Its been awhile since I had some extra money to spend. Its been awhile since I went to a nice restaurant and didnt care and just ordered what I want…
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groggy… I must've been so tired when I came home from paying Bill all day earlier… and my head feels like it's rolling…
Went to the mall earlier today. If I had the money I'd send Stuart Ashen (the guy that reviews what he calls "cheap ripoff tat" the MiWi… the ripoff of the Wii that tries so very hard to be… but instead drowns in pee… or something like that. Actually tried the thing out and found… that the controller is broken. Lovely, "KD Toy Store"… And I thought their ripoff of a certain Transformer called "Emporer King Optimus" was bad…
I wonder how bad things would get if someone made a cheap knockoff of Drunkduck…
Ha ha. I expected you'd react to that.I was playing with the Icelandic genealogy book and discovered that I'm a direct descendant of the guy who wrote the Edda (granted, there are 20 generations between us, but I'm a direct descendant, none the less).Permission to swear loudly.
I am so jealous. I hate you.
But what's not to like about the guy? Wrote series of books that helped define medieval European literature (Lord of the rings would not have been written without that, you know), largely responsible to preserve the old Norse mythology, one of the major chieftains responsible for the Icelandic civil war, and has an age named after him.
All around a nice guy, don't you think? :þ
I also just realized, since I'm a direct descendant of Snorri, it means that I'm also a direct descendant of Egill Skallagrímsson.
I'm having way too much fun with this genealogy book.
While genealogy is fun to play with, I think it's best if I don't find out who I'm a descendant of… I don't know… I think some things aren't ment for some people to know…
What would a knockoff of Drunkduck be like? It'd be an Inebriated Peking Mallard drinking lots of bottles of Tsingtao beer hosting a webcomic site only available in certain countries with all its content owned and regulated by certain governing bodies…
I also just realized, since I'm a direct descendant of Snorri, it means that I'm also a direct descendant of Egill Skallagrímsson.Jaybus! I sure as hell hope you take after Snorri more than Egil!
I haven't seen the documents so it's probably more wishful thinking than fact, but theoretically I'm descended from Richard the Lionheart and Davy Crockett (my Mom's side, and if you knew my Mom, it's rather believable).
allright, it's 11 AM. my boyfriend's left for work and left the beer in my untrustworthy hands, along with his guitars. it's time to write this fraggin bitch right in the face!
im also officially of the boat now i think, so it's very much time for me to start gettin in the swing o' things again. (looks up n down thread) so uh…..hey, sweet thang.
Heya Pit! Back to stay I hope!
But what's not to like about the guy?Well… there was the fact that his take of on the old Norse Religion was pretty coloured by Christianity, so much so that he didn't see them as real "gods" anymore, so much as possible historical chieftains or something, among other things… So Saxo tends to be my preference in that respect. But that's just me :)
Snorri did contribute a lot to our knowledge of the mythology and culture though!
..have to do the Quackcast news post…
His theories make sense though. We know very little about the "Vanir" faith, yet there are references of a great battle between the two pantheons, eventually resulting in members of the Vanir gods and goddesses living amongst the Aesir. A theory proposes that these were originally two separate faiths and when the two worshiping groups met each other, there were some initial conflicts between them until the two faiths merged.But what's not to like about the guy?Well… there was the fact that his take of on the old Norse Religion was pretty coloured by Christianity, so much so that he didn't see them as real "gods" anymore, so much as possible historical chieftains or something, among other things… So Saxo tends to be my preference in that respect. But that's just me :)
Snorri did contribute a lot to our knowledge of the mythology and culture though!
It is well known that Snorri was a Christian but most of the Edda is based on stories that he collected from the few remaining farms that still practiced the old faith. Without that effort, most of those stories would have been lost forever.
Nonetheless, there are obvious Christian references in his work. Some raise an eyebrow over there being two distinct afterlives that were controlled by the goddess of death (not counting the awesome afterlife where you got to fight all day in massive battles all the time), where one of those world bears some similarities to the Christian hell.
The ending also seems to be awfully tainted of Christianity where a promise of a better world surfaces after the end of the old one, governed by a one true god.
Jaybus! I sure as hell hope you take after Snorri more than Egil!Would it really be so bad to take after a warrior poet? ;þ
"Thus spake my mother
That for me should they buy
A barque and beauteous oars
To go forth with vikings.
Stand in the stern,
Steer a dear vessel,
Hold course for a haven,
Hew down many foemen."
Egill Skallagrímsson - a response to his first murder, age 7.
