Peacocks and Vikings of course

If you craft an eclectic Twitter feed, you can get some interesting coincidences.

I came across Viking stranger-kings: the foreign as a source of power in Viking Age Scandinavia, or, why there was a peacock in the Gokstad ship burial? by Andres (Minos) Dobat somewhere this morning. Scrounging around I found this from a couple of months ago:

Bones of two peacocks were found in the Gokstad ship burial (900AD) indicating a high status man that had international connections. #viking pic.twitter.com/mlVLKBHd0C

— Ellen Hagen (@northbird_ellen) December 1, 2016

An hour later, this pops up.

A 6thC peacock; presbytery vault/arches mosaic, Ravenna, Church of San Vitale, 527-48: https://t.co/0Haa3cFUoF pic.twitter.com/qV87AW4g2C

— Dr Caitlin Green (@caitlinrgreen) February 6, 2017