Have got to ask - what do you do for a living? Is all this stuff connected to your job or are you just fascinated by it all?The germanic speakers referred to their neighbours by the languages that they spoke and the speakers the former celtic langues were known walhs. Hence we get the Canton of Valais in Switzerland, Wallonia in Belgium, Wales in Britain. The Walh prefix was also used by germanic speakers to describe goods which were traded, for example, the Walnut, literally Welsh Nut and in Sweden wine, which came from Gaul and Italy became known as welsh wine, 'välskt vin'.
Have got to ask - what do you do for a living? Is all this stuff connected to your job or are you just fascinated by it all?
I love anything to do with Scandinavia but in particular Sweden. Read Swedish and German with subsidiary French and Spanish for my degree and lived in Sweden for a while. Dragged my husband there kicking and Sweden on lots of hols. We got married out there and I only speak Swedish to my kids which has been handy for them when we've gone on hols there. Really love Gothenburg and if we ever win the lottery .....Just a hobby of mine, Bronze Age and Iron Age Scandinavia. Been doing it for years along with genetic anthropology. My friend wrote a book, The Well Spring of the Goths and I have been to Sweden, Denmark and Jutland many times.
Since my ancestry belongs to the group below, how could I be anything less than interested.
Point taken! Must be the teacher in me.... Or perhaps I'm just nosy - lol!Let's get this one back on topic guys! If you all wanna talk about Scandinavia please make a new thread or do so via PM
Just a hobby of mine, Bronze Age and Iron Age Scandinavia. Been doing it for years along with genetic anthropology. My friend wrote a book, The Well Spring of the Goths and I have been to Sweden, Denmark and Jutland many times.
Since my ancestry belongs to the group below, how could I be anything less than interested.
Funny, I wanted to be a pilot as well, went into engineering instead, now mainly in the oil industry.Ab-so-lutely.
I wanted to be an RAF pilot, and I would have been a very good one, but my dreams were shattered aged 12. Life thereafter has just been a search for some other fullfilment not yet discovered.
Furthermore, on a beautiful warm summer's day, I can't just jump in the car and drive to say skafell pike for a walk. Similarly, I can't just jump on Eurostar and go to Paris for a bender on a Saturday night on a whim. If I wasn't diabetic, those sorts of things would need no preparation, no forethought, no other planning, nothing to carry.(except a bit of cash, credit-card, and passport for Paris).
The same applies to work, sitting in meetings and thining "**** I think I'm going hypo. how can I reach for another coffee and shove loads of sugar into it at this precise moment in time without looking an ****, the clients don't know I'm diabetic, and we just had a break 10 mins ago".
Having said that, I have worked on projects abroad ....Iraq (pre-wars), Saudi, Sudan, Oman, Israel, Greece (pre-EU(, Nigeria, Jamaice ....to name a few. So diabetes doesn't stop world travel, but it does impact spontaneous excursions and excludes one from some jobs.
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