.se/s/index/page...

Here's news of an upcoming two-day online colloquium sponsored by the Dictionary of Old English. Registration information is available via the webpage that I've linked to below:

epinal-erfurt.artsci.utoronto.ca/index.php/ea...

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Newly published research provides new evidence for a 'mini Ice Age' in the 6th-century CE: granite from Greenland that likely "rafted" on icebergs to Iceland and deposited in a datable layer. Here's a link to the recent article in -Geology-:

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Interesting computer modeling suggests that Bronze-age Norse boats would have been capable of crossing the Skagerrak strait between Denmark and Norway out of sight of land: new research published in PLOS One.

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Publication – Paul Bertrand, « Forger le faux. Les usages de l’écrit au Moyen Âge »

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