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Reminds me of a scene in "Happy People", a documentary about life in the Russian taiga, where the hunter fashioned a pair of skis by splitting a tree. Link if
by koverda 8y ago
Reminds me of a scene in "Happy People", a documentary about life in the Russian taiga, where the hunter fashioned a pair of skis by splitting a tree.
Link if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cPhWpprLmM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cPhWpprLmM
- legulere 8y agoThe word ski even etymologically comes from a split piece of wood. The cognates in German (Scheit) and apparently also Icelandic (skið) and English (shide) actually still mean that. (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/skīdą https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic...)