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“much ink has been spilled in vain attempts to classify or define norse magic, which overlooks the fact that its practitioners probably never really did so, and therefore neither should we.”
— Mar 01, 2023 01:00AM
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“many of the gotland hoards contain silver arm-rings—sometimes dozens of them—both decorated and completely plain. much work has been done on the economics of such ‘ring money’, a portable form of payment you could both wear and spend.”
— Apr 21, 2023 09:51PM
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“such individuals crossed the borders between people and animals. we do not know how they were really perceived by their contemporaries, but in our terms, they perhaps formed a very special kind of gender.”
— Mar 01, 2023 12:58AM
