I am not going to lie, I day is going
to be short. My oldest daughter had a doctors appointment today and
my youngest daughter had a German Honor Society thing, so my time is
limited, it's 11:31 now and I am not sure I'll get this up before
midnight.
I is for Iðunn, a goddess of the
Aesir, she is the keeper of the apples of youth. That's a pretty
important job, since the gods would otherwise grow old and die.
I is for Irminsul, the great world
pillar, sacred to the Saxons, that Charlemagne destroyed in July of
772 AD.
I is for Islam, the name of the
religion founded by Muhammed, the followers of which are referred to
as Muslims. Despite sharing a common root with Christianity, Norsemen
seemed to get along quite a bit better with the followers of Islam
than their neighbors the Christians, and they did quite a bit of
trading with them. Muslim silver is often found in Viking hoards.
I is for Ifing, the river that
separates the lad of the Gods from the land of the Giants. It runs
swiftly and deep, ice will never form upon it, and it is difficult to
ford.
That's all for today, I am skipping
Iceland, as I assume everyone has heard of it, but my campaign is
pre-Icelandic settlement.
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