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>"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.
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>>3016329
i-it would have been comfy haha
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>tfw we would have been nordic if it weren't for william and his meddling kids
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>>3016395
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVcdf5_t_eI
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>>3016329
>and his frogs
Wew lad
You've mentioned the ultimate TABOO
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>>3016451
they spoke a frog language and did frog things
they were frogs
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>>3016460
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>>3016329
You should be fucking honored to get conquered by William the Conquerer. He's my personnel hero.
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>>3016473
Source right now
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>>3016494
Crécy - Warren Ellis
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>>3016460
t. Anglo
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>just going down to the shore
>brb
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>>3016395
>get conquered by nordics
>now no longer nordic
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>>3016395
William was more nordic than you celtic mongrels
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>>3016395
Normans were literally Danes
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>>3017313
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
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>>3016460
>did frog things
Like bringing Civilization to inbred barbarians you mean ?
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>>3016500
I like how he's giving us the English bird
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>>3017335
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
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>>3016329
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)
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>>3017390
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.
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>>3017313
Which Danes speak French, call themselves French, and are black haired ?
Rollo was Norwegian tho
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>>3016329
Scuse on that quote?
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>tfw the good guys objectively lost at Hastings
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