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Another Sunday at the #OurWawar and @k_rupal is making a hyperlocal breakfast with eggs, butter, sourdough from within a 5 mile radius. And a fire using wood within a 5 meter radius. 😇 
A worm just fell off a tree into my open mug of gin and my weird brain goes, abeyaar worm, that's not tequila! 😂😂😂
Bootlegger gin, in case you're wondering
My good deed for the weekend was introducing @curiousgawker to #Norsemen, arguably the most LOL-funny show in Netflix history. Vikings talking like overly polite modern day Norwegians. This hilariously addresses the fact that real Vikings didn't actually have horned helmets.
This scene always gives me tummy ache 😂😂😂 #Norsemen.
When we first watched the show, they kept talking about going to "the thing" and they eventually went to "the thing" in the season finale. Which is like a tribal congress. We haven't seen the Vikings show so we thought calling it "the thing" was a joke.
(Narrator: it's not)
(Narrator: it's not)
In the early part of the first millennium CE, the #IndoEuropean language known as Proto-#Germanic diverged into an East branch (which included #Gothic) and a Northwest branch.
Northwest then split into West and North branches when Proto-#Norse developed in #Scandinavia.
Northwest then split into West and North branches when Proto-#Norse developed in #Scandinavia.
Until the 8th century, #Germanic #languages, including Proto-#Norse, were written in Elder Futhark, the earliest #runic #alphabet.
The name #Futhark comes from the initial phonemes in the names of the first six #runes:
ᚠ ᚢ ᚦ ᚨ ᚱ ᚲ
F U Þ A R K
The name #Futhark comes from the initial phonemes in the names of the first six #runes:
ᚠ ᚢ ᚦ ᚨ ᚱ ᚲ
F U Þ A R K
By the beginning of the #Viking Age around 800 CE, Proto-#Norse had evolved into Old Norse, and #Scandinavia's writing system transitioned from the 24 #runes of Elder #Futhark to Younger Futhark's 16 runes.
The #Swedish #Sparlösa #Runestone from ~800 CE features both #alphabets.
The #Swedish #Sparlösa #Runestone from ~800 CE features both #alphabets.
