by Karen Nyenhuis | Dec 9, 2025 | Eighteenth Century Denmark-Norway
Who was Spying on Whom in the Eighteenth Century? One of the difficulties in studying espionage in the early eighteenth century is determining who was fighting whom in an era of constantly shifting alliances and therefore who would be spying on whom. A military...
by Karen Nyenhuis | Nov 24, 2025 | Folklore of Scandinavia, Sami History, Tales from Sapmi
Sami Stories Recounted by English Historian Charles Billson Charles Billson was an English folk tale historian. The source for Billson is an article in a journal that is only available in a few scans. A record of a lecture Billson delivered to a Folklore Society on...
by Karen Nyenhuis | Nov 8, 2025 | Religious Conflict in Eighteenth Century Europe, Shipping Ports in 18th Century Europe
Image: Delft porcelain clock from a family collection, no maker’s mark. Photo by Karen Nyenhuis. Shipping Hub for the Sugar Trade In the seventeenth century, Amsterdam was a shipping hub for the Atlantic sugar trade. The sugar was grown on islands such as...
by Karen Nyenhuis | Oct 22, 2025 | Great Northern War
original rendering of a snow brig by @kris_tinsart Tall Ships from 1700 to 1721 The decades of the Great Northern War were a time of change in the design of tall ships. Most well-known books featuring tall ships are set a hundred years later during the Napoleonic Wars...
by Karen Nyenhuis | Jul 29, 2025 | Just Knud Qvigstad, Naerøy Manuscript, Norse Mythology, Sami History
IMAGE SOURCE: Just Knud Qvigstad, Kildeskriffter til den Lappish Mythologi, Aktiertykkeriet I Trondheim, 1903, public domain, P. 64. Scan by the University of Chicago Library. Photo excerpt by Karen Nyenhuis....
