{"id":39187,"date":"2013-10-12T15:19:23","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T21:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/12\/personally-i-blame-grendel.html"},"modified":"2013-10-12T15:19:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T21:19:23","slug":"personally-i-blame-grendel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/12\/personally-i-blame-grendel.html","title":{"rendered":"Personally, I blame Grendel"},"content":{"rendered":"
A mysteriously slaughtered village of ancient Sweden, the wealth left untouched but people brutally murdered. \u00a0Hmmmmm …. \u00a0(h\/t +<\/span>Yonatan Zunger<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Kee Hinckley<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Pristine archeological remains of a 1600 year old massacre in Sweden.<\/p>\n

Note the Roman and Byzantine jewelry. The ancient world was a lot more connected than we give them credit for.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Sweden’s ‘Pompeii’ massacre baffles experts – The Local<\/a>
\n Archaeologists who unearthed five ancient and brutally-murdered bodies last week on a Swedish island say they’ve discovered an inexplicable massacre, with one expert expecting to find hundreds more bodies in a scene she compared to Italy’s Pompeii.\n <\/p>\n

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A mysteriously slaughtered village of ancient Sweden, the wealth left untouched but people brutally murdered. \u00a0Hmmmmm …. \u00a0(h\/t +Yonatan Zunger) Reshared post from +Kee Hinckley Pristine archeological remains of a 1600 year old massacre in Sweden. Note the Roman and Byzantine jewelry. The ancient world was a lot more connected than we give them credit … Continue reading “Personally, I blame Grendel”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135832,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/12\/trying-figure-play-ancient-board-games.html","url_meta":{"origin":39187,"position":0},"title":"Trying to figure out how to play ancient board games","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 12-Jan-18 11:55am","format":false,"excerpt":"We often have boards, sometimes pieces, and occasionally literary references to the games played in ancient civilizations, but actual rules? 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