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Markus Mindrebø

@markusmindrebo.bsky.social
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Medieval historian | Associate professor, @unistavanger.bsky.social | Gender/politics in Norse kings' sagas | Network scholar | Game thinker | Storyteller | Most at home in the mountains

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
That's a historian at work: wearing big boots, looking confidently at the sources, and sitting on the back of Father Time holding scythe and hour-glass. Yes, we do fly at work. #skystorians
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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 17/09/2026
Good to see @historytoday.com making the case for history in universities.
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Why Does Academic History Matter?
The study of history at UK universities appears to be under existential threat. Should anyone care?
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Jonas Fossli Gjersø @jonasgjerso.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
PPE Forum - bruken av viking-estetikk i dag! 2. nov. 12:15, universitetsbiblioteket UiS. Uttrykk for en inkluderende eller ekskluderende nasjonalisme? På panelet: Markus Eldegard Mindrebø, Institutt for kultur- og språkvitenskap; Ellen Hagen, Arkeologisk museum; og Inger Undheim, Garborgsenteret.
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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
September is the time for treading the grapes. #Medievalcalendar BnF MS Latin 1156B; Horae ad usum romanum; 15th century; f.9r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
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Øystein Hellesøe Brekke @oysteib.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Haakon VIII is the first King of Norway to have two Norwegian born parents since King Magnus the Lawmender, who died in 1280. (Still part of the "immigrant population" though, as the statisticians define it - two foreign born grandparents.)
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Teaching Medieval Women @teachmedwomen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Check out TMW's Natasha Hodgson's (@nrhodgson-hist.bsky.social) article in today's @uk.theconversation.com on the women depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry 👇 theconversation.com/what-three-f... #blueskyhistorians
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What three female figures in the Bayeux tapestry reveal about medieval women
The women of the Bayeux tapestry tell a story as compelling and important as the main depiction of the battle.
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
“If you want research led teaching then at a minimum you have to allow teaching staff time to *read* and incorporate new research” I say every year as I object, again, to a workload model that allows 50mins prep per 1 hour teaching.
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Øystein Hellesøe Brekke @oysteib.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Ein ting som fascinerer meg, er òg dei folka som vaknar opp i 2026 og berre: "Hæ?! Profilerer Noreg seg i utlandet med VIKINGAR??? Kva nymotens påfunn er det?"
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Christopher W. Jones @cwjones.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Either way, LLMs are useless for most humanities research. And I mean, fundamentally, structurally useless. Unfixable. Not the right tool for the job. Like trying to change your car tire with a pair of pliers.
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Markus Mindrebø @markusmindrebo.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Good times, and a fantastic audience!
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Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
#Medieval #football #Norway
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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Maria Danielsen, Knut Ørke og Holger Pötzsch har skrevet et opprop om KI i høyere utdanning som jeg nettopp har signert. Signér du også om du ønsker en mer faglig og kritisk diskusjon av innføring av KI på universiteter og høgskoler! Oppropet skal sendes til Khrono. nettskjema.no/a/602234#/pa...
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Opprop om KI i høyere utdanning - Nettskjema
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Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The Tune ship gets moved this week www.vikingtidsmuseet.no/english/news... #viking #ships
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The Final Viking Ship on the Move - Museum of the Viking Age
23 February will be the starting point for the relocation of the third and final Viking ship, as the Tune Ship sets out on its journey from the former Viking Ship Museum and into the Museum of the Vik...
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Games and stories are imitations of life, ways of playing at life, sometimes ways of learning how to live. Some of the rules may appear both cruel and arbitrary. But if you want to play the game, or live the life, you have to follow them.
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Markus Mindrebø @markusmindrebo.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
A rather beautiful view of the Ullandhaug tower upon returning to the office. Hopefully marking the beginning of a significantly better 2026!
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
Boromir from THE LORD OF THE RINGS, holding The One Ring. He thought he could use it for good, but everything done with the ring turns to evil. He was one of the mightiest warriors of middle earth, and he could not resist its powers. Others even mightier fell to the ring. Do you think you are stronger than them? The One Ring is generative AI.