The ending also seems to be awfully tainted of Christianity where a promise of a better world surfaces after the end of the old one, governed by a one true god.Yup. Prolly the worst part. Made the whole Ragnarock into a bit of a book of revaluations.
The idea that the Vanir are nature focussed gods and the Aesir are more war focussed gods is pretty integral, they're just so different and they don't make too much effort to integrate the two groups. And you can even imagine that before them the Giants were the earlier Proto-gods, like the Greek Titans in that mythology.
But imagining them as actual human representatives of different tribes seems a bit of a stretch… It's possible, but it's like imagining Zeus as a real historical figure. I just can't picture that… It's equally hard with Odin.
Robert E Howard had some entertaining stories taking Snorri's line of reasoning- having the Aesir and Vanir as two actual tribal groups migrating from Northern Asia into Scandinavia and fighting etc. Eventually giving rise to the later peoples… But then that tended to fit in a bit too neatly with ideas of eugenics that were so popular in the 1930s at just the wrong time. :(
Not that Howard was more of a racist than the average 1930's American, certainly not as much of a one as Lovecraft!
Would it really be so bad to take after a warrior poet? ;þ
]you pretty much answered your own question
Egill Skallagrímsson - . . . his first murder, age 7.
I read that saga like some kind of voyeur - just when I didn't think Egil could be any more far removed from being a humane human, there he'd go again.
Like: Egil notes that his band totally looted every single item of value from a village and no one was hurt. There is no honor, he claims. He goes back and creates Egil-style honor (that is, kill every man, woman, and child and burn the village)
Or: Egil notes that his sword does not touch his opponent as the two battle, therefore the opponent is obviously skilled in the magic arts. What's a Viking to do? Egil throws down his sword, charges the opponent, and bites him in the jugular. THAT takes care of that.
There's berserker, and then there's Egil
(Egil doing what Egil does)
There's berserker, and then there's Egil
He'd be proud to hear himself praised as greater than a berserker. Such is the way of things in war and no war is more horrible than that between clans and even worse within them.
The perfect mind of the man born to war and knowing very little else. Egil Skallagrimsson, makes you wonder what was dad like? Skalla the Grim? The Norse were supposedly fatalistic by nature now if they called someone grim he must have been really bad. The local SCA would have me believe these were the Good old Days.
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My family's lineage is chronicled in a dissertation going back all the way to the Norman Conquest. We were never produced anyone really famous but we were always there in the background. Walk-on roles and scene filling extras while the movers and shakers are in the foreground.
Some members of the family did marry into the Tudors back in the day, another died trying to find the Northeast Passage and one bought land in Virginia that is still named for the family.
The greatest part? In the American Revolution and American Civil War my branch of the family managed both times to pick the losing side and lose everything.
But then the ancestors also chose the wrong sides in the Wars of the Roses and the English Civil War. lol!
you pretty much answered your own questionI know. That was the point ;)
A colorful man, my ancestor was.
Egil Skallagrimsson, makes you wonder what was dad like? Skalla the Grim? The Norse were supposedly fatalistic by nature now if they called someone grim he must have been really bad.While I don't want to knock down the accomplishments of Skallagrímur, I feel obligated to point out that you're thinking in a wrong language now. Skallagrímur's birth name is just "Grímur", meaning "A masked man", although older translations of the name might suggest a ghost or a similarly hidden creature. However, he suffered from acute hair loss early in his life and gained the nicknamed Skalla-Grímur, "Skalli" meaning "Baldness"
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Hey Gullas! Guess what I found out? You're my fifth cousin, twice removed. That means that your great, great, great, great, great, grandmother was my great, great, great grandaunt.
I figured out the proper terms, by checking out this chart:
My mind is going where I never thought it would go before… for instance…
What if that mighty lion compoased robot Voltron was piloted by Australians? What sort of enemies would they face? How would they socialize? For those of you who don't know who that robot is…
Youbube Video: Forming Voltron
From what I can see, an Australian Voltron probably won't be formed by lions. Most likely Kangaroos. And it won't use a "Blazing Sword". Rather… it'll probably use some form of Mighty Kick which would have the same effect. Not sure if kangaroo use their tails as weapons though…
Why do I think of Australians more than anyone else? They're the next major continent to me, but it's boring to think of Asians piloting giant robots since they do it all the time (they even built one in Japan, with the Chinese following shortly with their knockoff version of it)…
Ha ha. I expected you'd react to that.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu…
You… You crafty son of a bitch with your fantastic viking genes!!
