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  • it said something like “this is very high”.

    Maeshowe, in the Orkney Islands off the northern tip of Scotland. It’s a properly ancient structure, and there are 30 runic inscriptions in it which are all just straight up graffiti, including “Tholfir Kolbeinsson carved these runes high up”. My favourite part is it’s not even that high up, like the guy was probably just on someone’s shoulders.

    Oddly enough we probably have the story of the graffiti artists. The Orkneyinga saga tells the tale of some 12th century Norsemen who took shelter there during a snowstorm and looted the place. By the time they did so, Maeshowe was already about 4,000 years old, and whatever they looted was probably left there by their own ancestors a few centuries beforehand.








  • Huh, interesting that that’s your experience. One of the things I’ve found myself disliking here is that the power users seem to drive even more of the conversation. I have never seen so much Star Trek content in my life because by chance two particularly active users happen to be big on Star Trek. I’ve got nothing against the Star Trek stuff but it catches my attention, you know?

    I suppose it’s possible that the reddit experience I’m comparing it to was quite different from the usual one. It’s also possible there’s just something else making me notice specific names more here than there. It’s not the end of the world, and I’m much more likely to post comments than threads so I’m not doing a lot to help the situation anyway