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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
I do find it interesting trying to explain to people that historians deal in arguments, not in facts. History isn’t a catalogue of dates and names, but what happened around those things, and how we now and those who were alive at the time perceived and responded to those events.
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Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Another beer post for the evening: In 1241, Pope Gregory IX informed Archbishop Sigurd Eindridesson (r.1231-52) that children who are baptised in beer can not be considered to have been properly baptised.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary.
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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Trick or treat? 😈 #Halloween BL Stowe MS 17, f.200r
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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 31/10/2025
The Greenhouse @unistavanger.bsky.social is launching an international Masters Program in Public Environmental Humanities from fall 2026! Taught in English. Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues! Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
What HE managers fail to understand is that in the context of the Humanities, ‘employability’ isn’t teaching coding or carpentry, but skills around writing, presenting, reasoning, evaluation, analysis, research etc. In an 80% service economy, these are the skills that fundamentally matter.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
There is a certain bleakness in finding hope where one expected certainty.
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Jonas Fossli Gjersø @jonasgjerso.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
📅 Save the date! The University of Stavanger, invites you to a symposium entitled: Freedom of Expression in Times of Genocide 🗓 Wed. Nov 12, 5–7:30 pm | Sølvberget, Stavanger & online Speakers include: Sindre Bangstad, Raz Segal, Zoé Samudzi, Maha Abdallah & Martin Shaw More details to follow.
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Markus Mindrebø @markusmindrebo.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Medieval techniques to preserve mental health? Sage advice here (and a wonderfully written post). "Tao seemed forever struggling with the dilemma between living freely but poorly and working in the government but unhappily. Besides resorting to alcohol, Tao dealt with such struggles with poetry."
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The Rise of Poetry Therapy in Eleventh Century China
How did literati manage their mental health in middle period China? Melancholy, depression, and down moods were as common among them as among us today. In the absence of antidepressants and therapists...
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Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
The best slow TV ever. www.nrk.no/kultur/flytt...
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Flyttar Osebergskipet for første gong på 100 år
Noregs mest kjende vikingskip skal no løftast frå det gamle til det nye vikingmuseet. Flyttninga er venta å koste over en halv milliard kroner.
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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 08/09/2025
At my good colleague @markusmindrebo.bsky.social’s book launch at the @unistavanger.bsky.social Library today. Women, Politics, and Social Networks in the Sagas of Norwegian Kings. Congratulations on the book, Markus!
Man standing on stage talkingPowerpoint slide with Norwegian text, kvinner og makt i sagalitteraturen, and picture of a woman with a sword
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Ubisoft @ubisoft.com · 03/09/2025
Step into the heart of Medieval Baghdad—right from your phone. 📜 Uncover rich, immersive history 🦅 Explore 9th century Baghdad 📱 Experience it all for free, anytime, anywhere Launching today for free: the Discovery Tour App – Medieval Baghdad #AssassinsCreed
Scholars, musicians, historians all stand in front of a night sky overlooking Baghdad. Underneath a phone rest. In the center text reads: "Discovery Tour app. A Ubisoft Original. Medieval Baghdad."
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Jenny Cromwell / Papyrus Stories @jennycromwell.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
We have a cover for Ancient Egypt in Video Games! Out either late 2025 or early 2026 - will post a link with contents once it’s up on the DeGruyter website. I’m very excited that this is soon out in the world!
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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
29th August is the feast of the Beheading of John the Baptist. Here Salome is depicted doing a spectacular sword dance! ⚔️ Bodleian Library MS. Auct. D. 2. 6; 'The Littlemore Anselm'; f.166v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
"This book is a must-read for both medievalists and gamers." - @medievalists.bsky.social The Middle Ages in Computer Games by @robehoughton.bsky.social offers the most comprehensive analysis and discussion of medievalist computer games to date. Learn more 👉 buff.ly/XnzZx0z #medievalsky
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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
It’s an unimaginable amount of money. He could have bought two - maybe even three - Warhammer armies.
