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kristervasshus.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary scholar of (North) Germanic languages, runes, archaeology, religion, biology and cultural history. Currently working as disseminator at Sagnlandet Lejre, and freelancing research. Environmentalist. He, him, jotun.
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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.

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

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

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

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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

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Exciting news from the Isle of Man. Iron Age spoons are incredibly rare; this is only the 28th example that we know of & implies trading of these special ritual tools west from Britain. Congratulations to the finder, landowner and Manx National Heritage 👏 manxnationalheritage.im/news/iron-ag...

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Writing yard-runes. Hafrōz You"ll never guess what that means.* *irony may occur – many of you will surely guess, some of you already knows #runes #futhark #ironage #livingthepast #culturalcontinuity

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One of the details that we didn't touch upon in this analysis of the Hole runestone-fragments, is the relationship between the gravefield and the surrounding landscape. Partly because it would be an enormous undertaking. One part of such an undertaking involves placenames. #placenames #runes 1/7

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Sitting at a table in public, my 7-yearold was eavesdropping the ladies next to us who were speaking French. After a while, the child asks "are they Franks"? Franks... I said yes.

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«På fem år har antalet som läser samiska modersmål minskat från drygt 800 till 500 elever [i Sverige].» www.svt.se/nyheter/sapm...

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Keltiske språk har ein del til felles med germanske språk, og mykje tyder på at språkgruppene har hatt tett fellesskap på fleire tidspunkt. Men at danske dialektar har eit keltisk ord for grevling, er kanskje ikkje det mest opplagte. Så korfor er det sånn? sprakmeg.blogspot.com/2018/02/korf...

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Flere gamle ord: vidje. Vidjer ble laget ved å ta nye greinskudd, vanligvis fra bjørk, og vri dem, før emnet ble hengt opp til tørk. Det ble et slags kort, stivt tau som kunne brukes litt som ståltråd. De var så viktige at mange steder ble man først regnet som voksen når man kunne vri en vidje

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We present some results from our long-term work on the earliest #runestone found in an archaeologically datable context #runology: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Thrilled to have been part of this incredible excavation! The discovery is fascinating and represents truly unique material. Contributing to this article alongside @steinarsol.bsky.social , @kristelzilmer.bsky.social, @kristervasshus.bsky.social, and many others was a genuinely fun experience

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A new article presents the context and dating frames of the runestone fragments found at Hole in Norway. It is an interesting puzzle with many exciting details, one of them being the possible early dating of the runic script itself. doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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#NationalHedgehogDay

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Our sheep paper was covered by RTE @news.rte.ie , which is nice to see! www.rte.ie/news/dublin/...

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Bone and antler was the common medium for #Mesolithic #Art, usually red/roe deer, wild boar & aurochs. But there are a few exotic exceptions: Surprised zoologists declared that this dagger was made from the bill of a #Swordfish. There is archaeological consensus that its owner must have had style🏺⚔️🐟

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Writing sea-runes

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Jackson Crawford and I had a fun conversation about sexual slang in Old Norse, and even touched upon the traces of swearing. This topic is a horn of plenty. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmkH...

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My piece is out! A history of archaeological scholarship on the potential for matrilineal societies in Iron Age Europe.

submitted 31 days ago • 17 comments

Please share! Job opportunity as postdoc in linguistics or similar at C-LaBL in Tromsø with me or one of my highly experienced colleagues! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/310362

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One of the biggest open questions in prehistory is where and how the Indo-European languages originated and spread. A newish paper sheds some very interesting light on this issue, so here's a thread on it. IE languages are spoken by nearly half of humanity. Map shows the homelands of the main ones

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