u/InvestigatorJaded261

Hi friends. Despite a lifelong desire to do so, I am finally (at 55) getting round to reading the Icelandic sagas. So far I have read Egil’s, Laxdaela, and a couple of other short ones.

There is a repeating phrase that I am curious about. Whenever a baby is born, even in explicitly pre-Christian circumstances, the child is almost always described as being “sprinkled with water” and then given a name. Obviously this sounds a great deal like Christian infant baptism, but in these contexts that seems unlikely at best. Does anyone know anything more about this practice? Thanks!

It was on the departure platform. A woman came and yelled at us for thinking it would take us anywhere, and then it reversed back up the tunnel.

I’ve never seen this happen before, and I have never seen Bowdoin so crowded, and I typically board here at this time 4-5 nights a week.