tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422935148755187067.post1731604348765227679..comments2024-03-21T12:27:14.795+00:00Comments on Norse and Viking Ramblings: Coursing Through the Deepest SnowViqueenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05144146397028019725noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422935148755187067.post-59840276204549631142013-03-23T20:53:01.533+00:002013-03-23T20:53:01.533+00:00See http://www.egil.nottingham.ac.uk/texts/milp9/v...See http://www.egil.nottingham.ac.uk/texts/milp9/view.phpViqueenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05144146397028019725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422935148755187067.post-78118598791409711072013-03-21T20:55:00.462+00:002013-03-21T20:55:00.462+00:00That's lovely too, thanks, JPG!That's lovely too, thanks, JPG!Viqueenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05144146397028019725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422935148755187067.post-65518382668615624312013-03-21T20:48:34.237+00:002013-03-21T20:48:34.237+00:00Oooh, lovely. I was just looking at Arngrímur Jóns...Oooh, lovely. I was just looking at Arngrímur Jónsson's account of Iceland in Hakluyt's Voyages (from the end of the C16th), and got lost amid all the other gems -- not least the references to Konungs skuggsjá, and the 'miracles of water and aire this master of fragments hath gathered together into his looking glasse'. Hakluyt's slightly sniffy rendering of the description of skiing in his medieval source is wonderful: <br /><br />'The hunters of Norway ... are so expert to 'tame' wood (for so he speaketh very improperly, whereas vnto wood neither life nor taming can be ascribed) that wooden pattens of eight elnes long being bound to the soles of their feet do cary them with so great celeritie euen vpon hie mountaines, that they cannot be outrun, either by the swiftnes of hounds and deere, or yet by the flying of birds'.jpgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422935148755187067.post-40158316998935306382013-03-21T19:35:06.025+00:002013-03-21T19:35:06.025+00:00Commuter skis! I love it.
--BetshildaCommuter skis! I love it.<br /><br />--BetshildaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com