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Jonathan Herold

@jonathan-r-herold.bsky.social
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Historian (focusing on various aspects of European/North Atlantic developments during the Early Middle Ages), university instructor, dog lover and film buff.

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Jonathan Herold @jonathan-r-herold.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Details for the first 100 coins from the Mørstadskatten hoard have been published to the University of Oslo Cultural History Museum's Unimus database. Here's the announcement: www.khm.uio.no/om/aktuelt/a...
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Her er de første 100 myntene fra Mørstadskatten - Kulturhistorisk museum
De første 100 myntene fra Norges største myntfunn fra vikingtid, er nå publisert i Kulturhistorisk museums database, Unimus. Grundig dokumentasjon, foto og konservering skal sikre at kunnskapen om ska...
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Jonathan Herold @jonathan-r-herold.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Reposting, 'cuz this is pretty exciting! bsky.app/profile/kris...
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Jonathan Herold @jonathan-r-herold.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
A recent post from the BBC website: something fun for all my fellow runatics to read. www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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'Do you love me?': The Viking messages unearthed on Sweden's rune stones
Runic inscriptions from the Viking Age still turn up in Sweden 1,000 years after they were written – revealing fascinating stories of love, loss and epic battles.
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Jonathan Herold @jonathan-r-herold.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
New research analyzing evidence of climatological conditions along Rome's middle-Danube limes and their possible impact on settlement and agricultural developments during the 1 - 4th century CE. Bear in mind: the past is prologue. . . #medievalsky journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Climate variability and Germanic settlement dynamics in the Middle Danube region during the Roman Period (1st–4th Century CE)
Climatic variability inevitably impacted past societies and acted as a driver of change. The combined analyses of the archaeological record and written documentary sources, together with high-resoluti...
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Jonathan Herold @jonathan-r-herold.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Reports of the discovery of a 19th-century runestone in northern Ontario have caught the attention of the New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/world/canada/canada-runestone-ontario.html
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Jonathan Herold @jonathan-r-herold.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Sad new this morning from Nova Scotia: RIP, Birgitta Wallace Ferguson. #medievalsky www.dignitymemorial.com/en-ca/obitua...
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Birgitta Ferguson Obituary - Halifax, NS
Celebrate the life of Birgitta Ferguson, leave a kind word or memory and get funeral service information care of JA Snow Funeral Home.
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Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Only one, sadly! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Missing Herefordshire Viking treasure coin unearthed in Croydon - BBC News
The coin, believed to belong to the Herefordshire Hoard, has been found for sale in Croydon, London.
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Jonathan Herold @jonathan-r-herold.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
This new online DB from the Swedish National Heritage Board looks like a -very good- resource indeed: #medievalists www.gotlandicpicturestones.se/s/index/page...
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Startpage · Gotlandic Picture Stones - The Online Edition · Gotlands Museum
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Jonathan Herold @jonathan-r-herold.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Here's news of an upcoming two-day online colloquium sponsored by the Dictionary of Old English. Registration information is available via the webpage that I've linked to below: epinal-erfurt.artsci.utoronto.ca/index.php/ea... #medievalists #medievalsky
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Early Latin-Old English Glossaries Colloquium (May 30-31, 2025)
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Jonathan Herold @jonathan-r-herold.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Newly published research provides new evidence for a 'mini Ice Age' in the 6th-century CE: granite from Greenland that likely "rafted" on icebergs to Iceland and deposited in a datable layer. Here's a link to the recent article in -Geology-: pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/...
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Greenlandic debris in Iceland likely tied to Bond event 1 ice rafting in the Dark Ages | Geology | GeoScienceWorld
We report the discovery of exotic igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary cobbles in raised beach deposits near Breiðavík, northern Iceland. These deposits
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Jonathan Herold @jonathan-r-herold.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Interesting computer modeling suggests that Bronze-age Norse boats would have been capable of crossing the Skagerrak strait between Denmark and Norway out of sight of land: new research published in PLOS One. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Seafaring and navigation in the Nordic Bronze Age: The application of an ocean voyage tool and boat performance data for comparing direct open water crossings with sheltered coastal routes
This study presents an “ocean voyaging tool” that combines predicted vessel performance data with agent-based simulations. This tool offers a new way to assess navigation and seafaring abilities in pr...
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Agenda des médiévistes @rmblf.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Publication – Paul Bertrand, « Forger le faux. Les usages de l’écrit au Moyen Âge » rmblf.be/2025/01/31/p...
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Publication – Paul Bertrand, « Forger le faux. Les usages de l’écrit au Moyen Âge »
Si les concepts de fake news et post-vérité semblent définir notre monde contemporain, le Moyen Âge n’était-il pas déjà l’empire du faux ? De la fausse donation de Constantin aux évangiles apocryph…
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