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.
…the other 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…
…no one had ever seen anything like it. He'd got it on a raid. He left it as a present because the guy wasn't there. Einar comes home four hours later, sees this thing hanging there, says, oh my god, what is that? You know, your friend Aga left it as…
…thinking 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…
…the other one was still doing raids. They were also poets and 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,…
…off, about four hours later, Yagiel comes home and says, my God, what's that? And the thralls all say, well, you know, it's your friend. Einar came over and gave it to you, said it was a present. So he looks at it and said, oh, so I suppose he now…