A couple of years ago I started visiting runestones on my motorcycle. The first 30 runestones I rode to were all about the viking expedition led by Ingvar the Far Travelled in the year 1041. It’s the event with most runestones raised after it, and there’s also an Icelandic viking saga written about it. The expedition went to the east on rivers down to the Black sea, and it ended disastrously, and most didn’t make it back alive.

I made a video with photos and videos of the runestones I visited.

https://youtu.be/k1wvULWRIoQ

I have since visited over a hundred more runestones, and I’m planning on creating more videos about them someday.

#viking #history #runestones #archaeology #saga

Toddler and I stopped at Ravning, the site of a millennium old viking bridge. There I stepped inside a patch of nettles.

That makes me wonder how prevalent nettles were in viking age Denmark. I'm sure they used them for fabric etc, but would your average Gorm / Gunhild constantly step into nettles?

Maybe a archobotanist (that a thing?) can answer this?

edit: some excellent comments already. And it's palaeobotanist 😉

#history #archeology #viking #denmark

Toddler and I stopped at Ravning, the site of a millennium old viking bridge. There I stepped inside a patch of nettles.

That makes me wonder how prevalent nettles were in viking age Denmark. I'm sure they used them for fabric etc, but would your average Gorm / Gunhild constantly step into nettles?

Maybe a archobotanist (that a thing?) can answer this?

edit: some excellent comments already. And it's palaeobotanist 😉

#history #archeology #viking #denmark