Nasjonalbiblioteket, for en fantastisk institusjon! Satser på å få tid å bidra litt her jeg også. Savner fortsatt den ukentlige fredagsutfordringen da NB la ut et knippe bilder fra ukjente steder og ba publikum om hjelp.

Det er fredag! Da spanderer vi et lite eventyr som Jørgen Moe omtalte som "Eventyret er forskjellig og meget humoristisk, men lader sig ikke gjenfortelle" (gjett hvorfor). Det er en variant av "Mannen som skulle stelle hjemme", skrevet ned i Hardanger i 1846. Moes eget manuskript gjengitt her:

En arkiv-anbefaling! Svenska Litteratursällskapet i Finland har finfine digitaliserte samlinger av folkekultur, og det kanskje aller fineste er Maximilian Stejskals fotosamling av folkelige styrkeprøver og leker. 1/x

This manuscript by Anselmus Faust, dated 1612, is the oldest surviving European manual on bookbinding. Written in Latin & Dutch, it was created for the St Bernard's Abbey near Antwerp. What makes it especially unique is its rare dos à dos binding: 2 books bound back-to-back, sharing a single spine.

For de som skal følge resultatene til mdg utover kvelden, en liten bruksanvisning: - Tidligere stortingsvalg har valgdirektoratet laga en offisiell prognose basert på innkomne forhåndsstemmer og tidlig opptalte valgtingsstemmer, men det gjør de ikke i år.

Today: at @unibergen.bsky.social for the SAMLA workshop on Digital Archives & AI Tools!

Second day of the SAMLA.no workshop: Sanita Reinsone discussing the mapping shared interests and collaboration direction with a digital focus #digitalhumanities

In an ethnographic study of youth political organizations, one of my PhD students found that the primary driver of engagement wasn't concern about particular issues but rather the chance to do something fun together with friends (eg, make posters for rallies, or go to meetings with free food).

Norwegian home invasion.

Good news - they must have received a new shipment of badminton birdies as many sets of badminton were played #OTD in 1945... also Japan announced its surrender. #VJDay

Slightly diminish a band: h-uh

Det er ikke sånn at gutter bare magisk har blitt skeptiske til likestilling. Det er store krefter i sving som jobber knallhardt for reversering av likestilling.

🎶 Jens Jens Jens Jens 🎶

Kjekt at ein politikar tør å seie dette, endå kjekkare at det er ein politikar det er vanskeleg for dei å ignorere

An abomination. An affront to free speech and an acute threat to the consensus on terrorism www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

May I also add to this thread of early modern images of happy student life?

“If you just go back indoors, now, that’ll be the end of it…”

those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this

53. In your first draft, over-reference rather than under-reference. Always err on the side of caution, and you can edit the references if they seem excessive in later drafts.

18. I still prefer print outs or photocopies of primary documents rather than using two screens when writing

17. The edited collection is an underrated publication method and is particularly useful for communicating historical research trends

13. Historians could do a lot worse than read film theory to understand about narrative history and the construction of history as a process

Anlegget, når første fase er utbygd, vil bli operasjonelt styrt fra et helt annet sted enn Narvik. I beste fall vil lokale få kontrakt på enkelt vedlikeholdsarbeid, slikt som å skifte ut defekte disker i RAID-systemer. In verste fall vil slike folk bli flydd inn fra Sveits. Arbeidsplasser?

Minner alle på dette intervjuet med Erna under korona. Ikke stem høyresiden til høst.

When she was just 26 Florence Merriam wrote the first guide to birding with binoculars in 1889. And she slipped in this incredible feminist gem:

Om fakelore! En 🧵. Faget mitt er folklore - bokstavelig talt folkets (dvs alles) lærdom eller tradisjonsoverført kultur. Tradering, altså prosessen med å overføre noe, skjer på mange måter, handlingsbårent, i skrift og tale, på og av nett. 1/

Aw Harald of Norway, 88, marking Norwegian sovereignty on the Bear Island 🥹 This what actual kings do: they chill all their lives in purely representative functions but inconvenience themselves to faraway windy islands with crutches at the age of 88 when it’s needed #nokings

Handy tip from an 18th century medical guidebook – always remember to prepare your medicinal woodlice in the same manner as your bees

The amazing detail in this story is this lad's neighbour frantically whistling to try and draw the ship's attention to the dangerous local hazard known as [checks notes] Norway. If it hadn't noticed houses are generally stand on vessels a bit of whistling probably ain't going to do it, fella.

