This brings up something interesting and somewhat unrelated, namely that the comic book superheroes and supervillains operate in an extremely mutualistic manner.
This historical golden nugget could be used to underline this, adding more depth to comic books.

I’m ovulating, and just like you i do not have the plumbing to do so.

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That’s a “No True Scotsman” fallacy. ^_^

George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Fire and Ice universe is hinted to be world on the inside of a sphere, which is why Game of Throne’s opening sequence displays a a fancy mechanical map built inside a sphere.

If i find or make one, you’ll be the 4th to know. I have 3 Whovian friends i need to do spacetime donuts around, before i start the actual traveling. ^_^

Borders move a lot of over time and many of those areas have been Danish (in terms of culture and/or nationality) for most of recorded history, so while saying your roots are “Scandinavian” is correct, they’re also fairly Danish.
Things like changing cultural identities (all Viking era Scandinavians called themselves…

Being in the same situation as you, the “curse” doesn’t bother me much either. But both of our’s ability to compensate doesn’t matter, as the curse isn’t based on poweruser reviews.

Yes, leather armor is surprisingly absent from archaeological digs and literature, but there are plenty of indirect evidence...

Achievement unlocked: Realizing the Microsoft Curse.

The bane of internet conversation will always be the lack of vocal cues. ^_^

One the first account, “+ULFBERHT+” is by all accounts I’ve ever read the spelling on authentic blades.
And the biggest hint that the name isn’t Frankish is “ulf”, since Frankish spelled “wolf” as “varf”, while Norse spelled “wolf” as “ülfr”.

First off, I’d like to say that I’m not arguing over the name of Frankia nor the location of where it was likely forged. I just prefer the k spelling of Frankia, since only the Latin “Franci”, the modern English “Franconia” and the Dutch “Francken” includes the usage of c’s.
And i find it’s more precise to mention the…

Whether they were forged or stamped is a matter of terminology. We’d call it forged here in modern Scandinavia, since the indentations would be milled, filled or stamped, before inserting pieces of metal, heating the entire thing and then hammering the pieces flatter to fill the indentation. Then you’d finish the rest…

Indeed, there are plenty of reasons to assume a Frankish origin, including how close “berht” is to the Frankish “bert” (and the Germanic “berg” or the Norse “Bjarg”) and the fact that it obviously seems to be part of the Germanic language family (which Frankish belonged to). But none of those explains what the meaning…

And Wikipedia could be correct, but since the name isn’t using Frankish words or Frankish grammar, the conclusion is based on the Taunus area (then in Frankia and now part of Germany), hypothesized to be the origin of the forging of the blade.
But since the material’s origins, the blade’s smiths, how it got into Viking…

You forgot “BENO ME FECIT”.

You might want to ask for your money back, then... ^_^

No worries. ^_^
I was just trying to correct what misunderstandings and misspellings might arise from minor things. After all, the same damn line in an old saga was mistranslated twice, creating the separate myths that vikings wore horned helmets and drank out of skulls (both from a line describing them as wearing…

I know I’m just splitting hairs, but only fake Ulfberhts were fake. To us, the hundreds of years of rust damage makes authentic and fake versions look alike, but during their own time, the fake versions would have featured misspellings and a smooth texture, while the authentic ones featured correct spelling and the…