I took an arrow in the knee is not Old Norse slang

Many pages are sharing the following Meme at the moment

The only thing that’s true in that meme is that it is mind blown.

The idea comes from a modern game named Skyrim and was invented to make some guards have a conversation. There is no historical information that such an expression existed in Scandinavia in the Viking Age.

For more information see this link

This page was deleted by a mistake at the end of 2019. This blog post is from the old page and has been reposted on the new page. The original article was posted in April 2017.

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