Jeg fatter ikke hvordan NRK skal kunne forsvare dette.

En av Norges rikeste sponser altså dannelsen av et nytt, ytterliggående politisk parti, og betaler for spredning av prorussisk propaganda på t-banen i Oslo. Sånn omsettes økonomisk makt i politisk makt.

Dette er gull

Right. Well. Interesting Eurovision this year! Some songs i'll listen to again and we finish with the most blatant vote rigging since Russia got booted. (The "vote in support" thing would have placed Ukraine higher if it was that. Israel was bot farming) Will the organizers FINALLY ban them? Nah.

Kanskje du spør i angst udekket, åpen

"We will explore more, find more and extract more" Norway announces its largest ever expansion of fossil fuel extraction. We don't get to claim we're climate heroes while we aggressively and almost anxiously seek to increase supply of the stuff that causes it.

Early exit polls suggest the new pope did particularly well with male voters aged 45-79.

“The pope will be from Chicago” sounds like an 1880s Republican’s dire prediction for if we don’t stop Irish immigration

It can often be difficult to tell Sheep (right) and Goats (left) apart, but to the trained eye there's an obvious difference: While both commit Crimes, only Goats are aware that their actions are wrong, and are thus capable of Sin.

Kungliga bibliotekets katalogiseringssystem av skillingtryck appreciation blupp

Gi mig de bitre og steile, som ikke har frykt i sitt blikk. Gi mig de gudløse stolte, som ikke har trang til mystikk, men dristig vil skape en himmel her efter sin egen skikk. Rudolf Nilsen (På gjensyn, 1926) #1mai #førstemai

An excellent thread from an excellent scholar. I will add two cents by emphasising that we Westerners struggle to understand the reality of medieval labour because 1) most of us have no contact with farm work, & 2) those of us who do are used to mechanised agriculture. (1/n)

Oh, it is this time of year again: did people in medieval Europe have a different relationship with work and free time than we do? Yes, of course. Did they just lie around half of the year doing nothing and enjoying their church-prescribed holidays and basked in their free time? No. 1/

26.4.1940 var Gudvangen, heilt sør i Sognefjorden, eit slags norsk Mini-Dunkirk, då alle militære frå Voss kom dit for å bli evakuert over fjorden. Tusen mann kjem seg over, mykje utstyr står igjen.

On the day of his passing please take a minute to read Pope Francis’s Laudato si’ statement on climate and environment. “We are faced not with two separate crises, one environmental and the other social,” the Pope writes, “but rather with one complex crisis which is both social and environmental.”

I went to the Tate Modern yesterday. In the Rothko room with all the Serious Art Connoisseurs there was a ~5 year old kid who walked up to each painting, pointed at it and shouted 'RECTANGLE' at each one in turn, then left the room.

«Kunder» av Lånekassen. Var de kunder av helsevesenet også? Og av skolen? Kanskje også av rettssystemet når de blir større? Man er ikke kunder av offentlige velferdstilbud. Lånekassen er ikke en kommersiell bank.

Heyyyyyy do I know anybody working on Norway's maritime history or maritime heritage on here? What's going on in Norwegian maritime history circles? #maritimehistory

Det er naturligvis helt legitimt å kritisere de norske landbrukstollene, men det er viktig at man også gir et mer fullstendig bilde av hva alternativet er enn «billigere mat og bedre utvalg». Spørsmålet handler i bunn og grunn om vi skal produsere mat i Norge eller kjøpe det av andre. Tråd: 1/6