Doggerland
Ancient Britain was a peninsula until a tsunami flooded its land-links to Europe some 8,000 years ago.
The coastline and landscape of what would become modern Britain began to emerge at the end of the last Ice Age around 10,000 years ago.
What had been a cold, dry tundra on the north-western edge of Europe grew warmer and wetter as the ice caps melted. The Irish Sea, North Sea and the Channel were all dry land, albeit land slowly being submerged as sea levels rose.
But it wasn't until 6,100BC that Britain broke free of mainland Europe for good, during the Mesolithic period - the Middle Stone Age.
It is thought that landslides in Norway - the Storegga Slides - triggered one of the biggest tsunamis ever recorded on Earth when a landlocked sea in the Norwegian trench burst its banks.
The water struck the north-east of Britain with such force it travelled 25 miles (40km) inland, turning low-lying plains into what is now the North Sea, and marshlands to the south into the Channel. Britain became an island nation.
At the time it was home to a fragile and scattered population of about 5,000 hunter-gatherers, descended from the early humans who had followed migrating herds of mammoth and reindeer onto the jagged peninsula.
"The waves would have been maybe as much as 10m (33ft) high," says geologist David Smith, of Oxford University. "Anyone standing out on the mud flats at that time would have been dismembered. The speed [of the water] was just so great."
At Montrose, on the north-east coast of what is now Scotland, Smith has uncovered signs of this long-ago natural disaster. A layer of ancient sand runs through what should be banks of continuous clay - sand washed inland by the inundation.
Relics of these pre-island times are being recovered from under the sea off the Isle of Wight, dating from when the Solent was dry land.
Grooved timbers preserved by the saltwater are thought to be the remains of 8,000-year-old log boats, and point to the site once being a sizable boat-building yard.
• Doggerland
Doggerland (also called Dogger Littoral) was an area of land, now submerged beneath the southern North Sea, that connected Great Britain to continental Europe. It was flooded by the rising sea levels around 6500–6200 BCE. Geological surveys have suggested that it stretched from what is now the east coast of Great Britain to what are now the Netherlands, the western coast of Germany and the peninsula of Jutland. It was probably a rich habitat with human habitation in the Mesolithic period, although rising sea levels gradually reduced it to low-lying islands before its final submergence, possibly following a tsunami caused by the Storegga Slide.
Doggerland was named after the Dogger Bank, which in turn was named after 17th-century Dutch fishing boats called doggers.
The archaeological potential of the area was first identified in the early 20th century, and interest intensified in 1931 when a fishing trawler operating east of the Wash dragged up a barbed antler point that was subsequently dated to a time when the area was tundra.
Vessels have since dragged up remains of mammoths, lions and other animals, and a few prehistoric tools and weapons.
As of 2020 international teams are continuing a two-year investigation into the submerged landscape of Doggerland using new and traditional archaeogeophysics techniques, computer simulation and molecular biology.
Evidence gathered allows study of past environments, ecological change and human transition from hunter-gatherer to farming communities.
https://t.me/TheFrithstead
Ancient Britain was a peninsula until a tsunami flooded its land-links to Europe some 8,000 years ago.
The coastline and landscape of what would become modern Britain began to emerge at the end of the last Ice Age around 10,000 years ago.
What had been a cold, dry tundra on the north-western edge of Europe grew warmer and wetter as the ice caps melted. The Irish Sea, North Sea and the Channel were all dry land, albeit land slowly being submerged as sea levels rose.
But it wasn't until 6,100BC that Britain broke free of mainland Europe for good, during the Mesolithic period - the Middle Stone Age.
It is thought that landslides in Norway - the Storegga Slides - triggered one of the biggest tsunamis ever recorded on Earth when a landlocked sea in the Norwegian trench burst its banks.
The water struck the north-east of Britain with such force it travelled 25 miles (40km) inland, turning low-lying plains into what is now the North Sea, and marshlands to the south into the Channel. Britain became an island nation.
At the time it was home to a fragile and scattered population of about 5,000 hunter-gatherers, descended from the early humans who had followed migrating herds of mammoth and reindeer onto the jagged peninsula.
"The waves would have been maybe as much as 10m (33ft) high," says geologist David Smith, of Oxford University. "Anyone standing out on the mud flats at that time would have been dismembered. The speed [of the water] was just so great."
At Montrose, on the north-east coast of what is now Scotland, Smith has uncovered signs of this long-ago natural disaster. A layer of ancient sand runs through what should be banks of continuous clay - sand washed inland by the inundation.
Relics of these pre-island times are being recovered from under the sea off the Isle of Wight, dating from when the Solent was dry land.
Grooved timbers preserved by the saltwater are thought to be the remains of 8,000-year-old log boats, and point to the site once being a sizable boat-building yard.
• Doggerland
Doggerland (also called Dogger Littoral) was an area of land, now submerged beneath the southern North Sea, that connected Great Britain to continental Europe. It was flooded by the rising sea levels around 6500–6200 BCE. Geological surveys have suggested that it stretched from what is now the east coast of Great Britain to what are now the Netherlands, the western coast of Germany and the peninsula of Jutland. It was probably a rich habitat with human habitation in the Mesolithic period, although rising sea levels gradually reduced it to low-lying islands before its final submergence, possibly following a tsunami caused by the Storegga Slide.
Doggerland was named after the Dogger Bank, which in turn was named after 17th-century Dutch fishing boats called doggers.
