are there any better sources in Norwegian?

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Been reading a history of the Vikings. Did not know a huge amount of their wealth was slaves. And they believed fervently in magic, the best women were sorceresses.

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Did they find it in a hole or a place called Hole?

Yes. This is good to include in the TIL. Those names certainly fit. I wonder if further excavation might fund cremation burials nearby if it's a prominent family name. Be much easier to find if multiple family members were cremated than if it was just one lady named ideberga.

It's worth noting that's about 1000 years earlier than most sources of Old Norse writing, and even contemporary or slightly older than the earliest written Germanic language that we have comprehensive material on, Gothic (which we just have the Gothic bible, from around the 3rd - 4th century AD). That means the language written on it was likely proto-norse or proto-north-germanic, languages we can only guess at reconstructing.

I’m sure HistoryChibi knows

> Eight of the runes on the front face of the stone may be spelling out the name of a woman, according to Kristel Zelmers analysis. “The text possibly refers to a woman called Idibera and the inscription could mean 'For Idibera',” says Professor Zilmer. Other possibilities are that idiberug is the rendering of a name such as Idibergu or Idiberga, or perhaps the kin name Idiberung.

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The first non-indigenous person to set foot on what is now Texas Arizona and New Mexico was a black. Muslim slave called Esteban de Dorantes.

"Thurkill went to Italy and brought back souvenirs"

Would be worth a small giggle if it's just "Thorsson was here, it was cold and windy"

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But what does it say?!?!?! I hope it's like those other wooden notes they found that were preserved that was a wife yelling at her husband to come home from the tavern.

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Fancy rock with writing on it found in ground, gotcha!

Ronald Weasley... It's, " Fus Ro DAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

Wartime Britain 1939-45 by Juliet Gardiner is good for the British home front. Can't think of anything for the British military perspective.

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Which state that claimed to be the succesor of Rome had the most illegitemate claim?

Who was the last European king to lead his army into battle?

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