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tofallthroughthesky:

wisdomofamustache:

guilty-daydreamer:

bluntasaurus-sex:

dameofspace:

pandyssian:

OH MY GOD APPARENTLY TAKING AN ARROW TO THE KNEE WAS AN OLD NORDIC SLANG FOR GETTING MARRIED 

I THOUGHT THAT ALL THOSE GUYS IN SKYRIM HAD LITERALLY BEEN SHOT IN THEIR KNEES WITH ARROWS BUT I GUESS NOT

And at that moment, the foundation of that entire meme became something like this:

my life is a lie.

“I used to be and adventurer like you, but then I got married.”

IT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE.

Oh my god I told my boyfriend about this and he just looked at me like I’d crushed his hopes and dreams alskdfja

One of the guys I follow is Nordic, so when he heard about this supposed slang, he decided to do some asking around and also do a bit of research. He couldn’t find a single thing proving this.

No wonder - I study Medieval texts and there’s not a single occasion that I would have come across this saying. Furthermore, Medieval people did not write in “slang”.

Marriages in Viking era did not work the way they do now. The bride’s opinion was not needed so proposing to her only happened via her father - and usually not by the groom either but a relative or a good friend of his. If the father accepted he then either asked the daughter what she thought of the match or simply informed her she was to be married with dude X. Oftentimes even the bride’s flat out refusal to be married to the guy would be completely ignored if the father wanted to make the match just the same.

By the way, there’s at least one known case where the father actually accepts the girl’s refusal, but the groom-to-be then comes over to meet the girl and manages to talk her into accepting the marriage (by being awesomely goodlooking and sexy)(she looks past his mother being a slave, which was her initial reason to refuse him)(Ólafur Peacock and Egill Skalla-Grímssons daughter Þorgerður).

In no text does anyone get on one knee. Why would they, they’re not asking the girl. They’re not even asking to marry someone, they’re asking for someone else.

mimii-leijon asked: heyyyy found you c:

So it begins.

letthemhavepie:

folie-a-tout:

heyaeya:

dameofspace:

pandyssian:

OH MY GOD APPARENTLY TAKING AN ARROW TO THE KNEE WAS AN OLD NORDIC SLANG FOR GETTING MARRIED 

I THOUGHT THAT ALL THOSE GUYS IN SKYRIM HAD LITERALLY BEEN SHOT IN THEIR KNEES WITH ARROWS BUT I GUESS NOT

And at that moment, the foundation of that entire meme became something like this:

THAT EXPLAINS WHY MEN GO DOWN ON ONE KNEE WHEN THEY PROPOSE

OH MY GOD

I STILL WANT SOURCES FOR THIS FACT

THERE PROBABLY ISN’T GOING TO BE ANY

THIS IS ONE OF THOSE “LET’S SEE IF TUMBLR WILL BELIEVE THIS LOL” -THINGS

IT’S HILARIOUS HOW PEOPLE THINK MEDIEVAL NORDIC PEOPLE PROPOSED ON ONE KNEE BECAUSE 100% CERTAINTY THEY DIDN’T, AND ANYWAY THEY ASKED THE GIRL’S DAD NOT THE GIRL

USUALLY THE PERSON ASKING WASN’T THE GROOM EITHER BUT A RELATIVE OR A FRIEND OF THEIRS

THE GIRL’S OPINION DID NOT MATTER A WHOOT (unless she was a widow)

lolitafriendlyreminders:

Friendly reminder that the most scandalous thing that you’ve ever done was not wearing a blouse under your JSK ✿◕‿◕✿

#scandalous shoulders #harlots everywhere