Akigka

@akigka
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Áki Guðni Karlsson
About meFolklorist/ethnologist and middle-aged mariner currently working on human-microbial interaction, place-making and everyday heritage.
Interestsfolklore, material culture, sailing, food, art, travel, my beloved Firenze
Fieldwork in one photo
Thesis delivered today. Now my fate is in my opponent's hands. Trying on my new tweed regardless.
Winner of the 2025 Nordic Council Music Prize: Pianist Víkingur Ólafsson

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Last year's autumn colors on campus. Winter is returning to Iceland this week with the first frosts.
The weather for each of the 12 days of Xmas predicts the weather of each month of the new year. A folk belief imported via Danish and German almanacs #weatherlore #folklore #icelandicfolklore
https://icelandicfolklore.is/can-we-predict-the-weather-this-year-based-on-christmas/
Can we predict the weather this year based on Christmas? – Icelandic Folklore

A lemon is all you need to get a multicolored #mold . Anyone know the #urbanlegend that eating mold is good for you because it contains #penicillin ?

CfP for this #sief party in #Brno next year just out. We'll have something #sour, something #pickled, things #fermented not too fickle

https://www.siefhome.org/congresses/sief2023/cfp

SIEF2023 Brno: Living Uncertainty

16th Congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore: Brno, Czech Republic: 7-10 June 2023