CiaraMay 14

Things you can do in your local urban community garden:

smell the flowers

admire people’s vegetables

have a cup of coffee in the geodome

sit on a bench and enjoy the sea view

follow the progress of the Viking ship that a group of young people are building by hand using 12th-century boat-building techniques

#Aarhus #Viking #Shipbuilding

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The 7.7m-long Gislingebåden from 1100 CE was ‘both the last Viking ship and the first medieval ship’.

A replica is being built at Aarhus harbour by a group of young people using the traditional Nordic clinker boat-building techniques that UNESCO recognises as being part of the 'Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity’.

#AICouldNever

https://vestmuseum.dk/en/holbaek-museum/gislingebaaden-det-sidste-vikingeskib/det-sidste-vikingeskib-historien/

The last Viking ship? - History - Museum Vestsjælland

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Show threadCiaraMay 14
(I’m going to pretend I knew all that already, not that I just had to look it up so I could write the image description. Once again, Alt Text made me look closer at something I saw by chance so that I could find out more)
Show threadCiaraMay 14
I belatedly realise that I banged on about community gardens and flowers and vegetables without giving any context. Which makes little sense if you don't know the site where the Viking boat is being built and what you see when you turn around.
Show threadrisagerMay 14
@CiaraNi Alt texts are nice like that 😊
Show threadCiaraMay 14
@ondekvinde They are indeed 🙂
Show threadStephen DarlingtonMay 14
@CiaraNi Those ships are pretty impressive, but, equally, I can't imagine sailing across the North Sea in one! There's a decent Viking ship museum just outside Oslo that I enjoyed visiting.
Show threadCiaraMay 14
@sdarlington Those sea voyages in those ships are inconceivable to me too!
Show threadJaeMay 14
@CiaraNi There's a similar project going on in Woodbridge, Suffolk, to recreate the ship that was buried at Sutton Hoo. Wonderful to see! https://saxonship.org/the-project/
The Project - The Sutton Hoo Ship's Company

Long long ago, an Anglo-Saxon noble was buried within a 90 foot ship in a mound at Sutton Hoo, just across the river from Woodbridge, in Suffolk. He was almost…

The Sutton Hoo Ship's Company
Show threadCiaraMay 14
@considermycat Very cool! Thanks for the link.
Show threadAnti Faisisteach SaebhiarMay 14
@CiaraNi I'm sure that's CE rather than BCE, eh?
Show threadCiaraMay 14
@xmacdonald Ah yikes - yes! Thanks for catching it - I'll fix it now. Much appreciated!
Show threadJayfloMay 14
@CiaraNi Interesting!
BUT (nit picking I know)
surely the boat was built in about 1100 in the common era (not BCE) - your text
The article linked to also refers to the 1100th century - should be the 1100s or 11th century!
Show threadJayfloMay 14
@CiaraNi Interesting!
BUT (nit picking I know)
surely the boat was built in about 1100 in the common era (not BCE) - your text
The article linked to also refers to the 1100th century - should be the 1100s or 11th century!
Show threadCiaraMay 14
@jayflo I just already fixed the BCE/CE mistake (mine). The article is not mine, I can't do anything about that.
Show threadJayfloMay 14
@CiaraNi Thanks for bringing the article to our attention, and thanks for fixing what you we able to fix!
Show threadCiaraMay 15
@jayflo I belatedly realise that I thought, but didn't say: Thank you! Thanks for alerting me to the BCE/(CE mistake. (One of my favourite things about Mastodon is the edit button, letting us fix something like that.)
Show threadJayfloMay 15
@CiaraNi
You are welcome! The way I type I need the edit button, even after checking posts before sending!
Show threadCiara6d ago
@jayflo I'm the same. Including right now, because I have just noticed that I have typed a random stray ( in the middle of my previous reply for no good reason. I think I will leave it there, to demonstrate my ability to do this consistently.
Show threadJayflo6d ago
@CiaraNi
I hadn't noticed your typo on the first reading, I only see it now after your reply mentions it!
Show threadJTWMay 14
@jayflo @CiaraNi "Vikings of the 1100th Century" sounds like a pretty cool science fiction premise.
Show threadJayfloMay 14
@jtwcornell91
It does!
I wonder if they have found Valhalla by then? 🚀🌠
@CiaraNi
Show threadCiaraMay 15
@jayflo @jtwcornell91 'Vikings of the 1100th Century" - there'd definitely be a lot of fun twists to play with there! Valhalla will almost certainly be solarpunk.
Show threadCiaraMay 15
@jtwcornell91 @jayflo It does! I'd read that book.