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Jun 16, 2022 1:12 PM
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tintifaxius
#8 it's good to see the reaction guys again
PlayerBhatin
#1 Translation: "On Wodensday that idiot Erik tied himself up in his own rope again."
BenevolentViking
Look up "Turisas - Miklagård Overture", thank me later.
aPokal
Wormwood89
Not often I see Old Norse memes but always happy when I do!
CBadger
Kievan Rus kneeling. They weren't "vikings" as that literally just means "raiders". They were mercenaries, not vikings.
bagoffishstix
Vikingtransgirl
Mhmm relevant to my interests
ExTechOp
#8 It should be noted these are speculative reconstructions https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/Harjawaldaz#English
CodyBurkett
Pippin and I loved these and stole them all, because we are vikingr of memes.
bardman135
#1 the lines in the middle aren't runes. They are ancient UPCs for their boats...they had to Scandinavian.
mward1984
#7 To be fair though, the Byzantines were really cool.
erikleorga
Fascinating the surge in popularity Norse Culture has in the last few years.
BananaParagon
https://youtu.be/azvJhsa3i5k is a fantastic breakdown of how fascists try and fail to co-opt the glorious history of the Nordic peoples.
contempted
GingerLaird
#6 "It's a good thing we aren't Christian." - Said the Vikings that came for gold and glory.
carnsolus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxptIpCYAJA valhalla calling song by miracle of sound
DevineEscapes
#13 Norwegian dude with an axe--he's fighting at a strategic choke point. Forces the enemy to fight one at a time, helps when outnumbered.
nobodylikeskale
Is this guy named?
SoNi2409
No. But his existence and the story of his demise is fairly certain, he appears in both Norse tales and Anglo-Saxon chronicles.
nobodylikeskale
Oh interesting. Thank you!
davyclam
Battle of Stamford Bridge. 1066. Yorkshire, even then.
SoNi2409
Too bad his life ended with a spear to the family jewels. Still pretty badass, though.
contempted
#11
I've tried to drop this in when talking about the Danes/Norse. I just get glared at!
ArgJargon
No thank YOU for still trying. They appropriated a verb and forcefully designated it as a noun. It's wrong. But Norse has lots of nuance.
RoutemasterFlash
Most people still think it refers to an ethnicity, rather than just being the Old Norse/Old English word for 'pirate'.
PalaverQuader
#11 EY! once ze german language got it down better!
AnneMakesMistakes
#11 Ayy! The look is wrong though.
DaisyWarrior
Do we know if the total usable land in Greenland is actually larger than iceland?
Northwindlowlander
It depends what you want to use it for. Storing your glacier? Ideal.
rbudrick
I mean, I imagine it's mostly rock and not soil under the glaciers.
Alfadorfox
I mean that depends how you define "usable", so that number could increase as technology advances...
FiendishDoctorWuTangClan
And ice melts
WoodfolkFae
and when the earth gets warmer
Onsvaltti
#4 100% finnish, so much almost inbred, but we have next to none viking history here in Finland. Boo boring.
Justtakealookatthis
At least you have your own creation myth. Ours was 90% invented in the 19th century.
Onsvaltti
I mean yes but I have never in my life met someone who actually believes that. We are just like "oh yeah the poems."
davyclam
But the whole world knows you're not Russian.
swedeonamoose
I mean since what is today Finland was Swedish for almost 700 years, honorary vikings ?
Onsvaltti
Thanks, that's sweet of you.
AllMaktAtTengilVarBefriare
You got way cooler early 1900s history than the rest of us in the north tho, worthy of saga and memes!
MrFancyPanzer
As a norwegian i find it interesting that I can still understand a decent amount of old Norse.
dontfeedthetrolls
laughing in Icelandic
Iaimtomisbehave
#7 Meanwhile, over at the Hagia Sophia: "Hafdan was here".
ahorseelbowdeepinme
Tholfir Kolbeinsson carved these runes high up
MrScud
Shit reads like dark souls messages
TheRockDude
Try tongue, but hole
LordAndSaviourBirdJesus
That explains the runes I was farming!
WarlockSniper
Finger... but hole
JColdIron
#3 WHERE IS AXE GUYS SEAX?
TheYoungBear
he preferred playing the horn
wylkyn
He probably lost it the last time he decided to leave the shield wall and go all berserko on everybody.
JColdIron
Cleric stole it... hidden in his entrails!
