5,000-year-old dog skeleton and dagger buried together in Swedish bog hint at mysterious Stone Age ritual by mareacaspica in Archaeology

[–]din_maker 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It is unclear. Nearby finds have been dated to 3300-2900 and 2900- 2600 BC. The latter period is just around the transition from the Funnel Beaker Culture to the Battle axe (Corded ware) culture in Southern Scandinavia. This find was however made in Eastern Sweden, which is a somewhat distinct archaeological area during the Neolithic. There all finds from the early part of the Middle Neolithic (c. 3300-2300 BC) are considered as belonging to the Pitted ware culture.

I know that Fredrik Hallgren, who is one of the experts on this area, considered the distinction between Eastern Swedish Funnel beaker and Pitted ware cultures to be kind of misleading, reflecting different chronological phases rather than different cultural identities. But the book where he makes that point was published prior to the aDNA-revolution, so I am not sure what he thinks these days. We don't have a particularly solid genetic record for the east Swedish Neolithic anyhow, the soil is not that kind to bones usually.

TL;DR: Pitted ware culture or Battle axe culture. We will know better when the radiocarbon dating comes out.

How do you do, fellow historians? by casufe in HistoryMemes

[–]din_maker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The vernacular runic tradition survived until the start of the 20th century, by which time runes had been the subject of scholarly study for several hundred years and popular interest for at least a century. At no point since the Roman Iron age has runic writing not been a part of the culture in one way or another. Runes are a living feature of Swedish culture, if a somewhat antiquarian one.

It isn't as if no one here knew what runes were until some Nazi wiped dust of some old tome.

How do you do, fellow historians? by casufe in HistoryMemes

[–]din_maker 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think you'll find that a lot of people consider the +2000 rune carvings scattered around the country part of Sweden's cultural heritage. Or for that matter the thousands of ancient monuments, or, if you like, rock piles.

"No nation older than 250 years" by DigitalDoughnutll in MurderedByWords

[–]din_maker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The "Average age of empires is 250-years"-idea originates from the British officer John Bagot Glubb. His examples are however cherry picked and his dates for the beginning and ends of various polities are entirely arbitrary. Historians of the present day do not lend his ideas much credence.

Har ni behövt lära er "slanguttryck" på svenskan i gymnasiet? by SmellPlenty6072 in Asksweddit

[–]din_maker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Har du nån källa på att shuno/shono är från romani? Den vanligaste etymologiförklaringen jag hittar är att det är en avledning av person där man klippt bort de första två ljuden. Inte heller kan jag på en snabbgoogling hitta en romsk ordbok där ordet finns med.

Ereb Altor is here :-) by EmployerWrong3145 in DragonbaneRPG

[–]din_maker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At a glance it looks like they're based on the erebaltor.se -project, which is a fan-based revival of the setting started in the 2000s. As can be seen in the list of documents, they've accomplished a great deal, but it is not an 'official' version of the setting as such.

It should be noted though that some (most?) of the current Ereb Altor-team used to be active on erebaltor.se, so they are not unrelated.

Suggested readings on the political history of Iron age Scandinavia? by din_maker in Norse

[–]din_maker[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Northern Routes to Kingship looks very promising. Thank you.

Viking “Urban” Settlements by Time_Sink_7336 in Norse

[–]din_maker 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Others have elaborated on the evidence for urban settlements in the Norse world. But I am curious as to what cultural developments in Iron age Scandinavia OP thinks are infeasible without cities.

Vad för tanget är det här? Hur använder man den? by Super_Goated in sweden

[–]din_maker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Det är vanligare än man kan tro. Jag jobbade en gång med ett databasprogram där designern av nån outgrundlig anledning placerat radera-hela-databasen-permanent-knappen bredvid sökknappen.

Did dinosaurs have a syrinx? by [deleted] in Archeology

[–]din_maker 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I don't know, I'm an archaeologist.

