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randomname1561 t1_iypa3k4 wrote
Reply to Woman’s name and tiny sketches found in 1,300-year-old medieval text | Old English name, Eadburg, repeatedly scored into manuscript had remained hidden for more than 12 centuries by ArtOak
My theory is that someone taught her how to write her name and she used the book as scratch paper
FasterDoudle t1_iyp98zc wrote
Reply to comment by Aselleus in Woman’s name and tiny sketches found in 1,300-year-old medieval text | Old English name, Eadburg, repeatedly scored into manuscript had remained hidden for more than 12 centuries by ArtOak
This seems by far the most likely
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JesseKavets t1_iyp8twt wrote
Reply to Woman’s name and tiny sketches found in 1,300-year-old medieval text | Old English name, Eadburg, repeatedly scored into manuscript had remained hidden for more than 12 centuries by ArtOak
Well we now know where “talk to the hand” came from.
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Aselleus t1_iyp759e wrote
Reply to comment by VonMillersExpress in Woman’s name and tiny sketches found in 1,300-year-old medieval text | Old English name, Eadburg, repeatedly scored into manuscript had remained hidden for more than 12 centuries by ArtOak
"She was a handsome woman"
Aselleus t1_iyp72jw wrote
Reply to comment by Snoo_73835 in Woman’s name and tiny sketches found in 1,300-year-old medieval text | Old English name, Eadburg, repeatedly scored into manuscript had remained hidden for more than 12 centuries by ArtOak
Or maybe it was a little kid practicing writing their name?
GrandmaPoses t1_iyp62kb wrote
Reply to comment by Aselleus in Woman’s name and tiny sketches found in 1,300-year-old medieval text | Old English name, Eadburg, repeatedly scored into manuscript had remained hidden for more than 12 centuries by ArtOak
Yeah that was the strangest quote.
“We’ve got this drawing of someone with open arms and the other person doesn’t notice them. Then we have the name Eadburg written repeatedly. I think it’s pretty obvious what’s going on here: Eadburg is writing her own name over and over for some unknown reason.”
VonMillersExpress t1_iyp5pn0 wrote
Reply to comment by ByAny in Woman’s name and tiny sketches found in 1,300-year-old medieval text | Old English name, Eadburg, repeatedly scored into manuscript had remained hidden for more than 12 centuries by ArtOak
A sketch of Eadburg saying hell no
Snoo_73835 t1_iyp4rfb wrote
Reply to comment by Aselleus in Woman’s name and tiny sketches found in 1,300-year-old medieval text | Old English name, Eadburg, repeatedly scored into manuscript had remained hidden for more than 12 centuries by ArtOak
I was thinking that. Or it might be she was practicing her writing? But my money is more on the crush thing.
Snoo_73835 t1_iyp4mxe wrote
Reply to Woman’s name and tiny sketches found in 1,300-year-old medieval text | Old English name, Eadburg, repeatedly scored into manuscript had remained hidden for more than 12 centuries by ArtOak
Why I love history and archaeology 😊
ByAny t1_iyp3oxk wrote
Reply to comment by Aselleus in Woman’s name and tiny sketches found in 1,300-year-old medieval text | Old English name, Eadburg, repeatedly scored into manuscript had remained hidden for more than 12 centuries by ArtOak
This was my thought. Someone who was in love with Eadburg.
Averander t1_iyoxduk wrote
Reply to Woman’s name and tiny sketches found in 1,300-year-old medieval text | Old English name, Eadburg, repeatedly scored into manuscript had remained hidden for more than 12 centuries by ArtOak
Just makes you want to know so much more!
Aselleus t1_iyovovj wrote
Reply to Woman’s name and tiny sketches found in 1,300-year-old medieval text | Old English name, Eadburg, repeatedly scored into manuscript had remained hidden for more than 12 centuries by ArtOak
"I don’t know why you would write somebody else’s name so many times like that,"
Well, it looks like someone never had a crush before
spastical-mackerel t1_iyo4cul wrote
Reply to comment by Bentresh in Gold from ancient Troy, Poliochni and Ur had the same origin by IslandChillin
At some point there was the first guy to figure out trade like this. Well by definition the first two guys. What a revelation that must have been
I-Make-Maps91 t1_iynsfua wrote
Reply to comment by Deirdre_Rose in Gold from ancient Troy, Poliochni and Ur had the same origin by IslandChillin
>The Iliad doesn't actually fit the geography or the timeline very well.
Fits it well enough to find at least one city based on the descriptions in the book, and the existence is others is supported by other evidence. It gives accurate names to towns and cities that had but existed for hundreds of years and the clusters of cities mentioned being near each other are, in fact, near each other.
>Also the people in the Iliad are physically bigger than humans, there are talking horses, and gods directly intervening. It is not a historical document.
Don't be obtuse, stories often take inspiration from historical events and then embellish them for entertainment; it's an epic poem not a history book, history didn't exist as a thing to be studied and cared about until Herodotus. No one thinks Achilles was out there fighting a literal river god, but a large conflict between a unified Greece and the city they called Troy some time around the bronze age collapse is highly plausible, given supporting evidence from Hittite and ancient Greek sources.
Deirdre_Rose t1_iynn4xz wrote
Reply to comment by I-Make-Maps91 in Gold from ancient Troy, Poliochni and Ur had the same origin by IslandChillin
The Iliad doesn't actually fit the geography or the timeline very well. Also the people in the Iliad are physically bigger than humans, there are talking horses, and gods directly intervening. It is not a historical document.
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