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Sunday, December 29, 2024
Amber
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Amber has been a material of desire since antiquity. We know now that it is 40 million-year-old fossilized tree sap, but in ancient times th...
Saturday, December 28, 2024
The Amber Road
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Yesterday mentioned Wulfstan of Hedeby stopping at a place along the Amber Road. The Amber Road was a trade route (part of it shown here) t...
Friday, December 27, 2024
Wulfstan of Hedeby
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Long before the Prussian Crusades of later centuries, Alfred the Great of England sent his emissary, Wulfstan of Hedeby, to Prussia in 890...
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