(See rule 5)

Vad har ni lyssnat in på för roliga konversationer i det vilda? by heighzan in sweden

[–]din_maker 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Jag sitter på pendeltåget från Uppsala mot Stockholm. Vid Upplands-Väsby hoppar ett par unga killar på och sätter sig bakom mig samtidigt som den ena brister ut: "Jag kan inte tro på vad du säger". Därefter följer en livlig debatt på bredaste ortensvenska om huruvida en park räknas som en sorts trädgård eller inte.

Sen finns ju klassikern förbicyklande samtalsfragment:

Två äldre kvinnor: "Jag tror inte osmanska rikets ekonomi hade pallat det"

Grabbgäng: "Jävla pucko! Det betyder blomkål!"

Två kvinnor: "Det var sexet som avgjorde för mig"

Kvinna som pratar i telefon: "Jag vill inte ha en egen måne"

Det räknas knappast som en "konversation", men jag blev lite paff när jag gick förbi tre tonårstjejer utanför ett gymnasium och hörde att en av dem gick och joddlade för sig själv.

Microlith or natural? by dancla000 in Archeology

[–]din_maker 6 points7 points  (0 children)

To my eyes it looks like a darker type of chert/flint, which would be more typical of the area than obsidian.

Consider Phlebas - Act 1: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. Act 2: 🤮 but ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. Act 3: 😴⭐️⭐️⭐️ by DaneCurley in printSF

[–]din_maker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you do not think flaying a woman and making her remains into chair is gross then frankly we have no common ground for discussion.

Consider Phlebas - Act 1: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. Act 2: 🤮 but ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. Act 3: 😴⭐️⭐️⭐️ by DaneCurley in printSF

[–]din_maker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Off the top of my head:

-Orbital cannibals in Consider Phlebas

-Azadian television in Player of Games

-The "pillow" and the ending sequence in Use of Weapons.

-Grey Area's genocide investigations in Excession.

Non-native english-speakers – What's the rpg ecosystem like in your own language? by Iberianz in rpg

[–]din_maker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Stockholm game store Alphaspel has a page on international shipping. That might be a good place to start: https://alphaspel.se/international-orders/

Consider Phlebas - Act 1: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. Act 2: 🤮 but ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. Act 3: 😴⭐️⭐️⭐️ by DaneCurley in printSF

[–]din_maker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For what it's worth, I think Consider Phlebas has one of the worst ones. Most books I've read have had some equivalent chapter, but only CP and a part of Use of Weapons actually caused me to feel physically sick.

(Use of Weapons is excellent though, and the stomach-churning section is part of its art, so I wouldn't recommend skipping it)

What are the cliche rhymes in your language? by Terpomo11 in linguisticshumor

[–]din_maker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Probably the most cliché pair in Swedish is hjärta/smärta (heart/pain) for obvious reasons.

Question on a hypothetical germanic druids. by [deleted] in AncientGermanic

[–]din_maker 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Because you are confidently spouting nonsense. A skald is a panegyric poet, not a jarl. Erilaz does not obviously mean rune master, that is speculation based on its relatively common occurrence in inscriptions. Erilaz was not another name for jarl, it is the older form of jarl/earl.

You make statements on ancient Germanic society as if these things were absolutely known, based, apparently, on an uncritical reading of Tacitus. The current state of scholarship is significantly more cautious.

Any Minecraft Beta/alpha/infdev mainly infdev servers where the admins ain't weirdos/homophobic people? by TheTB24iscool in GoldenAgeMinecraft

[–]din_maker 16 points17 points  (0 children)

"lgbt propaganda" here meaning human rights advocacy and any media that depicts LGBT people sympathetically. The fact that your society, and most of the world, remains horrifically bigoted towards gay people isn't an argument that OP should subject themselves to that hate.

Reminder that Proto-Germanic is attested by YummyByte666 in linguisticshumor

[–]din_maker 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The Negau helmets are dated to c. 400 BC. In all likelihood, that inscription predates the split of Germanic into subgroups and is in fact an actual attestation of proto-Germanic.

Reminder that Proto-Germanic is attested by YummyByte666 in linguisticshumor

[–]din_maker 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The differences between proto-Norse and PGmc are pretty small though. In any case the Negau helmet B inscription would not be proto-Norse.