Wolf or hound? Trancks spotted in Vingsted in Denmark, fairly close to a recent sighting of wolf.

A very interesting talk for you this morning with @kristervasshus.bsky.social about the possible entomological etymology of some difficult names we encounter in early runic inscriptions and in later Norse literature too. youtu.be/39_uVHStoXk

Proud that our article on the Hole rune‑stone, currently the earliest archaeologically dated, was among the 20 most‑read articles of 2025! Many thanks to @steinarsol.bsky.social @kristelzilmer.bsky.social @kristervasshus.bsky.social, and other co-authors

Of all the sacred ponds I took a dip in last year, Odensjön (The Sea of Odin) in Skåne was definitely on top two. The small lake is situated in between steep non-active volcanic hills and cliffs, filled with both natural and cultural history. Would do it again.

Hvor er Sápmi? Hva er Sápmi? Hva er Sápmis høyeste fjell og største innsjø og så videre? Dette og mye mer får du kanskje i alle fall delvis svar på i den nye Store Norske Leksikon-artikkelen om, vel, den handler ikke om Paraguay. snl.no/S%C3%A1pmi

📰 Bird remains from monumental 'great houses' in Chaco canyon, New Mexico suggest Puebloan communities kept parrots and macaws for ceremonial purposes, possibly linked to their vocal mimicry 🦜 🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via @archaeologynews.bsky.social archaeologymag.com/2025/12/anci...

Det er svart fredag, dagen me minnest svartedauden. "Þat var kyn sottarinnar at menn lifdu eige meirr en eitt dægr edr tuo. med hordum stinga. eftir þat sætte at blod spyiu ok for þar ondin med sinn vegh. af þessi sott saladizst Arni erkebyskop. ok allir korsbrædr i Nidarose... 1/3

Eg kjenner ein 8-åring som har ein naturblogg som gir plass til djupgåande nørderi og fagkunne. Vedkommande øver seg på å bli naturfotograf, og det blir jo naturveilederen i meg riktig glad for. Så ta ein kikk på koss faktastoff i barnehøyde kan sjå ut. naturskjold.blogspot.com

Forskare har funnit tusentals år gamla varglämningar på Stora Karlsö, en isolerad ö i Östersjön och en plats dit djuren sannolikt bara kunde ha förts av människor. Gråvargar kan ha hanterats eller kontrollerats redan av förhistoriska samhällen. svenskhistoria.se/forntida-var... #svhist

The hǫrgr at Sagnlandet Lejre also looks good in snow. I recently read Eldar Heide's book on hǫrgr, and perhaps this conjecture of a cult-site is not THAT far off from something that might have been called a hǫrgr. Heide's book is available open access: www.scup.com/doi/book/10....

A bilingual Dano-Norwegian/northern Sámi catechism from 1728, afaik the first printed book in Northern Sámi

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

In Sagnlandet Lejre we have this huge wooden recreation of a small silver figurine standing in front of the reconstructed mead-hall from 8th century Lejre. Looks alright in a light snowfall.

What a redwing (Turdus iliacus) looked like to one roman artist some 2000 years ago.

I ei førelesing om den norske språksituasjonen om dialektmangfald, snakkar han 12 norske dialektar, i tillegg til eit mindre utval av svenske og danske dialektar. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIIV...

Norwegian: Leirgauk 'clay cockoo' English: Okarina 'little goose' Danish: Pip-i-røv-fugl 'peep-in-the-arse-bird'

The perhaps most commonly used Norwegian word for 'reality' is "virkelighet", which literally translates to 'worklyness'.

Happy Moinween! 🎃

Norwegian language is løvely. Take the word "pappskalle" in example. It literally translates to 'cardboard-skull', but it is used as a word meaning 'idiot'.

Sometimes I take detours just to stop by an interesting piece of history. This summer I passed the Kalleby-stone. The exact meaning of the inscription is somewhat debated. It says "Þrawijan haitinaz was".

