Heilsa All.

Hnikar has just sent news that Thorsteinn Gudjonsson, one of the three founders of the Asatru Fellowship in Iceland, has died.

All raise a horn to this kinsman this day for he feasts with the Gods.

DUBLIN (Reuters) - A hoard of Viking artifacts found in a cave in southern Ireland is baffling archaeologists. The hoard -- discovered by a heritage worker cleaning the cave -- comprises coins, bronze and silver ingots and conical objects made of silver wire. "Nothing like these have been seen anywhere, let alone in the Viking world. There is no parallel," Andrew Halpin, keeper of Irish antiquities at the National Museum in Dublin, told Reuters Friday. "We think they could be ornaments for garments, or some kind of cloak fastener, but we're not sure. It's a very important find for academics studying this era," he said. The hoard, found in county Kilkenny, south of Dublin, also includes Anglo-Saxon coins dating from 940, confirming historical evidence that the Vikings maintained settlements in both Ireland and northern England at the time. Halpin said the cave may have been used as a refuge and the artifacts probably formed part of someone's personal wealth -- stashed for safe keeping during some kind of emergency. A Viking presence at the site had been well established, he said, and there were records of a massacre of 1,000 people in the cave about 40 years before the earliest date on the coins. Vikings first carried out hit-and-run raids on Ireland in 795 and later founded settlements, including most of Ireland's existing major towns, around 840.

Paolo GAUNA,

FP,

I-14047-Mombercelli (Asti)

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