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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
a university is not for generating profit, it provides cultural enrichment via weird little gremlin people who love visigoths or haikus, and very occasionally a scientist who figures out faster than light travel
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Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
So does that mean it’ll develop crippling depression and a bunch of debt
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Robert Houghton @robehoughton.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
There's another very kind review of The Middle Ages in Computer Games out on @gamevironments.bsky.social from @markusmindrebo.bsky.social. There's also a bunch of important articles on peripheral religions in games in this issue which are well worth a look. doi.org/10.48783/gam...
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Review of Robert Houghton's The Middle Ages in Computer Games: Ludic Approaches to the Medieval and Medievalism (2024) | gamevironments
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Lucy Moloney @lucyelm.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Look even *if* AI could do the job of a historian, I still wouldn’t trust it. My research is on how elites used the past as a political tool and tried to control historic narratives. I wouldn’t trust tech companies and their connections to right wing governments to not rewrite the past.
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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
The Call for Papers for our strand on the Middle Ages in Modern Games for next year's @imc-leeds.bsky.social is now open with the conference theme of 'Temporalities'. Please circulate to any interested parties. Deadline 17 September. Text here: middleagesinmoderngames.net/announcement...
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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Universities messed up by not getting rid of student evaluations after the wave of peer reviewed scholarship about their issues and before evals became a culture war item. This could have been done a decade or more ago and betrays a stunning lack of imagination in capitalist ed sector
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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 31/07/2025
Indeed, there is evidence from randomized controlled trials of large introductory classes, that student course evaluations are negatively correlated with how well students learned the material. maa.org/math-values/...
One study in particular showed that student evaluations are good predictors of learning. But there’s a twist. The correlation between student evaluations and quality of learning is negative. The higher the instructor’s score in the student evaluations, the worse the learning; and the lower the evaluation score, the better the learning. (Feel free to read that again. There is no typo.)
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
If the marketing team is struggling to understand what universities do and are for, they can read this by a former Warwick professor, HoD, research centre founder/director and PVC. 3/3
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To save UK higher education, start talking about knowledge - Research Professional News
Until debate on universities foregrounds their core purposes, their woes will deepen, says Margot Finn
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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
5. ‘We earnestly forbid all heathen practices. Namely the worship of idols, heathen gods, & the sun or the moon, fire or water, springs or stones or any kind of forest trees, or indulgence in witchcraft …’ #law #medieval Can’t help but think did we lose something when we stopped worshipping nature?
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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
The fascinating secular Laws of Cnut were issued after seizing the throne of England. They intended to cement his power and reassure his subjects, largely repeating laws of earlier kings. Full of insights into medieval life. To share with you, I aim to post a law a day in sequence #medievalsky 1/2
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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 15/06/2025
It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.
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Markus Mindrebø @markusmindrebo.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Roderick and I are "speaking" together on Norse medievalism in games!
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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
The third and final day of #MAMG25 is about to begin! Head over to our website to check out the programme, and read two days of great papers, and our first panel for today, Fantasy Medievalism in The Witcher, will start in just 10 minutes at 10am (UTC+1)! middleagesinmoderngames.net/announcement...
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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Our Asynchronous Conference is starting in less than an hour! Come and join us for three days of papers about all aspects of the Middle Ages and Medievalism in games of all sorts!
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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
The sixth Middle Ages in Modern Games Asynchronous Conference on the themes Globalities and Regionalities will take place from 4 to 6 June. The papers (written and video format) will be accessible on our website middleagesinmoderngames.net We hope you can join us!
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Kristel Zilmer @kristelzilmer.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
"After more than 100 years in storage, the original serpent's head from the Oseberg Ship will be displayed to the public for the very first time." New upcoming exhibition at the Museum of Cultural History: www.khm.uio.no/english/news...
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The Serpent's Head Exhibited for the Very First Time - Museum of Cultural History
After more than 100 years in storage, the original serpent's head from the Oseberg Ship will be displayed to the public for the very first time.
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