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TIL that one of the names in Old Norse texts for the god Tyr (who got his hand heroically bitten off by Fenrir the Wolf) is...

... "Wolf Leftovers"

Norsemen, masters of the SICK BURN

@TarkabarkaHolgy gotta love the old norse sense of humour :D where did you find that?

@SaveTheOkapi In an academic book on runic amulets :D

@TarkabarkaHolgy ah the one with the fart charm?

@SaveTheOkapi Yep! Runic Amulets and Magic Objects, by Mindy MacLeod and Bernard Mees

@SaveTheOkapi @TarkabarkaHolgy As in, a charm that’s powered by farts, stops farting entirely, gives one’s farts special powers, or…?

@TarkabarkaHolgy I mean, I loved the Lokasenna because it’s basically a series of sick burns. 🔥

@aprilfollies Yepp :D And there are some great lines in the Jómsviking Saga too...

@TarkabarkaHolgy Yay, new reading material! Thanks!😊

@TarkabarkaHolgy
All the Norse gods called Sleipnir the eight legged hose 'Slippy' behind his back. 😎

@TarkabarkaHolgy I told my myth-loving kid about that and she laughed and said I would have been Wolf Poo

@TarkabarkaHolgy Eat your heart out, Loki 🔥

@TarkabarkaHolgy I am mosquito leftover.