Posted on 08/07/2015 3:16:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Norwegian further education college is starting a programme for want-to-be Vikings where students will learn essential Viking crafts, such as sword forging, jewellery making, and roof thatching.
During the course at Seljord Folkehøgskule 150km west of Oslo, students -- many inspired by TV series such as ‘Game of Thrones’ -- will celebrate even celebrate the Norse rituals of the year, going so far as to make animal sacrifices during the winter feast.
“We see a large number of applicants who have applied for different reasons," the school's principal, Arve Husby, told Norwegian broadcaster NRK. "Some have become interested through TV series and others want to learn handicraft. We give a high quality education, and if TV series get people interested, we are happy,”
Public interest in all things Viking has increased in recent years due to TV dramas such as ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘Vikings’.
The school's leading Viking teacher is Jeppe Nordmann Garly, a Dane who describes himself as a "recreational Viking”, having spent much of his life trying to get as close as possible to the Viking experience.
"You could say that I am the first Viking teacher,” said Normann Garly, who professes to enjoying Viking-themed TV dramas. "Personally I prefer Game of Thrones. Vikings has too many factual errors.
Students at the school will also have the opportunity to row Viking ships, learn ceramics and woodworks.
People in England should be warned: the students from Norway’s Viking school are planning a trip to York, or 'Jorvik', as the Vikings called it.
With a steady diet of lutefisk,other Scandinavian delicacies, and the physical labor required to not starve or freeze to death I doubt many had considerable girth.
Now, modern Norwegian women with an average GDP of over $100k, modern Western diet, and all the natural gas and heating oil to keep them warm and oil exports to fund a cradle to grave welfare system.....
This is becoming more common
I thought
i had read they were bigger than that because of the high protein diet (more meat than grains) and the physical labor. If they were actually that short they couldn’t have been too thin just because of those factors. Maybe not fat but strong/stocky.
They come from land of the ice and sun...
Go for brains — date German girls.
Cool. I always appreciated a good Viking war yodle to get the day going!!
Protein as in Fish. Very lean protein.
Are modern Japanese women full of girth because they eat lots of seafood?
Beef,pork, poultry require lots of green pastures or grains to feed the livestock. Which the Medieval Vikings did not have.
Scandinavians were extremely poor. That is why nobody ever bothered to invade them. Not even the Romans or the Mongols
In the 19th century up to a 1/4 of the Scandinavian population immigrated out of Europe.
Working like a motherf.... does not make you add muscle mass.
Look at poor laborers from ...... anywhere.
I have no doubt they would win a weight lifting contest vs average modern women.
That should be the school song.
If the Vikings were still around, there would be no Moslems in Norway..
but the Viking blood has thinned in the men of the land..
No. The muzzies are raping the Brits now.
Will they have Spam?
I can introduce you to a number of fish eating body builders and lunberjacks proving conclusively that protien plus exertion leads to muscle mass ;)
Also consider that poor Africans have a metabolism adapted to hot climates. Fat is genetically less likely. North dwellers have a genetic imperative to store fat for insulation.
I never met many waiflike northerners. Sure there are some. But overall they are bigger people.
Sounded pretty good until I go to
...will celebrate even celebrate the Norse rituals of the year, going so far as to make animal sacrifices during the winter feast.
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And I don’t mean the extra “cebrate”. We do not need to encourage more pagan worship in the world.
You will not get an answer; the fellas are off in fantansyland. And I think it best for me to leave the room before I see a post that irks me.
How about killing Muslims who are basically taking over their country?
Viking women didn’t go on raids. Only the men did.
Still had to defend the homefront. Often.
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