>"The Anglo-Saxon did not say he was going to sea, he was going on 'the whale's way.' Rather than go in a ship, he went in a 'lone wanderer,' a 'far flyer.' The use of metaphor or kenning was not for the purposes of poetic license but to prevent, if possible, the sea from finding out about the mariner's buisness."
Oy vey. We really lost something in the Anglo-Saxons, man.
It's fun to wonder what England'd look like hadn't it been for Shilliam and his frogs.
No they weren't, they were French who maybe had a great-great Norwegian grandfather.
Also, Rollon was Norwegian :^)
Silly Danes are so good at writing fairy tales
Gabriel Rivera
>did frog things
Like bringing Civilization to inbred barbarians you mean ?
Jaxon Reed
I like how he's giving us the English bird
Sebastian Brown
we dont really know where he came from. non-scandinavians back then didn't try to differ between danes and norwegians and culturally they were pretty much the same
but im more of a snorri fanboy so id say norwegian
John Rodriguez
This same superstition about naming potentially dangerous things is why we have no word for "wolf" or "bear" in English (wolf just means "wild" while bear means "brown", the actual names for these animals is lost but was probably related to the Greek lycos and arkouda)
David Moore
That's where it came from, my friend.
Flaunting that you still had all your fingers. Not ever captured by the enemy and comparatively fucking deadly at the time the gesture began.
Alexander Adams
Which Danes speak French, call themselves French, and are black haired ?