u/ISketchDinosaurs

I'm doing some research for a story and I'm looking for imagery from Norse/medieval Germanic myth and folklore linking horses to gallows.

Obviously we have Sleipnir first and foremost, who is not just the horse of Odin the god of gallows but also appears on iconography next to figures with rope around their necks. I'm also aware of the three-legged Hel-horse which can kinda tentatively very maybe be linked to the 'three legged mare' model of three-legged gallows, and there's at least one horse/gallows kenning I'm aware of.

Aside from strictly the gallows-related stuff there's also folklore entities like the Bäcka-häst horse that would drown children, and the name Yggdrasil itself refers to either the 'terrible horse' or 'the terrible ones horse'.

Are you aware of any other similar cases rom that general corner of the world? I'd love to hear about them.

I found this picture of an Icelandic horse and can't figure out what color she is. That fading pale fur around the eyes and muzzle looks quite striking. Photo by Rob Kroenert.

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Heyo, I've used glasses for quite a while and noticed that I've had some eye strain for several pairs now. I noticed it properly when I temporarily displaced my glasses and had to go without them for a few days, and the eye strain got much better in that time, but thinking back I've had this problem for a long time.

I'm going to get a new pair soon, is there anything I can do to make sure the eye strain doesn't follow me to my next pair?

Working as a cleaner it's not rare to have to wipe things like shit and period blood off the walls and even off the ceiling. I've seen people lock themselves inside the bathroom for like an hour and when they come out the room is basically painted with diarrhea.

Those of you who have done this, why did you? What compels a person to smear their hands with their own feces? Drugs? Hatred of low-paid workers? An artistic inclination?

I'm a woman and I need to write a scene where a number of men does the Loki run (tying a slab of firewood to their balls and racing to the finish line).

I do not, obviously, have any experience of testicular trauma to draw wisdom from here. I'm not going to write this in any major detail but I need to know roughly how long this would hurt afterwards, assuming no serious injury. Hours? Days? How bad would the pain be the day, or days, after? How would this reasonably affect a person?

Yes, I get it, I do participate in AI discourse and talks about billionaires and EU politics. BUT CAN I PLEASE SEE SOMETHING ELSE.

The Elder Scrolls lore has a canonical 50/50 chance of inheriting either parents race, right? So every child he has will have a 50% chance of being a snow elf, and so will their children and so on, without any risk of inbreeding.

What's the problem?

Like the Swimmers who are apparently doing long-distance swimming in the middle of the ocean without any proper gear. Or the Hikers, or the Jugglers or Firebreathers, who are numerous enough in some games that they're probably a whole subculture.