I will be talking online this sunday, about Pictish horses and wee baldy drunken men, and ponies from god knows where! If this sounds like your jam, Tickets available here!
Dr Rena Maguire
@StillJustRena
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Archaeologist. IRC funded Research Fellow in UCD. Irish Iron Age specialist, Metal a.f.. Necrohippomancer.Ain't nothin' like me - except me (Raccoon, 2014). My views/typos ahoy. Like pokemon? So do I! She/her/thon wan
@RasherMurphy do you want a code for the Blue celestial realms where we all are hanging out? Let me know on email!
Viking Dublin Dogs 🐕 🐺🐴Our crowdfunder closes tonight, all the #Viking #dogs #wolves #horses are about to start a new journey. If you can spare any cash, please support us to find out more about these, their lives and roles over a 1000 years ago. Thx please RT. https://www.vikingdublindogs.ie/category/all-products
Here's our interview with Shindig Podcast for those who don't have Spotify ( like me ).@vikingdublindogs @ruthcarden and Mary Valante
Tom Horne is from Rubicon, and Luke from Red River Archapeology and they do wonders on outreach
( if I'm distracted it's because my creaky blind terrier was being a total asshat in the background )
Viking Dublin Dogs: Deciphering Dogs, Wolves and Horses in the Viking Age
#AWOOOO NEW Podcast Alert!!
🆕🎙️ Shindig - An Archaeology Podcast❗️From Red River Archaeology Group
Viking Dogs, Wolves and Horses: Drs. @Ruthfcarden, @StillJustRena & Mary Valante of @VikingDublinDogs chat about their 🧪🔬📜 work analyzing what made 🐕🐺🐎 so important to the peoples of early medieval Northern Europe! https://spotify.link/Q6LtcTLBfCb On Apple too
2. This part of the project will involve wonderful accrued knowledge of @StillJustRena and @Ruthfcarden & more analysis, and is a cross-over project with Ruth’s #IrishCaveBones. Both Ruth & Rena are funded by the Irish Research Council & wonderful opportunity to collaborate on horses through time! Please re blog both posts, thanks 🙏
7. One of my own ‘hobbey horses’ is the quest for the Irish Hobbey,My friend Miriam is also looking for the lost Gallowa’ pony. If we are right ( and yes, we probably are ) theyre the same animal in different places. I wonder how their bones and everything else, will compare with the hardy wee Viking era beasties found in Dublin’s waterfront?
It’s all to play for – and that’s what the crowdfunding is all about. It’s your journey, on your chosen Viking pony, dog at side through the past too!
It’s all to play for – and that’s what the crowdfunding is all about. It’s your journey, on your chosen Viking pony, dog at side through the past too!
6. Romano-British horse and rider figurines often show horses in natural gaits, although the teensy specimen from Norton Disney, Lincolnshire, shows a horse moving its legs laterally, suggesting the presence of pacing animals in the 1st century AD . If this small figurine shows a Hobbey-type animal long before the medieval period, then pacing animals were present in early equine types or breeds, before the medieval Irish Hobbey and before the Viking ponies.
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Recent research tried to say this pace originated in medieval England, but there have been lots of equids recorded in history who do this, from as far back as the Roman period and maybe even before . Pliny the Elder (Naturalis Historia 8.72) noted Iberian ponies which could perform the fifth gait of pacing or ambling.
Recent research tried to say this pace originated in medieval England, but there have been lots of equids recorded in history who do this, from as far back as the Roman period and maybe even before . Pliny the Elder (Naturalis Historia 8.72) noted Iberian ponies which could perform the fifth gait of pacing or ambling.
4. They also do the fifth pace, called the tolt and it’s a phenomenal thing to experience, as it can be as fast as a gallop, but smoother than a canter. This was the preferred pace of Viking riders ( who were actually rather good – the lorinery– that’s the metal stuff like bits and buckles and martingales – was pretty humane when compared to Roman equivalents!).
Here's a video of it in full tilt, or tolt ;)
https://youtu.be/-7rWeWymJDw
Here's a video of it in full tilt, or tolt ;)
https://youtu.be/-7rWeWymJDw
