VALHALLA CALLING!!!

21:13 / 24.10.05

Well, if it sells mead, it could be fantastic.

21:14 / 24.10.05

Sorry and all... it's just someone needs to get all riled when Wagner's dissed, other than Nazis and Gramophone snobtrolls.

But Steinman's CLEARLY "the man".

As opposed to "The Man". Which is a different thing.

21:15 / 24.10.05

Come to think of it - has anyone ever been to a bar anywhere which sells mead? Viking-themed or otherwise.

21:15 / 24.10.05

Mmmm, no mead. No drinking horns, either. It's more of a flavoured-vodka-shot, drag-queens-lipsynching-to-Abba joint. But it's called the Nordisk EDDA so the thought was totally there.

21:16 / 24.10.05

"The Edda"? Yeah, A MAN WOULD DRINK THERE.

All this Barbelith viking/barbarian/pirate confusion is really making my reading of Conan The Buccaneer more complicated than it really should be, you know.

21:16 / 24.10.05

So if no mead, it cannot sadly be the drinking pro's Edda.

21:19 / 24.10.05

I can't get mead here at all. I even found out what the Spanish for mead is (Agua de Miel) but nowhere seems to sell it. Nearest I could get was a honey-infused liquer.

21:20 / 24.10.05

The first time I ever took acid, funnily enough, I went to Sherborne (a small town near Yeovil) to see Automatic Dlamini, and the local offie there did sell mead. And lo, it was about 15%, and lo, I got more wankered than I was to start with, and lo, it all got a bit messy.

Mead is ace.

Question- I have a spare room, or will have in the next few days. Methlab, or mead brewery?

21:21 / 24.10.05

Mead. Mead with bees in.

21:22 / 24.10.05

That sounds like a plan.

21:23 / 24.10.05

It's quite difficult to find in London as I recall, though I believe the booze shop (to do it a small disservice) on Old Compton Street is a good source. I must find some soon! Though mead has that real problem aflicting eminently quaffable smooth alcohol - it doesn't last very long.

21:25 / 24.10.05

Methlab, or mead brewery? Mead for sure. You could fly it to Iceland in a police helicopter...

21:27 / 24.10.05

A police helicopter ain't a police helicopter unless it's full of angry bees...

21:28 / 24.10.05

...making mead while the sun goes down.

21:28 / 24.10.05

They don't have bees in Icelnad, though. Let's get back to Vikings...

Viking bees would be way cool, though.

Mourne Kransky

21:32 / 24.10.05

Mead, ha! My maiden aunt, the one who looked like the witch in SnowWhite and who used to torture us kids with her big nit comb, loooooved mead and would force feed that and castor oil to me and my siblings for medicinal purposes. That's why I grew up to be a fat hairy alcoholic bloke with regular bowel habits. Just like my sisters.

She used to make longships out of spent matches on long winter evenings too.

21:32 / 24.10.05

You're not allowed to send bees in the post to Iceland

Which means that the Vikings must have been brewing mead somewhere else... Norway or Sweden would be a good place for bees, in the summer at least.

21:37 / 24.10.05

Maybe they were less strict about imports back when people were serious about mead.

21:38 / 24.10.05

You've been misreading your Sturlusson, T-M...

Vikings would have totally twatted Consignia with big hammers!!!

(Actually, Iceland does seem fairly proud of its low insect count. Another reason why I have to live there... no fucking moths. Trolls, entrances to hell, yeah, I can deal with them. Moths can fuck right off.)

21:39 / 24.10.05

Stoatie - can you get mead in Iceland these days?

21:39 / 24.10.05

And Xoc: Stop whining! See Odin? Dude lives ENTIRELY on mead*, and he is Top God. Ergo, mead must kick arse.

*Although thinking about it I suppose he must have the odd apple too, really. And probably not the castor oil.

21:41 / 24.10.05

You've been misreading your Sturlusson, T-M...

Ah, so it's getting personal now, is it?!

Next thing you'll say I've misplaced a pervulsion.

21:44 / 24.10.05

Vikings would have totally twatted Consignia with big hammers!!!

That would explain the great longboat robbery of 966 then. Ranald Biggusson fleeing to Constantinople, all that sort of thing. And they would get Kirk Douglas in the film version. Not Phil Collins.

21:59 / 24.10.05

That would explain the great longboat robbery of 966 then.

Pretty much, yeah.

To be fair, Sigurd Thorsbjornsson, despite having been seen to put on a blue shirt and GRIN (GRIN!!! I tells ye!) just before boarding the longboat and killing a whole bunch of people, was a salt of the earth geezer and therefore should be allowed a certain amount of leeway on this one.

angel

22:21 / 24.10.05

*small aside* you can get mead quite happily in Brighton if you are ever looking and in that town. when we come to visit Mordant we will bring you mead! *small aside*

We're The Great Old Ones Now

22:31 / 24.10.05

*Huggles angel, but in a suitably Vikingy way*

8===>Q: alyn

23:12 / 24.10.05

The Sorceror tab seems to have disappeared, but you get the message.

Whisky Priestess

11:21 / 25.10.05

WTF? Why are novelists right up in the Ninja zone? Are you seriously telling me that (oh I dunno) Hemingway was more Ninja than Pirate?

8===>Q: alyn

12:24 / 25.10.05

Yes.

Sekhmet

12:46 / 25.10.05

This thread is making me weep tears of joy.

mondo a-go-go

13:24 / 25.10.05

hey, Stoatie, let's not forget the snow pygmies!

14:16 / 25.10.05

Oh, Anna, that's so cool! I went there earlier this year. It rocks.

And where do scriptwriters fit on the graph?

mondo a-go-go

14:20 / 25.10.05

Nick, honey, of course it's cool! It's all snow and ice and volcanic water and snow pygmies!

But I still think that the expensive price of the booze will cause Stoatie some drinking problems. Or rather, a lack of them.

Though I bet the snow pygmies know a thing or two about good booze. You probably have to barter your soul or something for it first.

14:20 / 25.10.05

The snow pygmies fucking ruled.