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A nearly complete 1st century BCE carnyx found in 2004 at Tintignac, France (the one in the left picture, with a reconstruction in the right).

Fashioned as a snarling boar, the carnyx was a war horn used by the Iron Age Celts between c. 200 BCE and c. 200 CE

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“Fear not death for the hour of your doom is set and none may escape it.“

~ Völsunga Saga

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Undine, Arthur Rackham (1909)

In european mythology, the ondines are water sprites who could be mortal if she married a human, but if her husband was unfaithful, she had to go back to the sea.

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Forwarded from Worth Fighting For

Good morning 👍

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Fionn mac Cumhaill fighting Aillen, illustration by Beatrice Elvery in Violet Russell’s Heroes of the Dawn (1914)

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"The Rape of Polyxena" in the Loggia dei Lanzi of Florence, Italy

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