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2. Bearded axe - Wikipedia

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   The hook or "beard", i.e. the lower portion of the axe bit extending the cutting edge below the width of the butt, provides a wide cutting surface while keeping the overall mass of the axe low. This design allows the user to grip the haft directly behind the head for planing or shaving wood and variations of this design are still in use by ...

3. Czupryna - Wikipedia

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   Medieval Poles didn't like long hair: Henry's beard was so strange to them that he was even called "the Bearded". Stanisław Koniecpolski , 17th century The Last of Nieczujas The czupryna ( Polish : wysokie polskie cięcie, podgolony łeb, łaszczówka ), also known as the Polish halfshaven head , is a traditional Polish noble haircut ...

4. Viking Age arms and armour - Wikipedia

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   Viking landing at Dublin, 841, by James Ward (1851-1924). Knowledge about military technology of the Viking Age (late 8th to mid-11th century Europe) is based on relatively sparse archaeological finds, pictorial representations, and to some extent on the accounts in the Norse sagas and laws recorded in the 12th–14th centuries.

5. Norse rituals - Wikipedia

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   Norse religious worship is the traditional religious rituals practiced by Norse pagans in Scandinavia in pre-Christian times. Norse religion was a folk religion (as opposed to an organized religion), and its main purpose was the survival and regeneration of society. Therefore, the faith was decentralized and tied to the village and the family ...

6. Sigtrygg Silkbeard - Wikipedia

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   Sigtrygg II Silkbeard Olafsson (also Sihtric, Sitric [1] and Sitrick in Irish texts; or Sigtryg [2] and Sigtryggr [3] in Scandinavian texts) was a Hiberno-Norse king of Dublin (possibly AD 989–994; restored or began 995–1000; restored 1000 and abdicated 1036) of the Uí Ímair dynasty.

7. Hárbarðsljóð - Wikipedia

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   "Thor threatens Greybeard" (1908) by W. G. Collingwood. In this poem, the ferryman Harbard and the god Thor compete in a flyting or verbal contest with one other. The ferryman Hárbarðr (Greybeard) is rude and obnoxious towards Thor who is returning to Asgard after a journey in Jötunheimr, the land of the jötnar.