Posted on 09/10/2014 10:14:17 AM PDT by llevrok
I’ve blacked out in fights before. Once I threw a kid who was messing with me in junior high across the hallway and into a bank of wall-lockers. Knocked him out. I only remember doing it after someone reminded me later. When I do remember it later, it’s like watching a videoape of somebody else doing it. It is typical of people with Celtic/Norman heritage for some reason. The poets who wrote of the great Celtic hero Cuchullainn described him going into a fighting rage as “the warp-spasm”. as you said it has some historical basis in fact from the Viking “Berserkers”. Did you know where that term comes from? Viking warriors wore Bear-hide shirts. In old Norse shirt is “sark”. So one who wore a bear shirt was a “bear-sarker”. Sorry, rambling on. Word meanings are fascinating to me.
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Rose: No, you're just sort of... brown.
The Doctor: Aww, I wanted to be ginger. I've never been ginger. And you, Rose Tyler, fat lot of good you were. You gave up on me. Ooh, that was rude. Is that the kind of man I am now? Am I rude? Rude and not ginger?
That was I thinking LOL!
Actually if you are NCIS fan Leroy Jethro Gibbs all his girlfriend and his first wife and mother of his daughter Kelly was red head
Do you watch History Channel the Viking the series they introduce one of Viking folk hero as red head
Never seen it....................
No I’m cool - always like to hear about stuff like this. I knew Chuchullainn suffered form it. I have no recollection of those few minutes it’s all a big black hole.
First memory after I have is someone pulling me off and people folks from the cafe across the street coming over. Someone said “Oh my...”, looking down seeing blood on my boot, and I was told “you get home...” Which I promptly did. Didn’t even know I’d kicked him in the face till later when dad talked to me about it. Guy was about 4 inches taller than me - still don’t know how my foot got there. It’s funny we’ve both traveled a bit from our little town and have run into each other on occasion and were pretty good buds ever since.
Eric “the red”? No, I haven’t seen any of them but is on my “to do” list to download to my kindle. There were a decent amount of redheads in Ireland before the Vikings came along. But it would be a no brainer that Viking, and later Norman interbreeding increased the numbers. According to many European historians the Normans assumed so much Irish culture that they were “Quo hiberniam ipso hibernes” in English “ more Irish than the Irish themselves”. Chances are, that if you have an Irish surname beginning with “Fitz” (from the Latin “Fils”= “Son of”) you have Norman blood
BTW I hear rumor they going introduce Eric the Red on History Channel Viking series pretty soon
Kewl! I really gotta catch up on the vikings, but the Doctor who season just started and I’m just getting used to Peter Capaldi...
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Ginger must be a Brit thing. I was called red, rusty and carrot top, but never heard anyone called ginger (except on Gilligan’s Island).
I think you’ve got it the other way around. My family is all Nordic and I’ve lived in Sweden - red heads are not common maybe but certainly not uncommon. Many historical persons in Nordic history were known for having red hair.
It’s the Viking....uh....”interventions” in populations in Scotland and Ireland that planted the seed, as it were. That and a long, long history of Nordic groups settling in those areas and intermarrying with the local Celts and Picts. ;)
After the last 1200 years it’s all a muddle. I’m mostly Irish and Scottish, with a little German to spice things up. My freshman year of high school My parents sponsored a Danish exchange student. She was freckled and red haired. unless she spoke up most people just thought her another kid in my big Irish Catholic family. And her accent was so minimal that sometimes that didn’t even give it away. There was a fair bit of interbreeding between Celtic and Scandinavian peoples, that’s for sure.
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