Posted on 02/07/2008 5:39:12 PM PST by blam
The bible says something like avoid genealogies, and I'm not sure what is meant by that, but I wonder if I'm doing something I shouldn't. It may mean in some spiritual context.
As to those ties going way back in time, one indiscretion (or wrong link) along the way and the whole thing falls apart anyway. Plus there is so much hidden that was never recorded in any book or register.
Maybe all that crocheting was a waste of time, too. It served its purppose at the time. I've got one complex sweater I did that is too pretty (to me) to wear :-(.
7 feet tall? Almost missed that. Wow, there is a genetic clue or an aberration for you. That is TALL!
I'd like to get going with it too but what's with the crocheting stuff?
:-)
but what's with the crocheting stuff?
It looks like the hooded sweater is crocheted, and I'd love to make one like it. I'm not 100% positive it is, but it doesn't look like any knitting stitch I'm familiar with.
Got ya. Sorry, my mind was on some different knitting, and trust me, I'm not all that familiar with knitting that young and attractive anymore. But there was a time.... ;~))
UM, in August they seem to find their way to Torremolinos and Alicante and Benidorm on the Med coast of Spain for a tittie sunburn. And get loaded at night in the bars and discos there. The Spanish women are smart enough to get everybody S-faced drunk for tips. You have to observe this scene. You get loaded people speaking a dozen languages having fun together.
My sister and I share great-great grantparents. Are we third cousins?
I saw that stuff. If that wasn’t bad enough, go to Pamplona for las fiestas de San Fermin. In the honor of Hemingway, little kids put flowers aroung his statue under a great big tree. While their parents get drunk for 3 days and screw around.
But if there were some Icelandic chicks there --- well, you never know what really stupid thing I might try. And the girl in the photo..... I just want to meet her mom.
I'm not totally delusional. ;~))
I hadn´t seen this news, it is interesting. Here in Iceland it is quite easy to follow your ancestry, I can f.e. trace my ancestry back for more than 1000 years, to the first settlers of our nation. We also have an online tool to do it, called islendingabok.is. Most people here are related in the 8th to 10th generation, we used to be so few after the hardships of danish tyranny, lack of trade freedom, our own backwardness, and volcanic activity and subsequent colds.
One funny fact about Icelandic genelogy is that every icelander can trace his lineage to the last Catholic Bishop, that was executed in 1550 with his sons.
We regularly go to family gatherings, where the descendants of particular couples meet, often at their birth or the place they lived in the countryside. We often say that the purpose of these meetings is to know who you are not supposed to sleep with. But it is always as funny when you hear stories about when shit like that happens, especially if it happens at the family gathering. I heard one such story at my last party, so funny, so sad, in this case the perpretrator didn´t even know he was at a family gathering, he was dragged there by his parents and was shit-drunk the whole time.
Funny about the parties. Thanks for the input.
Ask Rudy about tha,lol.
I am so lost...I am my own grandpa.
As to all the pictures of the beutiful examples of Icelandic girls there is one possible reason for that, beware we are very protective of them, we don´t want foreigners to steal them as we need to continue our nation and create more beutiful girls (and there are only 300 thousand of us).
The reason could be that for centuries marriages between people related lower than in the 6th generation were banned (this I have heard), so for a limited stock and a pretty isolated valleys in an isolated island, we ensured a reasonable diversity. Men often had to travel the country from one end to the other to find a wife to marry.
Other reason, and maybe related one, is the rapid urbanisation of our country in the 20. century, I am of the opinion that the girls in the capital area are far more beutiful than generally in the countryside (there are exceptions, I have lived in both urban and rural area). Here came a lot of generally normal people but when mixed with people from other places of the country some fine specimen came to be.
But the genetic makeup is propably pretty good, I mean we are descended of nordic and keltic origin, the men forefathers more nordic (often chieftain and small kings) and the women forefathers more keltic, so we sometimes say, in joke..., well maybe it is best to let professional actors tell that joke:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6XAETjdjQU&feature=related
And periodically our country shed like one to two thirds of the population, the weak, during famines, eruptions and sicknesses. After the first 300 golden years of the Icelandic Free State, our population never passed beyone 50 thousand, until modern times.
One more thing to brag a little, we have been a literate nation (home schooling most of the time) for 1000 years, and then I mean nearly everybody could read and write.
There is a song in Iceland that says basically that, it is by a local comedian who is counting his genetical information, made even more complicated with divorces and strange marriage combination, so he finally comes to the conclusion that he is his own grandfather.
What does the data from Arkansas tell us?
If you git a divorce in Arkansas, are you still brother and sister?
It’s an old Irish ballad.
Oh, well - we all have a viking in the closet somewhere.
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