The archaeological potential of the area was first identified in the early 20th century, and interest intensified in 1931 when a fishing trawler operating east of the Wash dragged up a barbed antler point that was subsequently dated to a time when the area was tundra.
Vessels have since dragged up remains of mammoths, lions and other animals, and a few prehistoric tools and weapons.
As of 2020 international teams are continuing a two-year investigation into the submerged landscape of Doggerland using new and traditional archaeogeophysics techniques, computer simulation and molecular biology.
Evidence gathered allows study of past environments, ecological change and human transition from hunter-gatherer to farming communities.
https://t.me/TheFrithstead
Honor
The state of honor likewise determines the rise and fall of the family. The man who gains renown, wins not only the advantages that go with the esteem of his fellows — he augments the blessing, the power of growth and fertility both in his cattle and in his fields; he lays the foundation for new kinsmen in the family: the women will bear more easily and more often, the children be more hopeful and forward.
― Vilhelm Grønbech, The Culture of the Teutons: Volume 1
https://t.me/TheFrithstead
The state of honor likewise determines the rise and fall of the family. The man who gains renown, wins not only the advantages that go with the esteem of his fellows — he augments the blessing, the power of growth and fertility both in his cattle and in his fields; he lays the foundation for new kinsmen in the family: the women will bear more easily and more often, the children be more hopeful and forward.
― Vilhelm Grønbech, The Culture of the Teutons: Volume 1
https://t.me/TheFrithstead
Forwarded from TruthGraphs
Survival Gardening: The Backyard Homestead
With raised bed gardens, high density planting, and some planning small yards can be converted to generate food for your family.
Quarter Acre can harvest:
1400 eggs
2000 pounds of vegetables
280 pounds of pork
50 pounds of wheat
60 pounds of fruit
75 pounds of nuts
Source: The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You need on Just a Quarter Acre.
With raised bed gardens, high density planting, and some planning small yards can be converted to generate food for your family.
Quarter Acre can harvest:
1400 eggs
2000 pounds of vegetables
280 pounds of pork
50 pounds of wheat
60 pounds of fruit
75 pounds of nuts
Source: The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You need on Just a Quarter Acre.
This is us, our spirit, our soul, who we are; the intangible force that we feel, ever present, always there - that which drives us forward to create and conquer. 👇🏻👇🏻
Forwarded from Morgoth's Review
Take a second to imagine life as an early American pioneer. Before you lies an unknown landmass so vast France could sink into it many times over. Every stream, mountain and woodland is new, like in a fantasy novel. Above you an endless rolling sky and beneath you a horse, paltry rations and a canteen of water.
It's easy to mock ''freedom'' as a political doctrine, but it's also a spiritual form too for European men.
It's easy to mock ''freedom'' as a political doctrine, but it's also a spiritual form too for European men.
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Luck
That luck and progress are dependent on frith and honour was a maxim borne out by experience, but the sentence could with equal truth be read conversely: Luck is the condition that determines frith and honour.
― Vilhelm Grønbech, The Culture of the Teutons: Volume 1
https://t.me/TheFrithstead
That luck and progress are dependent on frith and honour was a maxim borne out by experience, but the sentence could with equal truth be read conversely: Luck is the condition that determines frith and honour.
― Vilhelm Grønbech, The Culture of the Teutons: Volume 1
https://t.me/TheFrithstead
Forwarded from ȺηтнαѕGαтє
Typically in this society rural people have been looked down on. It's not surprising socially we've been programmed to aspire to be anything but rural people. Hillbillies, rednecks, hicks, whatever you wanna call them. People with chickens and goats and a garden, who work on their own cars and their homes, help their neighbors when they need it, do odd jobs when they can. Country bumbkins, woodsmen, yokels.. Call them what you want, but they will be the ones who come to the rescue.. If more people understood the value of just being down home folk people they'd realize we wouldn't have been able to be put in this mess.
Luck
To form a happy couple, the bride and bridegroom need luck. Hrut, an Icelander of unusual qualities and high extraction, and also a man of great insight, was late in marrying; one day his friends proposed a match with a lady of good family, called Unn. Hrut entered upon the plan, but rather hesitatingly, saying: “I do not know whether we two will have luck together.” Hrut did not know at the time, that he would fall under the spell of an imperious woman, but on a visit to Norway he found favour with the Queen Mother, and their intimacy embittered the subsequent conjugal life of Hrut and Unn and finally wrecked their marriage.
― Vilhelm Grønbech, The Culture of the Teutons: Volume 1
(Moral of the story - don’t be unwise; strive to make good decisions)
https://t.me/TheFrithstead
To form a happy couple, the bride and bridegroom need luck. Hrut, an Icelander of unusual qualities and high extraction, and also a man of great insight, was late in marrying; one day his friends proposed a match with a lady of good family, called Unn. Hrut entered upon the plan, but rather hesitatingly, saying: “I do not know whether we two will have luck together.” Hrut did not know at the time, that he would fall under the spell of an imperious woman, but on a visit to Norway he found favour with the Queen Mother, and their intimacy embittered the subsequent conjugal life of Hrut and Unn and finally wrecked their marriage.
― Vilhelm Grønbech, The Culture of the Teutons: Volume 1
(Moral of the story - don’t be unwise; strive to make good decisions)
https://t.me/TheFrithstead