Medieval links
Watch this audio slideshow on the Parker Library from the BBC; it's a little over four minutes and gives a better look at the manuscript I used in my icon here (Parker 286-the Augustine Gospels), as well as several other manuscripts.
The Roskilde Museum has a little video of a tiny figurine they think represents Odin. I've had this up on my browser for a few days and keep meaning to spend more time puzzling out what the text around the video says, but at this rate I'll never get to it and you'll never get to see the video, so I put it up without fully having read the text. I know one bit says the piece is niello with gilding and inlay. It's about 2 cm high, and they think the birds are Odin's ravens Munin and Hugin (but you can read that without my help anyway).
ETA: Corrections from "Thor" to "Odin" thanks to dudethemath. I need the end of term soooo badly. . . .
The Roskilde Museum has a little video of a tiny figurine they think represents Odin. I've had this up on my browser for a few days and keep meaning to spend more time puzzling out what the text around the video says, but at this rate I'll never get to it and you'll never get to see the video, so I put it up without fully having read the text. I know one bit says the piece is niello with gilding and inlay. It's about 2 cm high, and they think the birds are Odin's ravens Munin and Hugin (but you can read that without my help anyway).
ETA: Corrections from "Thor" to "Odin" thanks to dudethemath. I need the end of term soooo badly. . . .