c/david-graeber
Lectures, interviews, and talks by David Graeber — anthropologist, anarchist, author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Bullshit Jobs, and The Dawn of Everything.
…side of the same thing that I like to quote is there's a Icelandic saga about two Viking named, if I remember, Einar and Egil, who were both poets, and one was old and one was young, still writing, and used to sit around making kennings together. And…
…The first one sees it and says, oh, okay. Oh, okay, almost done. That's all right. Says, you know, what is this that your friend Egil gave this to you? So he expects me to stay up all night composing a poem to thank him for his generosity, to hell…
…about this and comparing it to a piece I read about Vikings in one of the Icelandic sagas that were two Vikings, Einar and Egil, if I remember. One was a semi-retired Viking and the other one was still doing raids. They were also poets and they liked…
…they liked to sit around writing poetry together. One day, I think Einar was the name of the younger one, came to visit Egil. Egil was out, so he left him a gift, this beautiful shield, this magnificent object that no one had ever seen anything like…
…liked to sit around writing poetry together. One day, I think Einar was the name of the younger one, came to visit Egil. Egil was out, so he left him a gift, this beautiful shield, this magnificent object that no one had ever seen anything like it.…