An archaeologist excavates a circa-1000 English burial pit in summer 2009. The pit holds 51 headless young men, perhaps Viking warriors executed by early English fighters, experts say. Photograph courtesy David Score, Oxford Archaeology
An archaeologist excavates a circa-1000 English burial pit in summer 2009. The pit holds 51 headless young men, perhaps Viking warriors executed by early English fighters, experts say. Photograph courtesy David Score, Oxford Archaeology
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“OD-I-I-N!!”
you don't need that ring, do you?
Britain needs to apologize for this ethnic cleansing of the Viking “raiders”. They were probably just wayward youth or young strolling minstrels.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86thelred_the_Unready
Looks like archaeological evidence of Ethelred’s massacre of the Danes in 1002.
Interesting, I wonder how many English died to capture them.
Dem Dry Bunes
Tue-a bune-a cunnected tu zee fuut bune
-a Fuut bune-a cunnected tu zee leg bune
-a Leg bune-a cunnected tu zee knee-a bune
-a knee-a bune-a...ja dey all dry bunes
“Footprints identified with the ‘86 Bears were spotted nearby.”
At least the English probably didn’t waterboard them.
Sources place King Alfred at the scene...
All Hail Alfred the Great!
The Vikings also liked to navigate rivers.
The Isle of man was discovered by Vikings.
The vikings must have tried to force nationalized health care against the will of the people.
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Being Irish, Scots, Welsh and Danish, I find myself feeling rather conflicted regarding this.
[bloody Sassenachs!]
Saxons could be pretty obtuse as a peoples but being one of them I hold them dearly.
what an irony...fight those pesky raiders for 100s of years and then in 1066 they just waltzed right in under another name and took over forever....more or less though the Saxon bloodline did sneak back in with Henry II’s momma.
oh well brutal necessities of brutal times
there is a story of a Viking King who is captured by the Saxons and as they are about to roast him alive he declares defiantly something like “laugh now because even though the boar is in a pickle when my little piglets hear of this they will surely squeal...and squeal;
he had several sons who all henceforth waged war on the Saxon lands brutally and whose greatgrandchild was ultimately William the Conquerer who as mentioned above waltzed in with a new fancy name
Gotta be Zombies.