• fishos@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Makes you wonder what parts of our current history will get garbled in 500 years and start becoming the stuff of myths.

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      8 hours ago

      Depends what happens between now and then and what survives. We have pretty accurate documents from Rome and thusly a sober interpretation or at least as much as you can get. Meanwhile the viking age is as much legends as it is history, the difference between myth and legend is blurry but generally when spirits and gods get involved in a direct sense it’s myth with a few exceptions. King Arthur and Beowulf are myth, De Bruce and Davey Crocket are in the early stages of legend.

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        5 hours ago

        I mean moreso the transition from concrete facts to “well we think this might have happened/been how people felt/etc”. The destruction of digital information is a very real thing. Try finding any website from the 90’s for example. I think there’s a chance information retention, especially about “current events”, will get worse, not better.