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Cake day: January 28th, 2025

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  • That’s real. Vikings did a lot of breading and added beads to beards and hair. They also sometimes shaved the sides and had asymmetric haircuts too. We know the hair styles from their graves. The length of hair varied. They let them grow out and cut them when they were long enough. You could do a lot of things with such long hair.

    The viking hair styles you see in the movies are mostly real.

    But vikings did not have dreadlocks. They probably didn’t know about them.
    This is wrong:

    And this is wrong too:

    They also often wore necklaces and wristbands with runes made of silver, iron or wood. Something like this:

    This was to either show your wealth or as an amulet. The futhark (runes) were not just an alphabet they also were magical characters. Each rune had its own special meaning.
    For example ᚠ (fehu, engl. cattle) stood for wealth, abundance and security. You wore that rune if you wanted that. And smiths added runes to tools and weapons to add magical powers to them.











  • for me it’s the loss of joy.

    Same for me. I just don’t feel entertained anymore.
    Current video games are all stupid. Current tv series and movies are stupid too. What do I do? What can I do?

    Currently I can only relax and have some fun by reading fantasy stories. Everything else is literally not bearable anymore.

    I hope to go on my first week long bike packing tour in early summer when it’ll be warm enough for camping. It’s going to be my first long camping tour. Just to do something completely different I never did before. I fear I’ll go crazy if I don’t do something like that.

    I saw a small report about a retired woman walking (!) with a donkey (!) through the country. She did 650 km last year which is impressive for a 70 year old. Currently she’s staying at a camping site where they keep donkeys because it’s too cold and her donkey needs contact to other donkeys from time to time. Incredible stuff!

    These aren’t insurmountable problems, but yeah.

    They way you are describing it points to you having depression. You should visit a doctor and talk about it. Depression is actually an illness that could cost you your life (by lowering your instinct of self preservation and sometimes outright ignoring it).