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💬🌳🏛🖼️📜 Quotes, nature, architecture, art and history about our homeland, Europe.
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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)
Painting murals in an abandoned villa in Tuscany, Italy
Crown of Sancho IV the Brave, king of Castile and Leon. Early 13th c.

The crown consists of eight rectangular metalwork plates or links joined by hinges and bordered by a simple molding. Each segment is surmounted by a castle.

It is completed with four sapphires and four cameos, two Roman and two Staufen.

📸 Displayed at Toledo Cathedral, Spain