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The Golden Horns of Gallehus were two horns made of sheet gold, discovered in Gallehus, north of Møgeltønder in Southern Jutland, Denmark. [1] The horns dated to the early 5th century, i.e. the beginning of the Germanic Iron Age. The horns were found in 1639 and in 1734, respectively, at locations only some 15–20 metres apart. [1]
Hlewagast, the son of Holt, was a maker of drinking horns whose name is preserved for posterity because of the runic inscription identifying him, an inscription on a horn made ca. 400. The inscription reads, "ek hlewagastiR holtijaR horna tawido"; "I, Hlewagastir Holtson ("Holt's son" [1]), made this horn". [2]
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The six plain segments and the plain rim are additions made by Christian IV (hardly Christian V, b. 1646) just like the screw-on pommel, as he "refurbished it into a drinking-horn" in 1639 or 1640 before Wormius ever set eyes on it in 1640 or 1641 (Wormius explicitly states that he had never seen the horn in its original state).
Generally, fleshy fruits can be divided into two groups based on the presence or absence of a respiratory increase at the onset of ripening. This respiratory increase—which is preceded, or accompanied, by a rise in ethylene—is called a climacteric, and there are marked differences in the development of climacteric and non-climacteric fruits. [1]
A Tree of 40 Fruit fruiting in the artist's nursery. Each spring the tree's blossom is a mix of different shades of red, pink and white. [3] The tree of 40 fruits was originally conceived as an art project, and Sam Van Aken hoped that people would notice that the tree has different kinds of flower in spring and has different types of fruit in ...
The blessed fruits were kept by the church and divided between the clergy and the poor. Similar customs during the Middle Ages could be found in all European countries. First Fruits also refers to the payment new clerics made to the bishop or the Pope of all profits from the territory the new cleric controlled. This payment was called both ...
Chinese haw. Tanghulu (/ t ɑː ŋ ˈ h uː l uː / ⓘ) or tang hulu (traditional Chinese: 糖葫蘆; simplified Chinese: 糖葫芦; pinyin: táng húlu; lit. 'sugar calabash'), also called bingtang hulu (冰糖葫蘆; 冰糖葫芦; bīngtáng húlu; 'rock-sugar calabash'), is a traditional Chinese snack consisting of several rock sugar coated fruits of Chinese hawthorn (Crataegus pinnatifida ...