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>He was said to have been swallowed by the Strid in 1152 after trying to leap across. As an American it's always startling to casually see a date that far back
by SamPatt 4y ago
>He was said to have been swallowed by the Strid in 1152 after trying to leap across.
As an American it's always startling to casually see a date that far back in history, and know a specific event such as the death of a child was recorded, and has been remembered for nearly a thousand years.
- AceJohnny2 4y agoAs the joke goes: "In the US, 100 years is a long time, in Europe, 100 miles is a long way"
- koheripbal 4y agoI routinely drive 10 hours in the US for week long vacations with the kids. My European relatives can't even believe it when I tell them. They think driving that long is some superhuman ability. I'm quite content listening to my history podcast for 10 hours.
- laurencerowe 4y agoAs a Brit now living in California I agree with your sentiment but a 10 hour drive for a week long trip was pretty routine in my childhood, usually once or twice a year. Either visiting family in Cornwall (400 mile, 12 hour trip when we were young kids before the roads were improved, 8 hours when we were older) or camping holidays in France (usually two weeks.)
- skerit 4y agoI'm from Belgium. Anything over 50 km (30 miles) away should ideally be turned into a weekend-long trip
- RajT88 4y agoYep. I regularly drive 46 miles to visit my wife's family. The roads are long and straight, and the speed limits quite high. We get passed on the highway when we're doing 120km/h. I don't imagine you can maintain those kinds of speeds on account of speed limits and winding roads. Possibly takes an hour or three?
- bergenty 4y agoThat’s like a 25 minute trip if you’re on the freeway.
- mod 4y agoI own a business that's 124 miles away from my home. You can guess where I live.
- aidenn0 4y agoMy wife attended graduate school 200km away and would leave and return the same day. At least one of the ways (depending on what time the class was) was in stop-and-go traffic for a decent part of it, taking up to 4 hours.
- EdwardDiego 4y agoWhen I visited relatives in the West Midlands of the UK, they treated any journey over 30 miles like an expedition into hostile territory, and so they were astonished that I'd drove 40 miles to hang out with my Mum for a few hours.
- mrlonglong 4y agoI do regular 240 mile roundtrip drive a month just to visit my mother. Doesn't faze me.
- r2_pilot 4y agoHa, (USA - MS here), my mom lives 17 miles(27 km) away and I visit her regularly, and prior to my current job, I commuted 44 miles (70 km) daily for 3 years.
- stevenwoo 4y agoCounterintuitively, oral histories (and traditions) have been and may be a better long term store of information than written documents but someone in the future is going to find out for sure! There's the 10000 year Australian aboriginal tales about sea level rise that matched geological data and was on the front page a few years ago.
- lotsofspots 4y agoThe oral traditions of the Klamath people describe the eruption that turned Mount Mazama into Crater Lake 8000 years ago, too.
- Bakary 4y agoThe information obtained is so fragmented and imprecise that it's not really that useful beyond testifying to the the length of aboriginal history.
- CalRobert 4y agoOf course, the Americas has a long history, but much of it was systematically destroyed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_codex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_codex .