High-status Danish Vikings wore exotic beaver furs

ScienceDaily ^ | July 27, 2022 | PLOS

[Big Red Badger]

So I know more about Beavers but Rat Hats was a
Dead End !
.
I have an Urban Sombrero,
Some where here.
/$

[SunkenCiv]

https://www.tvfanatic.com/quotes/if-outside-is-so-good-why-has-mankind-spent-thousands-of-years/

[SunkenCiv]

But yeah. :^)

[Jamestown1630]

'Most men are only seconds away from being 11 year old boys'

True. Sometimes they grow up when they have kids or go to war; but even then, we never really get the boy out of them :-)

[SunkenCiv]

Beavers (and Vikings) are also native to northern Eurasia, so they may have just trapped ‘em themselves, or traded with neighbors.

[Larry Lucido]

[texas booster]

Not sure which fur I like the best:

... or ...

(If you look closely you may see goosebumps)

[DannyTN]

[rlmorel]

I saw some video of guys over in Iraq, big bad Marines all set up in their combat gear and armed to the teeth clowning around in some Iraqi barnyard with a ram, one guy getting on his hands and knees to go head to head with it while the guys looking on laughed like kids.

Thank God some really never get the boy out of them. Probably what keeps people in some of those situations sane...

[Red Badger]

Ward, you were awfully hard on The Beaver last night....................

[bert]

Slaughtered?

The Indians sold the beaver pelts to the French and British traders

[SunkenCiv]

“Ward, there’s something wrong with the Beaver”. Ya gotta think that the producers and writers of that show were having fun the whole time.

[Red Badger]

Maybe that word was not a euphemism back then.....................

[SunkenCiv]

Tail, beaver... nah, that’s been around a loooooong time.

[Red Badger]

https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=beaver

My bieber is stuned!.........................

[SunkenCiv]

And that was in 1927, so, probably was in common use (among adults) well before that. :^)

[Red Badger]

Seems odd that it would be British slang.............................

[packagingguy]

Yes that’s right. They sold the pelts but fought over hunting grounds.

[nicollo]

One of the theories of European entry to African trade and subsequent colonization was over access to ivory, which was previously acquired through Iceland/Greenland walrus hunting, but which ran out as those settlements were abandoned due to overhunting and climate cooling that forced them out of Greenland.

[SunkenCiv]

Other reasons include, improvement in both ships and naval armament, and the 11th c (Seljuk) Turkish invasion of the Middle East and Byzantine Empire. The (largely mythical) era of a united muzzie empire disintegrated.

The rise of the Ottoman Empire in the 15th c led to the fall of Constantinople in 1453 put the cap into what was left of the flow of trade from the East into Europe via the B.E.

The bubonic plague had (re-)emerged among European populations in the 14th c, and with the rather sudden cooling known as the Little Ice Age during that same century, the old feudal order fell apart, leading to a need for a regularized legal system (increasing the value of literacy), and paid labor / free enterprise.

Everything that exists came into being because of the way things unfolded in the past.