Omslag van het manuscript in het Stadsarchief van Breda (ARC0287, 144), publiek domein.

DENENSAGE | Vikingen in Breda… of toch niet? Deze week duiken we met dr. Christian Cooijmans (@ccooijmans.bsky.social) in het fascinerende verhaal van en over de ‘Denensage’!

Benieuwd? Deze aflevering is nu overal te beluisteren 🎧! Links ⬇️

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Don't despair if you don't speak Dutch: the research on the 'Dane saga' itself was published in English in Open Access (🔓), along with the first English translation of this brilliant work of premodern imagination 📖

blog.royalhistsoc.org/2025/08/12/d...

www.brepolsonline.net/content/jour...

Thanks, Steffen! ☺️

Don't despair if you don't speak Dutch: the research on the 'Dane saga' itself was published in English in Open Access (🔓), along with the first English translation of this brilliant work of premodern imagination 📖

blog.royalhistsoc.org/2025/08/12/d...

www.brepolsonline.net/content/jour...

Dutch-speaking comrades! Ik was recent weer te gast bij de Middeleeuwen podcast, en sprak daar over de zogeheten 'Denensage' van Breda, een mooi (en soms wat excentriek) product van middeleeuwse verbeelding rondom een lokaal Brabants vikingverleden 🎙️ Veel dank weer aan @timoepping.bsky.social!

Thanks! Missed a digit

Trousers against Tomfoolery.

Temperance trousers

Here's the full papal response (MGH Ep VI, no. 66, chap. LVIII, p. 588):

www.dmgh.de/mgh_epp_6/in...

When Bulgar khan Boris sent Pope Nicholas a list of questions about Christianity in 866, he asked if it was sinful for Christians to wear pants (breeches). Nicholas replied that he couldn't care less, as long as we 'spiritually wear pants' against carnal hijinks (spiritaliter induimur femoralibus) 🩳

Perhaps because an eventual change of design can then still be framed as an ergonomic upgrade in a future hardware release, presenting it not as a bug to be fixed, but a perk worth paying extra for.

A message from the Bluesky status page, noting that 'we are investigating an incident with service in one of our reginos [sic]'

I see the Bluesky team is finally taking an interest in late Carolingian historiography.

I'll see myself out.

A message from the Bluesky status page, noting that 'we are investigating an incident with service in one of our reginos [sic]'

I see the Bluesky team is finally taking an interest in late Carolingian historiography.

I'll see myself out.

The kind of deep understanding of medieval economics that can only be instilled by playing several campaigns of Age of Empires.

The kind of deep understanding of medieval economics that can only be instilled by playing several campaigns of Age of Empires.

I know I say this nearly every year, but with the amount of time precarious academics are *wasting* on job-hunting, interview prep, logistics around moving to new jobs, learning new institutional systems, etc etc., SO much actual work could be getting done. It's such a waste of time and expertise!

The time between fossil fuel crises is just going to keep shrinking, until there's no discrete single "crisis" - just one unbroken prolonged state of global suffering due to fossil fuel unreliability

The best time to ditch fossil fuels was 30 years ago. The second best time is now

Excellent - we did a similar thing in Liverpool a few years ago, and I remember it being well-received. There's really not enough actual information out there for (recent) PhDs looking to publish their work.

A replica stave church with a viking statue in front

Viking statue in front of replica stave church (photo by Michael Gray)

Interior gallery space in the stave church at Epcot

Today's vikingism: the replica of the 12th-century Gol Stave Church, built at the Norwegian pavilion of Epcot Center in Walt Disney World, Florida.

I'd recognise the Arts Building lecture theatres anywhere - sounds like a great event! 🙂

Eldritch Lady Liberty

A sign for the galley shed of Uyeasound (est. 1911), featuring a stylised rendering of a viking ship (based on Gotlandic picture stone examples).

A sign for the galley shed in Scalloway, featuring a viking ship with red and white sails.

Today's vikingism: the Up Helly Aa galley sheds of Shetland. Found in communities across the islands, they act as centres of operations for 'squads' as they prepare for local celebrations of the fire festival, including the construction of a galley that is set aflame as part of the festivities.

The inner end of the Nærøyfjord with surrounding mountainscape, as seen from Gudvangen.

Snowy mountains towering over the main entrance to Gudvangen Viking Valley.

A recreated Viking-Age Scandinavian village setting in Gudvangen.

Exceedingly good-looking surroundings for this weekend's talk in Gudvangen ⛰️ @vikingvalley.bsky.social

"we need kids to get an early start operating machines that are routinely wrong and may try to coax them into suicide and/or psychosis" is a fun education perspective i disagree with actually

A detailed pen drawing of a scene from a saga, featuring two men looking out from a viking ship in rough seas, with other ships in the distance.

Today's vikingism: a pen drawing of a scene from Snorri's Saga of St. Olaf, depicting the titular figure's first voyage with his foster-father Hrani.

Halfdan Egedius (1899). Oslo, Nasjonalmuseet, NG.K&H.B.06256.

ok for entertainment, not great for historical accuracy

Maybe he's using the Scandinavian definition?