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It wasn't me that decided it would say that, it was the translator, I just filled in the blanks. Besides, a lot of people originally from the North like to say how big and blonde and hairy they are.
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Bare-armed? Sometimes. Hairy? Well, not so much. But I drink mead, so that should count for something.
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My maternal grandmother's family is Swedish. And my husband is half Norwegian as these things are reckoned. I am not particularly hairy, though, and am far too self-consious to go completley bare-armed.
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quote:But I drink mead, so that should count for something.
Do you at least drink it savagely? Maybe fresh squeezed from the teats of a magic goat or something?
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I drink it out of wooden goblets. Once I even drank it while I was eating ribs. And you can't eat ribs not-savagely. That's just how it is.
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Well, wood is good, but I don't know about goblets. Get a rough hewn wooden tankard, though, and between it and the rib eating you'll be in like Flynn.
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Oh, I'm sure there are some folks that neatly cut the meat off the bone with a knife and fork and eat it delicately, dabbing their lips with the corner of their napkin after every bite and holding out their pinkies as they sip their beverage.
But they're pansies! I tear off the flesh with my teeth and gnaw the bone when I'm done. I'm a Northman, by Odin's beard!
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quote: Oh, I'm sure there are some folks that neatly cut the meat off the bone with a knife and fork and eat it delicately, dabbing their lips with the corner of their napkin after every bite and holding out their pinkies as they sip their beverage.
Heh, I do that sometimes, when I'm in a particularly dainty mood. It also prevents meat from sticking between my teeth and braces, which is not always the most attractive look...
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It may not be attractive, but if the meat is rare enough it's certainly going to be a savage look!
You're right about the hollow drinking horn, by the way--I was seduced into counting a wooden drinking vessel by the phrase "rough hewn", but hollow horns are definitely where it's at.
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Ah, but my northern blood is muted by the Mongrel Brit in me, so the savage bloodied teeth look is not what I am going for. All that rain has diluted my savage Norman, Anglo-Saxon nature and made it soggy...
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But if you're putting in the effort to have your teeth straightened you can't be *too* British.
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Oh, I thought the "you'd be wrong" thing was about the ribs. It didn't have a quote, originally.
*wonders how to say "my bad" in Old Norse*
In any case, braces are no excuse! Bloody Normans, getting the mother island all Frenchified. Pansy Norman-lovers, with their "napkins" and their "wine glasses" and their "forks". Real Saxons don't care if they get meat in their braces. It just means you can have leftovers for later!
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Yeah, I was posting too slowly at that point to keep up with the thread, so it was pretty ambiguous what I was referring to until I edited in the quote.
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quote:Bloody Normans, getting the mother island all Frenchified.
You do know, of course, that the Normans were actually transplanted Vikings. (hence the name) Not very French at all, except linguistically.
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I doesn't seem to be very many people from Scandinavia here. To bad. (as you would guess, I'm from Sweden) Oh, and nice translations And here comes another one; Och om ni undrar, så är jag och Mahabarata tvillingbröder.
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