D:
Not ONLY are you the reletive of the greatest Medieval poet, you're also descendent from Snorri and Egil!?
MUST… CONTATIN…JEALOUSY… AND… HATRED…
*breathe in breathe out*
And here I am with only a tiny shred of a link with vikings who thought: "Fuck Denmark, let's invade Scotland" With names like "Holm" and "Wardrop". My lineage is shit! I've got poncey Enlgishmen on one side, who did nothing but make apple cider and partied in Cornwall, and on the other side I've got some bog Irish, some cockney English, some Scots whose adress in the census during the 1800's was "The Old Bailey" in England, and ONE.
DANISH.
SAILOR.
Who drank rum and widdled things on the porch was called Something-a-rather Holm and married something-a-rather Wardrop who was apparently also Danish in some wierd connection and had lots of little kiddies.
@OnlyFools: Those English, Irish and Norse were awfully tight there for awhile — you may well have a drop or two of that Wiking stuff. But from what I've read, you don't want to be sportin your Danish blood in front of some of the Viking clans. Egil in particular had a great fondness for Danish decimation
@bravo: hmph - did not say Egil was greater than a berserker - he was just in a category by himself. And it's not warfare by any description to kill your father's favorite farmhand, at the dinner table, because you're pissed at your Dad for not letting you go on a trip with your big brother. And your Dad wouldn't let you go because you have a bit of a temper, as evidenced by killing someone at age 7 because they wouldn't let you play the big-boy games.
OK - so now I sound like Tim The Enchanter "Well, that's no ordinary rabbit."
— (bandaged wildebeest)
There's only one good thing about being sick, and that's when the doctor totally validates every little moan and groan that you've been experiencing. So the conjunctivitis has just about cleared, but for four days I've had really bad ear aches and sinus pressure. I saw a new doctor today. We went down the list: allergies? smoking? blah blah blah. Then: "so let's take a look".
She looked in the good ear. "Well that seems just fine" Then she looked in the bad ear. "Oh MY! Oh, I'm probably hurting you! How long has this been going on?"
And it was wonderful. None of this "oh, you're probably just imagining it" because this time - even though it was "only in my head", she saw it.
I should be up to par in about a week. Oh, and those ear washings with water? Not always a good thing.
The funniest part:
I told my husband about it and he was genuinely concerned, and was ready to run off and pick up the antibiotics on the spot. I told him to wait for another 2 hours when he had to drop our son off at a meeting (I mean, 2 hours on top of 4 days? who cares).
So he came back from dropping our son off. And he had gone to the pharmacy to pick up a birthday card. But he forgot the prescriptions. he was totally embarrassed - had to laugh.
@OnlyFools: Those English, Irish and Norse were awfully tight there for awhile — you may well have a drop or two of that Wiking stuff. But from what I've read, you don't want to be sportin your Danish blood in front of some of the Viking clans. Egil in particular had a great fondness for Danish decimation
We permenatnely suffered from TMS (Tiny Man Syndrome) as the Danish were the shortest people in Europe at the time, but also the most feared, now they're the second tallest on average after those dasterdy Dutch. Odd.
Whereas I, have remained short. Looks like the only thing I inherited from my Danish Rellos was their short height and short temper.
And fondess for invasion.
Also, Its good that your Conjunctivitis is clearing up! But that sucks that you're feeling sick, again, I hope you get better soon!
All this talk of genealogy reminds me, I had some elderly relative somewhere who was pretty creative with her genealogy, and my grandmother believed every word of it, so I was nonironically told we were related to the Jersey Devil as well as being descended from English pirates.
I must admit the resemblance is uncanny, but…
everyone has a claim to fame. except me.
On the irish side of me family (my dad's side) We can trace back about 1k years or so. Where we were royalty. Then within 100 years of our earliest date-able lineage, our family was nothing but a bunch of thieves. Apparently our name even became synonymous with people stealing horses specifically.
That explains why i'm always tempted to grab the nearest goods and bolt.
*edit*
I forgot! one of this side of the family assassinated a vice president!…wait.
*end edit*
on my mother's side, i've only been able to trace back about 150 or so years. All living in indiana. (it's such a common name that anything outside of indiana, is pretty much unprovable relationships). However, the furthest back relative i was able to find, shares the same day of birth as I. i always thought that was cool.
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I watched desert punk. I was excited. then i saw the end. it was meh.
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It was 100*f yesterday, today it was 101*f, tomorrow is supposed to be the same. Thursday has a high of 68*F planned. awesome.
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