Posted on 08/16/2007 8:00:04 PM PDT by Rb ver. 2.0
More than 1,200 years ago hordes of bloodthirsty Viking raiders descended on Ireland, pillaging monasteries and massacring the inhabitants. Yesterday, one of their more mild-mannered descendants stepped ashore to apologise.
The Danish culture minister, Brian Mikkelson, who was in Dublin to participate in celebrations marking the arrival of a replica Norse longboat, apologised for the invasion and destruction inflicted. "In Denmark we are certainly proud of this ship, but we are not proud of the damages to the people of Ireland that followed in the footsteps of the Vikings," Mr Mikkelson declared in his welcoming speech delivered on the dockside at the river Liffey. "But the warmth and friendliness with which you greet us today and the Viking ship show us that, luckily, it has all been forgiven."
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Gag me with a lutefisk.
I didn’t know there were any Vikings left except those up in Minnesooooda. These apology guys must be REALLY old.
Same with the Methodists.
Cannibal Tribe Apologises For Eating Methodists
Before you know it, the Japanese will be apologizing to the Chinese.
Before you know it, the Macedonians will be apologizing to the Persians.
I’d just like to say that if any of my ancestors ever beat up any of your ancestors............................THEY HAD IT COMING
I’m no sissy boy
I’d like to say I’m sorry to Gordon for poking him with a safety pin in first grade.
An apology isn’t good enough. The Danes need to pay reparations.
Well, I am sorry too. I did not eat any Methodists, but I am a Anabaptist so I have been tempted. And I have not pillaged anything in Ireland, but I would love to go there one day. So...anybody I offended. Ah shoot,forget about it.
What’s next, reparations?
Oh, just damn. Someone needs to smack the apologist with the flat side of a two-handed broadsword.
Brian, Ireland had no towns worth raiding until the Vikings built Dublin!
Jeeze.
Well thank goodness for this. Now we can get on with our lives.
heck they went there for the beer!
A Message to Everyone on Earth:
I’m pretty sure that in the past 20,000 years some of my ancestors may have done something bad to someone else’s ancestors..... on the other hand, I’m also pretty sure that many other people’s ancestors did something bad to some of my ancestors, too.
WHATEVER HAPPENED WAY BACK WHEN, IT’S NOT MY FAULT!!!!!!!!
Maybe the Viking depredations were what caused the Irish to become heavy drinkers.
As I am at least one quarter Irish I demand triple damages...talk is cheap.
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