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RE: Fingernails / Unghie delle mani - 5 Minute Freewrite Day 129 [Eng/Ita]
What a grim legend! I've never heard it before, and very much enjoyed your poetic retelling, and commentary. "What sick fantasy must have a people, a culture, to invent a ship made of nails?"
Great writing. Perhaps a flagon of mead in celebration?
Perhaps! Or some sort of corruption of the language in oral transmission through the centuries. Beliefs over improper disposal of hair and nails in burial were very common in the ancient indo-european people.