Gunnar

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Gunnar is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between June 16, 2023 and August 29, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Njal and his friend Gunnar are best buds”; “Contact: Gunnar”. It most often appears alongside Athens, Aud, Rome.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: June 16, 2023
  • Last seen: August 29, 2024

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Source Context

Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

June 16, 2023 · Original source
There are only about 40,000 people in medieval Iceland. The book focuses on the Southwest Quarter, so let’s say 10,000 there. Each of our characters is a large landowning farmer with many children, servants, tenants, etc; if he is patriarch of a 20 person household, then there must be about 500 such patriarchs. Each of these 500 relevant Icelanders is profiled in loving depth. And if there are 500 characters in Njal’s Saga, and n people can have n(n-1)/2 possible two-person feuds, that’s 124,750 possible feuds. Of these, about 124,749 actually take place over the course of the saga (Njal and his friend Gunnar are best buds, and refuse to feud for any reason).
August 29, 2024 · Original source
Contact: Gunnar Contact Info: g[dot]zarncke[plus]acx[at]gma il[do t]c om Time: Saturday, September 28th, 03:00 PM Location: Eppendorfer Park at the pond, we will have a sign reading "ACX Meetup". Coordinates: https://plus.codes/9F5FHXQH+MF Group Link: lesswrong-hamburg@googlegroups.com Notes: Feel free to bring friends and family. Please RSVP on to me for planning.