Earlier today, one of my fellow Marines started playing the Ymir track by Danheim & Gealdýr on his Bang & Olufsen Danish-made portable speaker. He missed Norway, now his home, and needed a reminder of his roots in the absolute foreign culture Japan is. Within a minute of the opening lyrics - in Old Norse - playing, the two dozen pups (toddlers) with us …
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