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Alex Doppelgänger

📖 Linguistics & Board Games 📖

🟢 Back in 2016, the publisher Feuerland Spiele released one of Uwe Rosenberg’s most acclaimed board games to date: A Feast for Odin, a somewhat complex game about a Viking community that hunts, farms, crafts weapons and tools, and explores. A saga in board game form and an extraordinary game, a pleasure to play.

🟢 And although it’s just (?!?) a board game, I’ve learned a lot of interesting things from it—like the following. In the picture, you see a player board where they collect resources and other bits and pieces. Those blue wooden pieces near the tree are the blue player’s “workers,” which they use to perform actions in the game. The photo was most likely taken at the beginning of a round, when players gather all their workers in that spot on the board, called in the game a "Thing Square".

🟢 So what’s up with that? The workers being in a THING. Although it may seem so at first, this word "thing" isn’t the result of an indecisive designer who couldn’t think of a simple name for a meeting place for some game pieces… In fact, it’s the most accurate name for that gathering: THING.

🟢 Before playing A Feast for Odin, I had no idea about this, but as I later found out, while today the word "thing" means “object, stuff, matter,” in the Middle Ages, when the theme of the game is set, it actually meant “council, assembly, gathering.” So yes… the Vikings are in a THING, they are in the Thing Square—that is, they are in a medieval council, in the square where assemblies are held.

🟢 It turns out that this word "þing" or "thing" appears (among others) in Old English, Old Norse, Old Saxon, and Old Dutch. The term meaning “council, assembly, gathering” was used by the English as early as 685–686 AD. The place where a thing was held was called a "thingstead" or "thingstow". However, by the year 1300, it had already lost this meaning, shifting in Middle English to refer to personal possessions, eventually evolving into the modern sense of “object.”

🟢 Even in modern Icelandic, Norwegian, and Danish, the term still carries its original meaning in official names, such as Folketing (“People’s Thing,” or “People’s Assembly”) in Denmark, Storting (“Great Thing,” or “Great Assembly”) in Norway, or Alþingi (“General Thing,” or “General Assembly”) in Iceland.

A player board from the board game A Feast for Odin during a session. There are 10 meeples on the board and several polyomino pieces.
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#AFeastForOdin#BoardGames#History
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RobertJackson

youtu.be/x1Q4tYhLRvA?si=kCFCjO

Mediaeval sleep patterns ... #BiphasicSleep

For the best part of 10 years or so I've had a split sleep pattern. The oh so common #4amClub.

My habit became to get up, have cereal, then go back to bed after an hour's #FamilyTree research or whatever.

Then drop off for the rest of the night.

I'd heard this was an ancient notion of first and second sleeps.

Tonight I heard it named as biphasic sleep.

Then looked up YouTube & found it's a "#Thing" ... #Aaaaaaagh!

:((

YouTubeMedieval Nights: The Lost Tradition of Two SleepsBy History and Coffee (also Books, Pens & Music)
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Fabiano Cerqueira 🖖

Marvel Two-In-One #45 (November 1978), script by Peter B. Gillis, art by Alan Kupperberg and Mike Esposito, cover by Ron Wilson and Bob Layton.

While on a date with Alicia, Ben is attacked by gangsters. It was a trap set by his old enemy, Boss Barker, the same Skrull, former leader of a planet that mimics Earth in the 1920s that enslaved the Thing and made him fight in the arena. This time, he will get a hand from Captain Marvel.

#Thing#CaptainMarvel#MarvelComics
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Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈

“#CulturalChristians” Are Taking Over the #Conservative #Movement.

It’s the #hot #new #thing on the #farright: #dressingup in the #trappings of #Christianity without being #burdened by all the #fussy #moralobligations of the #faith.

— and all the "Real Christians" are letting them. So you know what to do! #EmptyThePews

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews

newrepublic.com/article/188337

The New Republic · The “Cultural Christians” Are Taking Over the Conservative MovementIt’s the hot new thing on the right: dressing up in the trappings of Christianity without being burdened by all the fussy moral obligations of the faith.
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