Når noko heilt moderne stikk seg så djupt ned i folkeoldet at du må hella ut ein tår for å føla deg sikker på at du kjem deg heilskinna heim. Då er det godt.

Breaking news from Iceland: Finally there seems to be a consensus forming among the people of Iceland on how to pronounce and spell the Icelandic word for "hot dog". Wether it is pulsa or pylsa has been hotly debated for decades, but new research indicates that the majority now call it "pylsa".

Ny stipendstilling i nordisk ved Universitetet i Bergen. www.jobbnorge.no/nn-no/ledige...

You knowe the coole thynge about Gen A.I.? Aye, me neither.

Strandurunōʀ skar-eka 'I cut beach-runes'

@kristervasshus.bsky.social Eg gløymde dette litt, men no ser eg at artikkelen vår om runefunna frå Svingerud, som kom ut seint i 2023, også har vorte fritt tilgjengeleg hos NOWELE. Det skjedde kanskje alt tidlegare under våren. www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

Together with @kristervasshus.bsky.social we also have an additional article that provides further runological and linguistic evaluations, now available Open Access: www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

Summer-slacking.

When children know stuff about Scandinavia.

Kjære zooarkeologar, kva dyr kjem denne knokkelen frå? www.instagram.com/lejremuseum/...

Helios Hyperion! Hailagu sōlu!

Når kona har vore på feltarbeid på Bornholm og køyrt øve Sverige på veg heim, og veit nøyaktig kva gåve ho skal gjera husbonden glad med.

Vener i Uppsala, eg håpar dokker har det fint!

Skvallerkål blei innført til Skandinavia som grønsak ein gong i romersk jernalder. Berre i tilfelle nokon lurte på kven som har skulda.

Oh, Denmark. Always so explicit. "Do you wash hands after having been to the loo? Otherwise this [handshake image] becomes this [that other image]"

After having gone through runic inscriptions from around the 700s, we have settled on using a transitional fuþark in our mead-hall in Sagnlandet Lejre.

Uheldigvis jobber eg på ein arbeidsplass der eg skal spreia kunnskap og fakta, så det der med aprilsnarr blir litt uglesett. Til gjengjeld kan eg oppfordra andre til å lura omverda trill rundt! sprakmeg.blogspot.com/2018/03/apri...

Let's just adopt this idea everywhere.

My trip to work in the morning is pretty nice.

Yesterday we had a little workshop on gold foil art for the upcoming season at Sagnlandet Lejre.

Kjære zooarkeologar, kva dyr kjem denne knokkelen frå? www.instagram.com/lejremuseum/...

Meld deg på dette spennande forlaupet om RUNER på folkeuniversitetet. Opent for alle. www.fukbh.dk/program/hist...

Our research has reconstructed the areas ecologically suitable for Neanderthal occupation in Europe between 90 and 50 kyr BP. We have shown that some of these areas have remained constant, others have changed in extent, and others have disappeared. We compared the evolution of these areas over time

Å spela av høg lyd på elektroniske einingar på f.eks. tog og buss, er like ille som å sjå ei gravid dame måtta stå på bussen utan å tilby setet ditt til henne.

Ledig stilling som doktorgradsstipendiat i arkeologi ved UiB. www.jobbnorge.no/nn-no/ledige...

#MosaicMonday An old favourite 👀🤩 #Roman mosaic of water #birds uncovered in Trier (#Germany). Dated back to 4th century AD. #Archaeology #art #History

Stor større størst *God gødre gøst *Ond øndre ønst Små smerre smest *Bat betre best *Bra brerre brest

The word "shaman" has taken a long path to get to us. Starting with Sanskrit श्रमण (śramaṇa) -> Pali samaṇa -> Tocharian B ṣamāne -> Evenki шама̄н (shaman). And then Russian borrowed it from Evenki. German then borrowed it from Russian as Schamane. And finally English borrowed it as shaman