Modern Culture
- In the popular MMORPG RuneScape, there is a NPC called Askeladden who is a small child yet he succeeds where most others cannot during the Fremennik Trials.
- In the Japanese historical manga series, Vinland Saga, there is a character named Askeladd who is a clear reference to the old Norse tale as both characters possess many of the same characteristics.
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Famous quotes containing the words modern and/or culture:
“The complaint ... about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernes, while adequate and amusing in themselves, tend to make the people who use them look dated. It is an honest criticism. The human race has done nothing much about changing its own appearance to conform to the form and texture of its appurtenances.”
—E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)
“The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.”
—Midge Decter (b. 1927)