Hey, all!

So, I'm writing a How to Train Your Dragon fic involving the senses. One of the things I'd like to do is have Hiccup smell the scene of pine even indoors. I want it to either be small enough he can hold it (I have considered having him just waving some pine needles under his nose) or have it be something that will waft throughout the ( Read more... )

So I've been quibbling over asking for a few days, only long  enough to all me to go check other entries and I haven't quite found an exact answe to my questions.

The setting of my story is a Viking Village, of a fantasy setting and my MC(Blacksmith's apprentice) has just been called out for unsavory conduct. As expected, he submits to the judgement ( Read more... )

Setting is a fanstasy-esque world, something of a culture mishmash but leaning towards Western Europe/Scandinavia c. 800-1000 AD. I'm in the early stages of writing anyway so liable to change ( Read more... )

Searched: Yahoo & Google

Queries: "Norse wedding traditions," "Norse marriage traditions," "Scandinavian wedding ceremonies," you get the idea.

Premise: One of my favorite OCs to write is a Highlander!Immortal raised in the double-digits AD in Norway (just because the Viking hadn't started raiding didn't mean they didn't exist). Lately, she's ( Read more... )

I’ve been trying to find some sources for information and I’ve found it to be really hard. If anyone knows any information or could send me in the right direction, it would be amazingly appreciated ( Read more... )

Not sure how to Google this:

1) Is it possible to bus straight from Hamburg to Copenhagen, without having to get on a ferry?

2) If so, how long would this trip take?

3) How long would a ferry trip from Copenhagen to Oslo take?

The Swedish warmblood is a pretty horse, and is far closer to the appearance of, say, the Arabian or the Mustang than the Finnhorse and the Norwegian Fjord horse are. The Finnhorse, however, can totally take it up in Sápmi (Sapmi, Sameland, Saamiland, Lapland). I don't know whether the Swedish warm blood can, but it would be really awesome if it ( Read more... )