10月になりました。10月26日はアルフレッド王の祝日（命日）です！

It took 10 years of work to prepare a Viking longship for a trip no longer than a football field. How it got to that spot goes back even further — over a millennium.

It's #InternationalTrafficLightDay.

Today I start my research trip sailing down the River Seine from Paris to Honfleur (via a few stops) in a reconstruction of the Klåstad cargo ship built in 998. It’s the penultimate stage in the ship’s journey from Rome to London throughout the summer. I’ll post updates as we go #Saga25 #MedievalSky

ちょっとおふざけ気味の子供向けの本らしいけど、ヴァイキングものなのでメモがわりにRT☺＞

定期的にアルフレッド王成分を反芻しないと、魂の潤いが枯渇しますので...同じ話を何度も繰り返します...

RP＞アルフレッド大王が「異教徒軍（デイン／ヴァイキング）」に追われてゲリラ拠点にしていたアセルニー も「島」と言われていて、今は小山（Burrow Mump）と高台があるだけだけど、元々は湿地体で、島のようになっていたようですね。 近代に灌漑で農地になったとかで、今も洪水が起きやすいらしく、一昨年あたりも洪水が起きてたはず。 Burrow Mumpに残る修道院跡（左写真）は15～17世紀頃？のもの、高台の上に建つアルフレッドモニュメントは19世紀のもの。

中世ヨーロッパ以前に建立された修道院の記録を調べていると、現在の地図上では内陸地にあるのに昔の記録には「大きな島があった」と書かれてあったことに疑問を抱いていました。 その修道院の記録を改めて見ると、どうやら気候の変化で洪水が発生することがたびたびあったとのことで、とても納得しました。 イギリスは頻繁に大雨が降る地域で、以前滞在したイングランド・テュークスベリーでも昨年は水かさが増す日が多かったようです。 現地を歩いていた時には気づかなかったのですが、町の中央にあるテュークスベリー修道院は少し小高い丘の上に立っています。昔は修道院に駆けこんで水難を逃れていたのでしょう。

Marching north on a campaign against the Scots, Æthelstan, king of the English, granted Amounderness to the Church of York #OTD in 934. The hinterland of modern Blackpool, it may have been a bribe to win the support of Wulfstan I, archbishop of York. 📸Athelstan Museum #medievalsky

The York Helmet was discovered by mechanical digger operator Andy Shaw during work at 16-22 Coppergate #OTD in 1982. The C8th Anglian helmet is made of iron and copper alloy, and bears a Latin Christian inscription mentioning Oshere, presumably its owner. 📸York Museums Trust #medievalsky

Ceolfrith was appointed abbot of Wiremutha-Gyruum (Wearmouth-Jarrow) #OTD in 688. He remained in office until 716, when he resigned to go on pilgrimage to Rome. The Codex Amiatinus was produced during his abbacy. Hwaetberht succeeded him. 📸Remi Mathis #medievalsky

「司教の日記」を更新しました。教皇選挙について、書けることだけを書きました。 bishopkikuchi.cocolog-nifty.com/diary/2025/0...

アルフレッド大王が「ポスターボーイ」とか「ピンナップ」とか言われてる記事。ウォンティジの像を中心に。（Eメール登録で無料で読めます。購読プランが色々表示されますが右上のSkipで記事に戻る） "Wantage had tapped into a national desire to make Alfred great again" ☺ www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fi...

Switzerland’s Abbey of Saint Gall has agreed to lend 17 manuscripts to the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin for the exhibition 'Words on the Wave: Ireland and St Gallen in Early Medieval Europe'

The Battle of Edington, fought in May 878 CE, was a decisive moment in #EnglishHistory.  King #AlfredtheGreat, who was once forced to flee to the treacherous #Somerset marshes, defeated the #Viking leader Guthrum in battle. Read the full article here: https://whe.to/ci/2-2691-en/

Easter bunny resting 🐰🐰 A #Roman samian ware bowl depicting a rabbit eating dandelion. Found in Eschenz/Switzerland. Photo: AATG, Daniel Steiner

Wrong, wrong, and wrong. Just some basic fact-checking would be nice. Anyway, I wrote about Eostre here: florencehrs.substack.com/p/eostre-pag...

On 20 May, @kingshistory.bsky.social is hosting an afternoon commemoration of the life, work and legacy of Professor Dame Jinty Nelson FBA. Booking for this event is now available bit.ly/4cwX1ZW. Jinty was the first female President of the Royal Historical Society (2000-04) #skystorians 1/2

ウィンチェスター大聖堂のパーム・サンデー行進、ロバのダーモットさんが昨年に続いて今年も登板☺ www.instagram.com/p/DIOneKCRB88/

アサクリヴァルハラのハイクロスとの比較＞RT

Replica of the C10th Muiredach's Cross in Ulster Museum. Large!

