I am pleased that eating cake is not only gratifying, it is also an act which honors the ancestors.

And now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to honor my ancestors.

(This is today’s Candorville comic, by artist Darrin Bell.)

[Image description: A four-panel comic, featuring a woman and a man leaning forward against a wall as they speak.
Panel one: The man says, “We’re a whole generation of ingrates.”
Panel two: The man says, “Take preservatives, for instance. We whine and moan about how bad they are for us.”
Panel three: The man continues speaking, “But tell that to the 300 thousand generations of humans who starved to death during our first 2.5 million years on Earth. I bet they’d have thought preservatives were worth the risk.”
Panel four: The woman says, “I still don’t think you should eat that cake you left out last night.” The man replies, “It would be an insult to our ancestors if I didn’t!”
End description.]

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Today’s Non Sequitur Cartoon by Wiley Miller:

[Image description: A four-panel comic, featuring a woman holding Tarot cards on the left, and a man on the right. The table between them has a few cards on it.
First panel: The woman says, “The spirits speak to me through the cards.”
Second panel: The man points at the cards and replies, “Hey . . . if the next card is the ten of spades, you’ve got a royal flush!”
Third panel: The woman stares at the man, who is showing a big smile. There is no dialogue.
Fourth panel: The woman says, “The spirits think you might have a gambling problem.”
The man replies, “Whoa . . .  you are good!”]

Researchers from the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen have reconstructed the clothing found in two of the most famous Viking Age graves in Denmark. The reconstructed garments from two graves dated to the 900s; a man’s grave from Bjerringhøj, Mammen, and a woman’s grave from Hvilehøj. Both we interred in large burial mounds on Jutland in Denmark.

The Museum of Cultural History in Oslo, Norway is presenting an online exhibit, with details of the work and photos of the reconstructed garments.

I would like to point out that the white pattern on the woman’s dress is not tablet-woven trim, nor is it embroidery—it is woven into the fabric of the dress. I cannot imagine how many hours that must have taken—or the amazing patience and skill it took to do so.

Many thanks to Fjorn the Skald for this link! (If you haven’t checked out his website or signed up for his newsletter, I highly recommend doing so!)

Photo: Roberto Fortuna, National Museum of Denmark.

[Image description: A medium-height woman with brown hair wearing a red linen dress with a white pattern woven into the bodice, leather slipper-style shoes, and a short fur cloak decorated in blue, red, and silver tablet-woven trim stands on the left of the photo. Next to her stands a taller man with short brown hair and a beard, wearing an undyed wool tunic with embroidery, dark yellow long pants edged at the ankles with red tablet-woven trim, and leather shoes. He wears a longer fur coat decorated with tablet-woven bands of wool, which hides most of the embroidery on his tunic.]

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