Germanic cultural space

[The Lawspeaker]

In 2007 a crew of 65 brave men and women set sail on a journey from Roskilde back to Dublin in a 30m (100ft) Viking longship named "Havhingsten fra Glendalough" ("Sea Stallion from Glendalough"), a Danish reconstruction of the Skuldelev 2 ship on display in the Roskilde Viking Ship Museum and originally built around 1040 near Dublin. BBC TimeWatch follows this amazing journey of experimental maritime archaeology.

[Token]

Ostara, Germanic goddess after whom English Easter and German Ostern are named.

During Ēosturmōnaþ (the equivalent of April), pagan Anglo-Saxons had held feasts in Ēostre's honour, but this tradition had died out by the time of Bede, replaced by the Christian Paschal month, a celebration of the resurrection of Jesus.

[The Lawspeaker]

The famous of 15th century Hours of Catherine of Cleves:

[Token]

Kölner Dom, the contrast with the modernist architecture in the background is interesting. Nothing more Germanic than Gothic architecture

[The Lawspeaker]

Summerday by Balestrand by Norwegian painter Hans Dahl (19 February 1849 – 27 July 1937)

[The Lawspeaker]

Runes

[TeutonicBoyars]

Kölner Dom, the contrast with the modernist architecture in the background is interesting. Nothing more Germanic than Gothic architecture

I'll be the first to say that Germany perfected Gothic in their own way, but I'm pretty sure Gothic architecture itself originated in France and was just a modification of the Romanesque, and by extension, Roman tradition.

[The Lawspeaker]

Dutch/Flemish dialect maps:





The Nijlânnermolen - a windmill near Workum in Frisia province:


An image of the past:

[Jacques de Imbelloni]

[Creoda]