Taylor Swift as Barnsley Museums objects. A THREAD ✨ Yes we decided to transfer our most popular thread from that other website.... Ceramic plate of Dutch origin @taylorswifteras.bsky.social @ts-updates.swifties.social @popbase.tv @popculture2000s.bsky.social @popcrave.com

1043年4月3日、ウィンチェスター寺院でエドワード証聖王（懺悔王）がイングランド王として戴冠する。柔弱な性格でその治世は不安定だったが、実質的にイングランドを統治した最後のアングロ・サクソン王として理想化され、後に列聖された。

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 ⚔️The Last Viking: Warrior of the New Rome⚔️ Harald Hardrada rose to command the elite Varangian Guard, fighting for the glory of Europe's greatest empire. But honour gave way to intrigue - after a forbidden love affair, Harald was soon imprisoned, doing battle with a giant serpent….

Pictures from an upcoming show about William the Bastards conquest of Anglo-Saxon England in 1066 and I am continually shocked that producers and designers seem to believe Early Medieval nobility dressed like homeless vagrants. These are supposed to be William and Harold Godwinson.

ブリューゲルではなくってタルコフスキー、「鏡」より。

I want a 3D printer. Nay, I MUST HAVE a 3D printer! www.instagram.com/bimbus_print...

Judith, countess of Flanders, died #OTD in 1094. She was widowed when Tostig, earl of Northumbria, died at the Battle of Stamford Bridge. Symeon of Durham says she 'loved St Cuthbert even more than did her husband'. One of Judith's gospel-books 📸The Morgan Library & Museum

We're trying to find a Roman Cornish mosaic for St Piran's day. Admittedly a big ask. 😬 This is the best we could do: from the entrance to a deli in Penzance. It's not Roman, but we don't care because it adorbs. 😍😍

Instagramを開いたアルフレッド王がトップに居て、疲れ吹っ飛ぶ☺ www.instagram.com/p/DG0eXPVoIlf/

TODAY IN GOVT #WFH: Took the afternoon off to visit York. Here is an ancient viking Starbucks 📜☕✨

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...

ロープの作り方メモ。（メモ？） 1996年にスペインのカタラユーで撮影された動画が回ってきたので。 youtu.be/sfaLUi-qtnA?...

Feb 8: Feast of Ælfflæd (†714), abbess of Streanæshalch (Whitby). Her father Oswiu, king of the Northumbrians, vowed to consecrate her in infancy to the religious life if he defeated Penda, pagan king of the Mercians. This he did. Cuthbert’s girdle cured her of paralysis.

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Some things never change! A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to: “I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂 Dated to about 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was found in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 MOLA #EpigraphyTuesday #Archaeology

古代ローマの3000×3000ぐらいの巨大モザイク画が日本に展示されてるとは知らなんだ。しかも触れるという話だからなお凄い

Lindisfarne, Northumberland. Lindisfarnae c.700. 'Domain at (a stream called) Lindis', from a derivative of Old Irish *lind 'lake' + ferann 'land'. Also called Holy Island. Source: Oxford Dictionary of British #PlaceNames. Its Brittonic name was Medcaut. 📸DigVentures

ジャネット・ネルソン教授 (Dame Janet "Jinty" Nelson) が去年10月に亡くなっていたのを存じ上げなかった😢＞RT

The Royal Historical Society is very pleased to be here, from today, @royalhistsoc.bsky.social We look forward to engaging with you to support and promote History and historians together. The Society is led by Prof Lucy Noakes, who began her Presidency of the RHS on 22 November royalhistsoc.org

アルフレッド大王の聖地を巡礼した旅行の備忘録マンガのリンクをこちらにも貼っておきます。 note.com/alfred_scrib...

忘れた頃にログインして使うBluesky😅 Twitterの方がまだ情報量が多いけれど、追々こちらのTLも充実させていきたいところ。

Coming to paperback next month: The Vikings in the Hebrides by Niall Sharples.

Ealdred, archbishop of York, consecrated Harold Godwineson king of the English at Westminster Abbey, London, #OTD in 1066. Despite having a hand-fast wife, the king later wed Ealdgyth, sister of Eadwine and Morcar, earls of Mercia and Northumbria respectively. 📸British Museum

Due out next month. Life in the Viking Great Army: Raiders, Traders, and Settlers by Dawn M. Hadley and Julian D. Richards. And yes, I've ordered mine already 😃

The public BETA for the Skald Data Editor (SkaDE) is now LIVE for you to test🧙🧙‍♂️ Read all about it in today's devlog. Oh, and there is even a contest with hundreds of dollars worth of prizes SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? Start creating content NOW!⚔️ www.skaldrpg.com/2024/12/skad...

The famous Late Anglo-Saxon tower at St Mary, Sompting, Sussex - England’s only example of a “Rhenish Helm”

A lot of people will tell you we're a Roman Palace. We are in fact a moon-sized super-weapon capable of destroying a planet. (Better with sound).