Dagordae
#20 We know shockingly little about the Aesir religion. A vast majority of what we ‘know’ was written much later by Christian missionaries
NinjaCongo
And much less of the animistic worship of the nature embodiment goddess Hel, meaning literally Whole, Everything, who was subsequently 1
NinjaCongo
relegated to being the place, and later the goddess, of death by the Aesir. And much later becoming Hell in the Christian paradigm. 2
whatIdontknowcouldfillawarehouse
Or Icelandic farmers like Snorri
Justtakealookatthis
Aren't there some Roman descriptions of their religious rites? I know there was a travel journal that said Germanic tribes worship Mercury 1
Justtakealookatthis
2/2 and based on the description it could have been Odin or an earlier version of him at least.
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
The Romans had no contact with the Norse. They would have written about continental Germanic mythology, which differs from Anglo-Saxon and…
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
Norse mythology. E.g., Freyja is only a distinct goddess from Frigg in the Norse pantheon. The continental Germanic Frija appears to be ...
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
both deities rolled into one. There are also gods like Phol mentioned in the Merseburg charms who have no counterpart in the Norse pantheon.
TheGiantIdiotTeddyBear
Most of what we know has been discovered by experimental archeology rather than research of written sources
RoutemasterFlash
Isn't Snorri Sturluson's writing meant to be fairly reliable? He was writing in the Christian era but I don't think his material is >
RoutemasterFlash
regarded as being too badly 'contaminated' by Christianity.
sunfield
I was taught that he wasn't all reliable as a narrator. Balder's saga is has key notes to Jesus, as example, so some salt taking is needed.
sunfield
Doesn't mean the sagas are bad or without worth, but that you need historical context when reading/studying them. As with all old documents.
RoutemasterFlash
Of course. The question then would be: given that the Christianization of Scandinavia began in the 9th century and that large parts of it >
Dagordae
With the standard intent of tying it to Christianity. So any time someone starts talking about ancient tradition and faith, they’re talking
Dagordae
About a version never actually followed by the actual people. A theme park version designed around Jesus.
quzar
And most neopagans don't know any of that, but merely modern imitations of the theme park version.
TheBlondSwede
And here I sit. A 34 year old Swede with almost a thousand year family history, and today I ran away from a bee and abandoned my tuna salad.
AllMaktAtTengilVarBefriare
Bees are tiny and hard to hit with axes, feel no shame landsfrände.
OptimisticMisanthrope
My grandma (whose parents were from Norway) used to say this nursery rhyme. "1000 Swedes ran through the weeds pursued by 1 Norwegian."
sunfield
I had never heard of this so I had to google it out of curiosity what on earth this was about. And for those also curious I found this site:
TheWombatStrikesAgain
#19 Sadly, nordic mythology is as overused as greek mythology. Would really like to see some lesser known mythologies resurface.
RoutemasterFlash
Central America is a goldmine for this sort of thing.
Sauroctonus
Let's have some Etruscan mythology.
RoutemasterFlash
Do we know much about that? Probably quite hard given that we don't understand their language.
TheRicM
Try some Filipino mythologies or Polynesian ones, those are pretty cool
BenevolentViking
You mean, frequently bastardised by entertainment people in anglosphere countries who don't bother to actually research or depict it well.*
AllMaktAtTengilVarBefriare
Oh how Marvel butchered my beloved norse mythology, Odin being a pacifist takes the cake.
BenevolentViking
I think most cultures would rather not have their mythologies warped and cheapened into the next disney trademark or assassin's creed game.
KlatnYelox
Maybe so, but there is some good shit in Indian mythology and/or ancient fiction like the Mahabharata, we should be able to casually learn.
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
Chances are Norse mythology had already undergone dramatic changes in the centuries before the Prose Edda took a snapshot in time. Stories …
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
mutate rapidly in the oral tradition and tend to be regionally different. Every storyteller adds his own flourishes & fills in forgotten ...
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
details ad hoc. What Marvel does today isn't all that different from what happened back then. I just wish they'd give all mythologies the...
marthafarquar
Frankish traders - Seen any unicorns up your way ? Vikings (who had seen Narwhals) - Unicorns ?..... Fuck yeah loads, but it will cost you
Wormwood89
Don’t forget the unicorn that one band of norsemen slew in Russia… allegedly
swedeonamoose
Swedes tend to see many strange things after a drink or two.
RevengeIsIceCream
Even more after eating fly agaric
Wormwood89
Yeah but Ibn Sala was a muslim so unless his hosts forced him to chugg one with them…
Feralkyn
If it took a whole band, mighta been a relict ice age rhino with a forehead horn, Elasmotherium.
Wormwood89
That’s my headcanon as well! Tho sadly evidence is sketchy at best…
Justtakealookatthis
Unless it time travelled 10,000 years forward it couldn't be. They could have found a frozen one eroded out of the permafrost though!
Feralkyn
Well, relict means "alive way beyond when it's meant to be extinct" which is why I used that word :P