Árni:
... and if we're about to start swapping Deeply Obscure Saga References, was
it a fishbone or a brooch that the Jomsviking on the log used to prove or
disprove the existence of an afterlife?
<snarl>
Starkatther
{who doesn't do thorns}
(Bengtsson in _The Long Ships_ has it as a brooch, but I think the saga
itself has fishbone. Or have I got this ass-backwards? Heavens to Odin,
and joking aside, I do defer to Árni in this area.
Njal.)
... did a haiku once, on the Icelandic hardmen mental boys -- bugger me if I
can remember it now, but it featured Starkadder, Egil, and Njal's eldest boy
...
CP3O
Skarphethin, I now remember, dat wuz whot he wuz colled ...
(Well, yes, obviously Árni knows this, but for the rest of youz ignorant
sods ...)
Darth Vader.
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