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Movement in the branches, watercolour, 17x12 cm The great tit might not be the most common bird in Sweden, but it's the most common bird around the bird feeders in our gardens. Even if I see them everyday, I often stop to admire how beautiful they are. ... Rörelse i grenarna, akvarell, 17x12 cm Talgoxen är inte sveriges vanligaste fågel, men den är den vanligaste fågeln vid fågelbord och fröautomater i våra trädgårdar. Även om jag ser dem varje dag, så stannar jag ofta för att beundra hur vackra de är.

Great tit/talgoxe. Fledglings and adult.

#great tit #talgoxe #birds

Currently reading a paper on the animals that are found in the Eddas. There has been an actual academic discussion on the topic of which bird species Sigurd hears after accidentally consuming some of Fafner's blood.

The paper suggests marsh tit, great tit, or nuthatch.

Source: Nils von Hofsten, Eddadikternas djur och växtvärld - Animals and Plants in the Eddic Poems

#edda #nuthatch #marsh tit #great tit #entita #talgoxe #nötväcka #birds #norse mythology

Ya olden daye swedish speaker seeing him

Why you always be eating my tallow candles. Every time i meet you, ya just be eating them, dont you know i need it? And also! You are stealing nibbles from my block of tallow, which i use for cooking.

Its my food! Would you stop it! Dont eat my food and my candles!

You know what?

I am gonna NAME YOU freaking oxen tallow! To forever shame you, for your tallow related crimes!! Tallow thief!!

- medieval swedish farmer, calling a THIEF OUT

[the bird great tit in english. In swedish talgoxe = oxen tallow. I cant promise it got its name just like that, buuuut its not impossible. Technically ;p]

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https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=4916&artikel=7143576

#talgoxe #the saga of helga and nature