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littleoc
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Here’s a fern in a secret cave.
It really is secret. It had just been discovered by archeologists and it changes what we may think about who truly found Iceland or the Americas. Obviously, Erikson discovered America. But when the United States gifted the Erikson statue to Iceland, it was hushed up. The United States wasn’t ready to admit that they didn’t like Columbus. I read the text on the statue gift, noticed the United States never said once that Erikson had specifically discovered the Americas. Just the North, something along those lines. Some myths are best left unchallenged with facts.
But everyone knows Vikings first discovered Iceland, and settled down to avoid that vicious king. Became farmers. Murdered giants, at least one story actually proved true so far from the epics. Two large skeletons unearthed, by the pathway they were tricked into carving.
My professor and my peers and I visited a man’s home to see a cave that pre-dated any Vikings. I can’t show the pictures here too much, but long story short, it was very obviously the work of Irish monks, more than a thousand years ago.
This fern is only three years old at most though. He’s pretty recent. He was looking out at the changing world to enjoy sunlight, but liked the damp, carved-in-cave with Irish crosses carved over ancient still-buried stairs. It wasn’t unchanged exactly — still needed to be dug out.
In Iceland, you don’t ask people what they believe in. They’re probably tired of it, but it’s like asking a person if they believe in ghosts. Most people will give you a no or an uncertain answer. It’s better to ask them if they have a story or what they know.
The man who owned the land and stumbled on the cave first took us carefully through an old shed before the cave. He was suddenly quiet and so we were too, looking around carefully. Then he quietly went ahead and we followed.
When we were outside, he pointed to a pond and said it had been there for a thousand years. I was standing right by him. He looked me in the eyes, looked carefully at my professor, then mentioned gently, “That’s where the elves get their water.”
It was a magical moment. A nice memory. He moved ahead right after that, and I snapped careful pictures of this cage. It looked exactly how I expected a history-changing cave to look. It was great.
It really is secret. It had just been discovered by archeologists and it changes what we may think about who truly found Iceland or the Americas. Obviously, Erikson discovered America. But when the United States gifted the Erikson statue to Iceland, it was hushed up. The United States wasn’t ready to admit that they didn’t like Columbus. I read the text on the statue gift, noticed the United States never said once that Erikson had specifically discovered the Americas. Just the North, something along those lines. Some myths are best left unchallenged with facts.
But everyone knows Vikings first discovered Iceland, and settled down to avoid that vicious king. Became farmers. Murdered giants, at least one story actually proved true so far from the epics. Two large skeletons unearthed, by the pathway they were tricked into carving.
My professor and my peers and I visited a man’s home to see a cave that pre-dated any Vikings. I can’t show the pictures here too much, but long story short, it was very obviously the work of Irish monks, more than a thousand years ago.
This fern is only three years old at most though. He’s pretty recent. He was looking out at the changing world to enjoy sunlight, but liked the damp, carved-in-cave with Irish crosses carved over ancient still-buried stairs. It wasn’t unchanged exactly — still needed to be dug out.
In Iceland, you don’t ask people what they believe in. They’re probably tired of it, but it’s like asking a person if they believe in ghosts. Most people will give you a no or an uncertain answer. It’s better to ask them if they have a story or what they know.
The man who owned the land and stumbled on the cave first took us carefully through an old shed before the cave. He was suddenly quiet and so we were too, looking around carefully. Then he quietly went ahead and we followed.
When we were outside, he pointed to a pond and said it had been there for a thousand years. I was standing right by him. He looked me in the eyes, looked carefully at my professor, then mentioned gently, “That’s where the elves get their water.”
It was a magical moment. A nice memory. He moved ahead right after that, and I snapped careful pictures of this cage. It looked exactly how I expected a history-changing cave to look. It was great.
