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💬🌳🏛🖼️📜 Quotes, nature, architecture, art and history about our homeland, Europe.
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Roman marble Figure of a baby Satyr playing with an oversized Theater Mask of Silenus.


* Imperial, ca. 1st c. AD. Private collection. Restorations by Alessandro Algardi, 1628.
Etruscan bronze votive statuette of a winged female demon; probably Vanth. 425 - 400 BCE.

📸 The British Museum
Guðrún Ósvífrsdóttir smiles as Helgi Harðbeinsson wipes his spear clean on her garment. Helgi has killed Bolli, Guðrún's husband, with the spear.

From Vore fædres liv, 1898
A dark crystal ball encased in gold, from the probable burial of the Merovingian Queen Wisigard, who died c.540
Midford Castle, Somerset.
Illustrations from The Fairy Book by Warwick Goble (1913)