And when you do actually make it to the shops on Saturday, you still end up queuing behind a bunch of pensioners who could have done their shopping during the week.

I've always wondered what the people of Bern think of the eponymous cheese-filled sausages they eat in Austria (for that matter Frankfurt or Vienna - are sausages always named after places they're clearly not from?)

But we do our best anyway!

Such a great poem! The loneliness of an earthquake- and eruption-causing giant in early Iceland.
(Skaldic Project's stanza of the day is random btw)

These dictionaries are all available at their rightful locations, e.g. www.edd.uio.no/perl/search/... (Fritzner) - and via @onp.ku.dk, with permission and with attribution.

But a good way to research a topic in this way is to use the definition search in @onpdict.bsky.social and type in 'penis' - lots of matches there to delve into!

Not sure that they are, actually, but I could be wrong

Mate, if there were tires in Egill’s time he would already have used this one - kenninglexicon.org/m.php?p=kenn...

I've also noticed that the charters are down or barely responding

Seems to be 19th century, at least in print ritmalssafn.arnastofnun.is/daemi/598455

'man eater' would capture the innuendo better than 'cannibal'?