vaultdweller013

joined 2 years ago

Hey now dont do my boy Saint Nicholas dirty like that, he was an Anatolian Greek. The Turks were still firmly in central Asia during his lifetime, though Anatolian Turks are a mix of the of the nomadic Turks and Anatolian greeks it's one of those things where the distinction is notable. It'd be like calling Vercingetorix French, like it's not technically wrong from a regionalist perspective and his people did help form the French but it's still wrong on a lot of levels.

Also fun fact Saint Nicholas punch Arius in the face at the council of Nicea. Also his bones are now leaking and have been for awhile, though it's probably two different things being merged into the same myth, they used to put certain oils into sarcophaguss back in his lifetime and it probably became a pilgrims tradition later on and his modern sarcophaguss in Italy probably works as a condenser for water.

Cant remember the name of the particular story but there's actually a myth centered around a Blót where basically a war chief is destined by the Norns to be sacrificed. They try to trick the gods and it goes bad for him.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It's a pretty old term so it technically has three different pronunciations bloot like blood, blot like to to blot out the sun, and blut like blunt without the n. Though you'd have to ask someone who is a bit more familiar with medieval Germanic languages.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pretty sure there's also some stoic philosophers who made such observations. Also I'm pretty sure Diogenes said something like that if not in words then in spirit.

Pretty sure you described Tom form Myspace, dude got his money and GTFOd.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I propose Blót. Hanged speared then we feast, but not on the corpse that's for Odin.

Ya know I can't particularly put into words the emotions that I currently feel having read your comment. But I can say what I wish to do, I wish to rend the flesh of profligate filth with mine fucking teeth.

Shut up, then eat shit and die.

I feel like it'd be better to post the picture of her house.

The Latin and Greek speaking parts of the world probably had a word for purple by that point. Remember the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes who would evolve into the medieval Anglo-Saxons were from around modern continental Denmark to about the modern Hanover region. This area didn't really have the color purple all that much and frankly speaking Britain ain't much better on that front, probably why it took till around the viking age to get a word for it since that's when pan European trade started to pick up again to a large enough degree for purple dyes to start getting to Britain on a regular basis.

It's because it's a less distinct element from blue than red is to yellow. It's kinda like how someone can tell the difference between a heavy machine and a pistol but they may not be able to tell the difference between a rifle and a shotgun.

Aye that's the spirit.

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