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[satismagic.livejournal.com]

Thanks to ms_cucumber I have a few new icons. She linked me to a wonderful, wonderful website with the most amazing scans of old manuscripts. One of them was the awesome "Lindisfarne Gospels", an Anglo-Saxon manuscript produced in Northumbria during the late 7th or early 8th ecntury (!). Take a look at high quality scans of the manuscript here - and you'll know why I couldn't resist.

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01. 02. 03. 04.

05. 06. 07. 08.

09. 10. 11. 12.

13. 14. 15. 16.


Comment, credit and enjoy!
(And of course you can customize any icon the way you want it.)

Comments

[brusse.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, Lindisfarne!

My ancestors sacked that place quite thoroughly! OK, no, it wasn't a good thing, but what do you expect from vikings?


(Note: At the time the Holy Isle was part of the Kingdom Of Scotland).

[satismagic.livejournal.com]

what do you expect from vikings?

< joke >...that they behave like little angels with frozen wings? ;-)

Hmmm...

Well, in retrospect I would probably be a bit more careful about what to expect than King Harold Godwinson was, when he expected King Harald Hardrada to be content with "Six feet of ground or as much more as he needs, as he is taller than most men." (Thank you, Wikipedia, for that nice quote.) (Though in the end that was what Hardrada got, wasn't it? Not that this helped King Harold much, though...)< / joke >

[ellid.livejournal.com]

Absolutely *gorgeous*. Am taking 3 and 6, with full credit.

[oenone-borealis.livejournal.com]

Those are gorgeous! Thanks for posting them. My alter-ego and I will be taking #1 and #8. Will credit, of course.

[peridot-pools.livejournal.com]

Nevermind, just taking #8

[allyness.livejournal.com]

WOW! Beautiful! Thank you for sharing! I'll be taking nr. 16. Will credit!

[aglarien1.livejournal.com]

You've done it again! These are so gorgeous, I took almost all of them! Thank you!

[foxeddc.livejournal.com]

I'm snitching a couple ... they are all so beautiful that it's difficult to decide! Will credit, of course.

Thank you

[sovevuni.livejournal.com]

Goregeous!!! Took #7, will credit!

[bookwoman84.livejournal.com]

Ooh, pretty...

I'm making off with 8 and 4. Thanks so much!

[ruhamah.livejournal.com]

These are beautiful! I took 4, 8, 12, and 14. :)

[cindy-m.livejournal.com]

You find the most marvelous things! These are gorgeous.

[rocalisa.livejournal.com]

I snagged #7. My son's name is Marcus, so I certainly couldn't leave it behind. :-)

[pouringsand.livejournal.com]

Oh, so lovely, thank you! Snagging several, will of course credit.