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Surely you must be asking what does Norse Lore have to do with the tōge racing installment of The Fast & the Furious movie franchise. It's the surprising appearance of the actual F&F phrase in chapter nine from The Saga of Hrafnkel Frey's Godi : ...  but then Thorkel rushed into the booth and said to Thorgeir, his brother, "Don't be so fast and furious about this kinsman."   This could just be an expressive choice by translator Terry Gunnell, and while the expression only first gets noticed in  Scottish poet Robert Burns'  Tam o’ Shanter  in 1791, instead the above excerpt's saga was w ritten in about ~1280-1350 CE, and if directly quoted, spoken around ~925-950 CE. The connection could liminally be a carry-forward of Indo-European charioteering, or Icelandic horse racing, or reflective of Norse Mythology's attestation of the race between Odin's Sleipnir and jötunn Hrungnir's Gullfaxi from  Skáldskaparmál . Odds are the timeless id...