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12 Mar 2020 3 minute read 2 comments Nifty Buckles
Most folks have heard of the tale of Robin Hood that dates all the way back to the 13th century. There seems to be a debate between scholars of modern times if dear old Robin Hood ever existed eventhough there are hundreds of ballads that beg to diff...
20 Feb 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Nifty Buckles
Famous Icelandic artist Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval (1885-1972). He is well known for his landscape paintings with an abstract or cubist touch with symbolist elements mixing myths and elves into the landscape. Below 2,000 kr. banknote with Kjarval’s...
19 Dec 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Nifty Buckles
Yule Folklore Nisse of (Norway) Tonttu-Ukko of (Finland) also known as Tomte in Sweden is a tiny elf or wight identified with the winter solstice & Yule season. Nisse have four fingers, has pointed ears with eyes reflecting light in the dark, like t...
5 Dec 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Nifty Buckles
Today is December the 5th 2019. #KrampusKnacht or #KrampusNight. I'm sure most folks by now have pulled out their Bitcoin and crypto currency and shopped for Yule and Christmas gifts on Black Friday to catch the great sales. I would like to share th...
3 Oct 2019 2 minute read 1 comment Nifty Buckles
Halloween/Samhain is close at hand and many of you may have heard of Hell the underworld in the Bible but have you heard of the Norse goddess Hel? According to Norse mythology the trickster god Loki and the giantess Angrboða birthed a daughter and na...
8 Aug 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Nifty Buckles
I always found an ever abundance of nettles during the summer months when I was a wee child. The ones that really stuck with me, (pun intended,) was the stinging nettle Urtica diotica that I would eventually run into while playing hide and seek, or t...
