I've torn my desk apart, I've gone under the furniture with a flashlight, but I'm pretty sure they're out there in the wild. It was a whimsy purchase, and I don't know if I even want to ask my wife to let me try again. I can do whatever I want, of course, but I need her to check me.
I bought two nalbinding needles, one horn and one bone, to learn and practice knitting. I stored them in my glasses case by my keyboard.
And I must've needed my glasses for something, because the needles are missing from the case, completely lost. Really taking this badly, tonight.
A rocky, hilly landscape with a cairn of rocks in the foreground. Superimposed is the text: Cows die, family die, you will die the same way. I know only one thing that never dies: the reputation of the one who's died. Havamal 77. ÓðinsdagsAndakt. Photo by Tom Dils on Unsplash. Translation by Dr. Jackson Crawford.
Current events bring me down. Our society vaunts the worst among us—Palmer Luckey, Andrew Tate, Bezos and Musk and Trump—and enough people admire these wicked souls that I wonder whether I have any place in this world at all. #ÓðinsdagsAndakt #OldNorse #Havamal Translation by @norsebysw.bsky.social
An extract from Paul C. Sinding's 1858 volume 'History of Scandinavia', which reads: 'The history, therefore, of Scandinavia, through the first eight centuries after Christ, until King Gorm the Old, is properly and correctly called 'the Fabulous Age'
Petition to once again - properly and correctly - refer to late Scandinavian prehistory as 'the Fabulous Age'.
"Laga" means prepare and "laug" means bath, but I don't know if that makes them related etymologically. #OldNorse
elska (sb. f.): 174 cits, e.g. (between sovereign/authority and subject/subordinate) love, devotion ‘«gafuzst ok þær raunir a at »þeir fengu mesta…’ (Fbr in GKS 1005 fol) onp.ku.dk/o17818
Funny how "skip" means ship but "skipa" means arrange. Does that have to do with organizing a ship for travel? #OldNorse #LanguageLearning
G154
Giant hacked
so that a staircase is made up his body.
Happy International Women’s Day to Þora, who owned this spindle-whorl sometime in the 14th century in Iceland.
The inscription reads þo^ra:amig, ‘Þora owns me’. #runology #runes
F51.1.5
Rope
of god's own hair.
A small knife with a polished wooden handle next to a shaped leather sheath. To the upper right is a leather pouch, and below that is a chunk of bark with ALU carved in Elder Futhark.
Bought a small 3" "seax" through #BootsByBohemond. Tonight I practiced carving #runes with it, learned how to force a patina on the blade; next I'll learn how to sharpen it. Very pleased with the newest edition to my kit. boots-by-bohemond.myshopify.com/products/sae... #OldNorse
ríkr (adj.): 321 cits, e.g. [GoogleTrans: mighty, powerful, great, respectable, distinguished, high-ranking] // mægtig, magtfuld, stor, anselig, fornem, højtrangerende ‘mikill maðr ok sterkr falatr ok fastnæmr ok rikr i heraði heima’ (Dpl in AM 132 fol) onp.ku.dk/o65050
Collage of the bands' album covers.
Skating in under the radar to participate in #BandcampFriday (setting my VPN to California to turn back the clock)!
This round it's #Forndom, #Herkunft, #Munknorr, and #Songleikr. Rounding out my collection, chipping away at my #VikingMusic wishlist.
Topic of who is/isn't saved in Christianity.
Wife: I refuse to accept that some innocent [outsider], living a decent life, would be damned because he hadn't heard of Jesus.
Mom, evangelical: Well, that's how it goes sometimes.
Me: Is your God the god of the world or the god of a religion?
*grumbling* If people spent half as much time on creating as they do virtue-signaling …
nøkkurr (pron. indef.): 1582 cits, e.g. [GoogleTrans: (in relation to quantity) a lot, considerable, significant, quite a lot] ‘er ⸢nockorir ero capsmenn [V-1: nockvt (var. nakuat Hkr Holm perg 9 II fol 1va³⁵) skaplynði hafa …’ (ÓH in Holm perg 2 4°) onp.ku.dk/o57831
Very sick today. Usually I'm isolated and apart, but last week were a couple family occasions and I necessarily caught something. This doesn't encourage me to be social.
My lovely wife made a lovely pot of chicken soup, so I've got that going for me.
Es ist schrecklich. Meine eigene Nation bestraft Armut, als wäre sie ein Verbrechen.
Following this process is absolutely fascinating.
Es ist ein schreckliches Problem. Als praktischer Autor ist es schwierig, zuversichtlich und begeistert zu bleiben und weiterzumachen.
It's pretty magical.
A find photograph of a small, rectangular lead plaque, Torksey find DB 1620, from the Great Army camp at Torksey, Lincolnshire.
It's Viking Camps #FindsFriday! I've had a few weeks away, with both the Jorvik Festival and half term, so we'll get back to it today... and in honour of yesterday's World Book Day (heavily norse-themed in this household) I thought we'd look at a find with some writing.
This is Torksey DB 1620. /1
Sorry to hear it.
Giving @eurosky.social a try, an EU-hosted, decentralized social identity on the AT Protocol. Post, follow, move apps—your network travels with you. #OpenWeb #Eurosky
Yesterday’s #Wordle: fyrri (adj. compar.): 390 cits, e.g. [GoogleTrans: older, ancient, former, previous] // ældre, fordums, tidligere, foregående, forrige ‘kann vera at þaðan af leiðist, er varð í fyrrum tímum, at ...’ (GBp in Holm perg 5 fol) onp.ku.dk/o25223 #OldNorse
I want to start a new blog, one in which I work through and share my studies, and I'll talk to people about what drew them to #OldNorse culture, arts, spirituality, etc.
But I'm not an academic, I'm just some guy. I question what I'd add to the conversation and my impulse to constantly broadcast.
G426
Ogre draws girl over waterfall.
I had deleted my IG for about a year, started up a new one when I began studying Old Norse, hoping to find some information or inspiration. I'm still deciding how much I'm actually getting out of it. Neat things to see but no interaction.
Struggling to expand my Mastodon instance's federation. There just aren't a lot of #OldNorse and #ScandiMyth accounts there. I've found some legitimate researchers and academics, but like this place, they largely seem to terminate in 2022.
Wake up, Ǫlvir, if you want to see women; you are very generous with kisses for women. Listen … the girls of Hrauðungr‹giant› [GIANTESSES] are waiting for you; turn to [them] if your courage serves you.
