These are Welsh, not Scandinavian, hence the repeated references to Wales and Welsh history in the post, as well as the linked exhibition of Welsh artefacts in a museum of Welsh life in Wales, and the blunt statement at the beginning: ‘that photo is a Welsh lovespoon’. For avoidance of doubt: Wales is not in Scandinavia. None of the information above pertains to Scandinavia. Literally 0%. Norway has wedding spoons. They’re very different. See this version of the post.
It is, in fact, deeply irritating to have 700 comments in my notifications about how knives would be way cooler as a courtship token than spoons, because not only are spoons just objectively cooler than knives (scooping > stabbing) but it’s just an excuse for people to be super duper edgy (no pun intended) at the expense of something with actual cultural relevance. We get it, Kevin. You play DnD. You’ve read Tolkien. You think knives and daggers are super rad. And hey, that’s cool, but it’s also approximately 0% relevant to the cultural practice being explained in this post. Make your own dang post about how you think it would be cool if people exchanged personalised daggers instead of engagement rings, and stop elevating your Medieval cosplay fantasy stuff above a living cultural practice.
Wales is a real place, and these are real cultural practices. Wheel of Time is fiction. Comparing the two is wank. Someone on Tungle dot hell showing off a cool thing from their culture (me, hello, I’m OP) is fun and nice; people saying ‘ha, yeah, but this fictional thing is cooler’ is not fun or nice, especially because the fictional thing literally does not exist, on account of it being fiction.
I literally beg people on this hellsite to stop and think for, like, 5 seconds before adding comments to a post, and bear in mind that OP gets notifications for all of them, because this is just a fun little post I did to show off a cool thing about my country and heritage (which, for those not In The Know about Wales, was subject to centuries of cultural and linguistic erasure) and the myriad ‘YEAH BUT KNIVES HAHAHAHA’ comments are… not sensitive or indeed original in any way, shape or form (unlike the spoons. Those are very original.) The nice and cool response to someone sharing information about their culture is emphatically not to make jokes about how other stuff is better, or to make totes hilarious suggestions about how to improve upon it. It’s just literally not. Pls. I do not have the spoons for this shit.
