I’m going with more cursed and less contagion, because they took weapons, but no other valuables. Or else they just really pissed their neighbours off.
The skull filled with sheep’s teeth is interesting. Might be a clue as to what the neighbours were pissed off about.
ETA: if it’s so cursed to this day, who built the fence right across it? Look at the first photo in the article, or just on Google Earth. Somebody has been there in the last 1,500 years.
Ooh, if you go on Google Earth and look up Sandby Borg, there are four Street View spots that link to panoramic photos of the archaeology dig, as people were working on it.
ya, some kind of charm against the witchcraft, maybe like putting a stake thru the heart of a vampire. Or, wasn’t there something about putting a coin in a vampire’s mouth?
It doesn’t read like any power struggle I ever heard about. You kill the guys in charge and their heirs, tops. Not their entire neighborhood. This reads like fear, the early medieval version of “nuke it from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.”
Vampires don’t show up this early, and not in Sweden.
Teeth in mouth… sounds like they’re saying the person is like a sheep, or is a sheep. So, docile, not very smart, and not worth as much as a human. I found a PDF written by a Swedish academic (can’t copy the link on my phone) which points it that while there are several references to goats in pagan Norse mythology, most notably the named goats which pull Thor’s chariot, sheep are only vaguely mentioned.
Or maybe they were just the person’s dentures.
No, not a vampire, just the idea that adding a charm to the offending body neutralizes whichever supernatural power they attributed to said body.
Or not. But, just assuming my larger conjecture happens to be right, why raid and then seemingly immediately abandon a fort, but take time out to add sheep teeth to a body unless you felt it was necessary to the mission?
But the qualities of a sheep you point out does read like the teeth were meant as an insult to the vanquished. That would seem to back up the power struggle hypothesis in the linked article.
If the skull had no human teeth left in it, possible. Although you’d think they’d find remains of wood or wire or something in that case.
There’s a bog in Denmark where someone killed an entire warband and sacrificed their treasures. So it’s not necessarily “no time to loot.”
Science!
A nativist kind of science that turned it’s back in things like “education.”
After Hörbiger’s death in 1931, the followers of WEL came to the conclusion that given the changing political situation in Germany, aligning the idea with National Socialism would eventually lead to its acceptance; WEL had already been heavily and successfully promoted as the “German antithesis” of the “Jewish” theory of relativity in the late 1920s. And so the movement became more and more pro-Nazi, with WEL supporters saying things like: “Our Nordic ancestors grew strong in ice and snow; belief in the Cosmic Ice is consequently the natural heritage of Nordic Man.”, “Just as it needed a child of Austrian culture – Hitler! – to put the Jewish politicians in their place, so it needed an Austrian to cleanse the world of Jewish science.”, and “the Führer, by his very life, has proved how much a so-called ‘amateur’ can be superior to self-styled professionals; it needed another ‘amateur’ to give us a complete understanding of the Universe.”
The current parallels are chilling.
It should at least get a gold star for being more stupid than he Flat Earth “theory.”
I have a feeling Trump would declare the Earth is flat, if he ever thought about such things.
…Or that’s what the aliens want you to think.
a asteroid near neptune shows evidence of once having liquid water, indicating that it may have migrated outwards during the “grand tack”. The Grand Tack hypothesis posits that Jupiter formed close to the sun, and migrated outwards towards its present position.
This video predates Juno, but it explains the Grand Tack hypothesis and its rival the Nice model.
Archeologists are still debating the significance of the inscription that read kree jaffa.
