Plenty of Nothing

The Second Day

God creates the Firmament on the second day of Creation, possibly on September 2nd. From the Grabow Altarpiece, painted by Master Bertram of Minden 1379-83. That tiled floor raises questions.

Mourners

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Cymburgis of Masovia

A member of the Polish Piast dynasty, Cymburgis married Ernest the Iron, Duke of Austria, in 1412. She is the ancestor of all modern Habsburgs, and could crack nuts with her bare hands.

Talbot Hound

The talbot was a medieval breed of hunting dog that hasn't existed for the past two centuries, having been crossbred into various modern dogs, including the beagle. The Scottish football club Auchinleck Talbot is named after a local worthy Richard Wogan Talbot, 2nd Baron Talbot de Malahide, who donated the land for their pitch and who had a talbot hound in his coat of arms. Source.

Aristotle and Phyllis

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The Dunstable Swan Jewel

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Medieval Ovid

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Moutiers-en-Puisaye

A trove of medieval paintings was discovered under the whitewash in the Church of Saint Peter in Moutiers-en-Puisaye in 1982. Source.

Grave of a Shield Maiden

Top: 1889 record of a Viking burial. Bottom: recreation by Neil Price. From the time of its discovery this skeleton was assumed to be male, but recent DNA analysis shows it was a women. Source.

European Macaques of the Mist

Source. Dr Caitin Green writes about the Wroxeter macaque burial.