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Link to text		Migration time in Europe. Who went where and when.


Link to text		Attila; according to Liebig's meat extract


Link to text		Alarich, according to Liebig's meat extract


Link to text	Roland demonstrates Durendal's power
Source: This detail was taken from a picture supplied in 2010 by Marie Therese Ross as part of "Britain Loves Wikipedia".








Link to text		Battle Scenes from the "Morgan Bible" (Pierpont Morgan Library, New York)


Link to text		Battle Scence (Battle of Antioch) with Adhémar du Puy holding the holy lance
Source: British Library Manuscript in the Yates Thompson Collection (No. 12, f. 29); picture from Wikipedia

Here comes a long (and growing) series of Jesus with a sword coming out of his mouth" pictures.
I keep finding more and more in unexpected places.


Link to text		Jesus at the last judgement with a double edged sword issuing from his mouth, exemplifying that the word of God is sharper than a sword.
Source: "Landgrafenpsalter", 1208 - 1213; Württembg. Landesmuseum, Stuttgart; Germany


Link to text		Jesus at the final judgement with a more discrete sword close to his mouth. Found in the city museum of Muenster, Germany. Painted by Jan Baegert (1505 - 1510) for an altar. Note that the sword is not very typical for 1500 and not particular detailed either.
Source: Photographed in the Stadtmuseum Münster; Germany


Link to text		Part of an Altar piece shown in the Hungarian National Gallery The artist and other details are given in Hungarian and thus not overly helpful to the likes of me.
Source: Photographed in the National Gallery Budapest


Link to text	Part of a funeral tapestry from 1450
Source: Source: Photographed 2015 in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg, Germany


The last judgement in the "Bamberger Psalter" from 1230/1240
Link to text	Source: State library,. Bamberg, Germany


"The last Judgement", around 1488, from an unknown artist belonging to the St Severn School in Cologne (Köln), Germany


"Life and Passion of Christ", around 1432; Unknow master in Cologne (Köln)
Link to text	Source: Photgraphed in the Wallraf-Richartz Museun in Cologne (Köln), Germany, 2016


Part of a Tryptichon in the St. Kunibert Church in Cologne (Köln), Germany
Link to text	Source: Photographed in St. Kunibert, Köln, 2016
Source: This detail was taken from a picture supplied in 2010 by Marie Therese Ross as part of "Britain Loves Wikipedia".


Backside of a 1531 altar
Link to text	Source: Photographed in the Landesmuseum Württemberg


Unexpected find in the St. Marienkirche, Berlin Kept in the dark and without referennce to the artist

Jean Bellegambe, around 1520, Staatsgaölerie Berlin
Link to text	Source: Photographed in the St. Marienkirche, Berlin, 2019


Link to text		Jesus at the final judgement with a very discrete sword close to his mouth. 19th century work
Source: Photographed in the Dublin, Ireland cathedral.


Link to text	Jesus with sword "coming out" of his mouth (sort of). Fresco in the Aarhus (Denmark) Cathedral from 1470 -1520.
Source: Photographed in Aarhus, 2015


Link to text		Jesus with sword "coming out" of his mouth. From an altar in Hildesheim or so, Niedersachsen, Germany, around 1430
Source: Photographed in the "Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum", Hannover, Germany


Link to text		This one I found in Tallin, the capital of Estonia. It's a flaming sword and it is nit coming out of Jesus' mouth but entrapped, it appears between his head and his halo. The picture is on the outside wall of the town hall
Source: Photographed in the

Here is a somewhat unusual use of a sword.
You need to smoke strong stuff or be very religious to come up with ideas like this.


Link to text	Sun dial with a (real) sword stuck into Maria as dial
Source: Photographed in Aarhus, 2015

Here is another unusual one: Jesus with two swords coming out of his mouth. It can be seen in the cathedral in Ratzeburg, Germany and was painted around 1400 AS


Link to text	Double-sworded Jesus in Ratzeburg
Source: Photographed 2021 in trhe cathedral in Ratzeburg, Germany

Here is Jesusu with swords and palm fornd coming out of his mouth. It can be seen in the cathedral in
Konstanz, Germany and was painted around 1300 AD. It's hard to phiotograph because it*s dark
and the painting is way up over the door.


Link to text	Jesus with sword and palm frond in the Konstanz cathedral
Source: Photographed 2021 in trhe cathedral in Konstanz; Gwermany

Jesusu here looks down on you from the centre of an unbelievably grandiose rondelle in Saint Chapelle, Paris


Link to text	Jesus eating his sword in Paris
Source: Photographed in Paris, Nov. 2021


Link to text		Zulfiqar; Askeri Museum, Istanbul
Source: "Weapons of Warriors"


Link to text		St. Gregorius with Sword
Source: Photographd in the Naumburg Cathedral; window (13th century)


Link to text		St. Sebastian with Sword
Source: Photographd in the Naumburg Cathedral; window (13th century)


Link to text.		Siegfried doing his thing at the entrance door to the City Hall in Oslo, capital of Norway
Source: Photograhed there


Link to text		A Burial at Varna (4700-4200 BC) with some of the world's oldest gold objects
Source: Internet a large


Link to text		The queen doing a bit of knighting ( It's Michael Ogio, Gouvernor General of Papau-New Guinea).
Source: Süddeutsche Zeitung; April 28, 2011; Foto : Getty


Link to text		Replica of a "Spatha" from around 575 AD
Source: The website of Patrick Bárta, swordsmith, specialized in repliques of European swords. Used with permission http://www.templ.net/english/patrick_barta_and_contact.php


Link to text		TrophySword in Bamberg, Germany
Source: Photographed there


Link to text		Brünhilde on her trusty horse Grane. Note the dead Siegmund still clutching parts of broken Notung and Brünhildes impenetrable forged steel bra. Also note that this was a famous performance. The technical quality of the records, however, is execrably bad. I wonder, if that was an unlicensed pirate copy - the name of the extremely famous dramatic soprano Kirsten Flagstad is actually misspelled!


Link to text		Pot, partially hollowed out by drilling with (presumably) hollow copper drills. Found in the National Museum of Anthropology (Mexico City). Of course, the museum does not give an explanation of what you see, not to mention that this pot is truly remarkable in the context of old tools and techniques.