#or even being generous and counting from 793 again that's still only 1230 years

[cisthoughtcrime]

every time I talk to my friend from high school, inevitably at least once she confidently says something incorrect about something I actually know about and I keep not correcting her because who has the energy, right?

like she starts telling me about how much she's been learning about Viking history since moving to Denmark, and I'm keen and listening because I'm assuming she must know more than I do since she now lives there and is studying for the citizenship test. But then she says something about "... the Vikings, at the end of the Bronze Age..." and I kind of "huhmm" and ask if she's sure she means the Bronze Age and she doubles down and keeps talking about the Bronze Age. And at that point, since we talk maybe four times a year, I really don't see the point in making this one about telling her that there's pretty much twice as much time separating the Vikings (~700s-1100s CE) from the end of the Bronze Age (~1300-1100 BCE depending on the area) as there is separating the Vikings from us.