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Up on the housetop Sleipnir paws,Snow lumps under horse-spider's claws.Down through smoke stacks, with lots of poise,Allfather, the Nisse ones; yuletide noise. https://t.co/ejoZimkrGl

The sound of Sleipnir tapping it's claws, btw:https://t.co/N361aFeEGE

The little drummer boy was a mating call for Sleipnir.No one talks about this.https://t.co/L4QEhuA4kn

All I want for Christmas is a horny leggy boi.https://t.co/s3juJwH4vy

TFW you smash a poor giant's head in after your adopted brother fucks his horse, Svaðilfari, all night. The giant fails to build the wall you were going to give your dad's concubine away for (but only because you asked him to). TL:DR: Your brother hornt.https://t.co/NkC1H3O40N

"The law required that walls be the shoulder-height of a man and five feet thick at the base (Grágás K 181). Maintaining the walls was so important the law code specified that three months out of each year were to be set aside for the maintenance of walls"https://t.co/oZrgnwuyD2 https://t.co/L07ed5Ew0q


Looking up Viking wheelbarrows because of a neat parallel I saw while exploring if anyone knows what a haying scythe looked like.https://t.co/MiEOrKzSg8