#ancient scandinavia

[lalunahollow]

This is very close to my home, along with many other such sites, but this one of my favourite hiking destinations, as I can walk litterly in a circle and get back to where I started and see at least three burial sites along the way.

This site dates back to the stone age and is absolutely breathtaking, and the clearing itself is extremely calm and serene

[inc0rrectmyths]

The Prof. told us to make a thesis on ancient civilizations. He said and I quote "Include as many civilizations as you can, the more the merrier! " bitch I know you aren't even gonna read the entire thesis.

So anyways, I chose the ancient Indian, Greek, Egyptian and Scandinavian civilizations cuz I actually have a pretty good knowledge on them. And today I went to submit my work along with gang. (who also chose the same four civilizations as me, we did it together). And that professor had the audacity to tell us that we need to include more civilizations. BITCH WE LITERALLY WROTE MORE THAN 100 PAGES ON FOUR HUGE ASS ANCIENT COUNTRIES AND CULTURES. I fucking swear to god, college is making me hate history and I'm gonna actually kill myself if I ever lose my passion for the subject cuz of college.

[ancientstuff]

Absolutely fascinating. A wealth of new information about the period and ships and naval warfare.

[ancientorigins]

The discovery of a pre-Viking ship burial in Scandinavia challenges the notion that Vikings were the pioneers of this fascinating tradition. The ancient ship burial was discovered within a mound on Norway’s island of Leka.

[sapphire-of-midgard]

some more gow text posts before midterm season takes me

[roran01]

Anyways have some concept art of ancients in the new style

Personally I like how Rome come out

[thegothicviking]

Looking at silver rune pendants at etsy (not gonna buy just yet...just looking) and a seller/shop added this note at the bottom of the "about item" section;

Tusen takk/a thousand times thank you!

My Norwegian heart just wept a little from joy and grattitude!🥺❤

[elbiotipo]

One thing that seems increasingly important to me is that cultures interacted a lot with each other in the past, probably way more than we give them credit for. Yes, in general, for a peasant life was in their village with occassional trips to town. But then there are also Roman merchants who travelled to India, medieval European communities in Persia and China (and their own Christian churches), Jewish cultures in India and Ethiopia, and the ethnobotanical and cultural evidence in favor of Mesoamerican-South American contact piles up so high it's hard to dismiss it. People weren't isolated, they knew what was going on in the rest of the world, even as rumors.

[thesilicontribesman]

'The Loki Stone', Norse Influenced Decorated Stone, Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria

10th Century CE Anglo-Danish Cross Shaft Depicting Loki Chained.

[sunnixsunshine]

I am literally falling asleep sitting up, take this mama Scandinavia and baby Sweden while I pass the fuck out ✌️

[norsesuggestions]

while alexander the great was doing his "try to conquer all of asia ALL of it!" nonsense:

people in bronze age scandinavia were banging two rocks togheter to make another stone knife

And i am just saying, life in bronze age scandinavia sounds hella more pleasant than whatever alexander was doing. Just saying!

[smultronviol]

I saw your tags on the Bronze Age post and yeah I agree wholeheartedly. I even have a tattoo based on the style of petroglyph trees. I could go on and on about the BA site that I worked on last year

Afsfsgd i didnt see this ask until now but yes!!!! I fucking love petroglyphs so much <333

Also, please tell me about petroglyph trees, because i don't think my local ones (swedish west coast, Tanum area) ever feature trees? They were made by a seafaring people (pre-viking) so theres a TON of boats, and a lot of people (sometimes with weapons)

Also lots of animals, and this kind of plow which is my favorite lol

Also theres some other symbols which i dont think we know for sure what they are (the circle with a cross in it appears a lot, separate too, and theres lots of little round circles sometimes). They are often in clusters, which were probably worked on for thousands of years

But i'd love to hear about the petroglyphs of other cultures? I googled petroglyph trees and they look really cool! Its really interesting to see how different kinds of motifs were important to different ancient cultures? Hhhh i just love petroglyphs, the fact that people THOUSANDS of years ago painstakingly carved what was important to them and we can still? See it???

[ancientstuff]

Really, this article could be subtitled "why study seasons are so very important".

[ancientorigins]

Vikings are often seen as heathen marauders mercilessly targeting Christian churches and killing defenceless #monks. But this is only part of their story. The Vikings played a key role in spreading Christianity too.

[naumovskidusan]

"Ancient viking warrior Norse Mythology Powerful words of wisdom courage strength and bravery" by Olivera Pavlovic Naumovski on INPRNT

[apersonwholikeslotus]

out of all the Scandia oc's mine seems to be the only one who is older than Germania.