• Dasus@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Brits are “badass women” presumably for Celts like Boudica, but at the same time, Denmark/Scandiwegia is labeled as “blonde wigs”?

    I don’t know of any practices of using wigs in the first millenium Scandinavia?

    Oh no right now I get it.

    You’re basically saying the blonde hair for Roman wigs comes from Scandinavia.

    Yeah that’s probably true.

    I actually realised that midway writing this so I’m gonna leave the revelation there

  • Aielman15@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Goddamit I never realized that the Golden Fleece myth was located that far. I always place greek/romans myths in a nebulous “some random ass island located somewhere in the Mediterranean”, but it makes sense that the greeks would locate some of their stories in the Black Sea, which was very near their homeland.