I was just clicking around wiki today and found a surprisingly good amount of info on the Netherlands. What stood out to me most is that they report from the earlier time of Christianization many folk customs I know to have persisted into the 19th and early 20th century. For example in the Scandinavian folklore material I had often heard of Othin being a corn/harvest idol type thing and here they have a full page for it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_dolly
Multiple missionaries were unsuccessful in converting the Frisian controlled Netherlands and when they had some success they complains about all the non-Christian things the converts do and gives us a big list of it all:
This is from 1400 years ago but sounds all too familiar.
19th century folklore also apparently records a version of the Thor - Midyard Worm battle:
The Romanized locals also made dedicatory monuments that have survived:
And finally here is an interesting Dutch painting from the 1400s:
I wonder how much of this is from vague recollections of Roman times, folk customs, or just imagined?
And miscellaneous note this goddess Hludana made me instantly think of the element in Chlothar, Clovis, Hlewdwig, etc. yet the listed etymology doesn't mention that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hludana
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythology ... _Countries
Dutch Mythology
Fuckin cool man I will explore.
My mother was 100% dutch blood, born and raised there. I have lots of dutch cultural scraps of memories and images floating around in my head, wonder how many of them will connect.
Netherlands is such a tiny country but some major stuff came out of there over the ages. Kind of weird, wonder what they were smokin
My mother was 100% dutch blood, born and raised there. I have lots of dutch cultural scraps of memories and images floating around in my head, wonder how many of them will connect.
Netherlands is such a tiny country but some major stuff came out of there over the ages. Kind of weird, wonder what they were smokin
Masato wrote:Fuckin cool man I will explore.
My mother was 100% dutch blood, born and raised there. I have lots of dutch cultural scraps of memories and images floating around in my head, wonder how many of them will connect.
Netherlands is such a tiny country but some major stuff came out of there over the ages. Kind of weird, wonder what they were smokin
One of my friends from elementary school had Dutch blood and I remember when we hung out at her house after school her basement had paintings of windmills and they had wooden shoes we would sometimes wear for fun. Also this is obligatory:
Luigi wrote:Masato wrote:Fuckin cool man I will explore.
My mother was 100% dutch blood, born and raised there. I have lots of dutch cultural scraps of memories and images floating around in my head, wonder how many of them will connect.
Netherlands is such a tiny country but some major stuff came out of there over the ages. Kind of weird, wonder what they were smokin
One of my friends from elementary school had Dutch blood and I remember when we hung out at her house after school her basement had paintings of windmills and they had wooden shoes we would sometimes wear for fun. Also this is obligatory:
haha hilarious
I have heard a lot of dutch in my life and it will never not sound funny to me
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