“Proudly posting without reading the article since [sign-up date]” should be everyone’s default tagline.
The fashion at Free Republic these days is too rush to post Twitter-like comments before anyone else. The results are often sentence fragments and incoherent paragraphs that completely miss the point of the article.
Free Republic was once noted for thoughtful mini essays that imparted both information and reasoned analysis. Discussions were actually undertaken rather than the random rattle of cannon fire. Sadly, those days are long gone and we are poorer for it.
I did read the article. There’s nothing in there that distinguishes the Viking stuff from the neo-lithic age boat.