[SunkenCiv]

subtitled, "Two remarkable ships may show that the Viking storm was brewing long before their assault on England and the continent".

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[ButThreeLeftsDo]

I think that the first Vikings were Tarkenton and Tinglehoff.

;-)

[JoeProBono]

[doc1019]

According to historians, the Viking Age began on June 8, A.D. 793

At 10:38 in the morning. ;-)

[wastedyears]

I could post a ton of viking/pagan/folk metal.

[blueunicorn6]

If they find a lot of beer bottles and shotgun shells, then it was probably an old family reunion of my family. Usually, there’s more than 40 dead, but they might have been friendlier back then.

[dfwgator]

Fran Tarkenton, of course.

[a fool in paradise]

Did they find their hornrimmed glasses?

[Cold Heart]

Intersting find.

Reminds of the Far Side cartoon with a couple of Viking ships high & dry on the beach and a village pludered & burning in the back ground. The warrior Vikings were gathered around their boats and one folorn looking Viking. The caption was, Sven, the one who was in charge of the tide book, has something to say to all of us.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Thanks for posting.

[smokingfrog]

Rumor has it, they may have made it as far as Texas.

[patriotUSA]

Once again I must set the record straight. The Vikings were only farmers out on a milk run. All this about raping and pillaging was just jealous talk from a bunch of jealous French girls!

[shhrubbery!]

The higher ranking of the carefully interred warriors of
Salme 2 were buried with their impressive double-
edged iron swords lying neatly between them.

[Fai Mao]

The first true vikings!

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51K8KEHGS1L._SY300_.jpg

[wastedyears]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3UhN6mTU4k

Don’t listen to this if you have sensitive ears.

[chesty_puller]

I doubt if we ever really figure out the Vikings. very cool post, thanks.

[arthurus]

The Vikings collaborated with the saracen pirates and raiders in the Mediterranean. Much of what both groups were about was the taking of slaves. The saracens took their slaves directly to the homeland. The Vikings took them down into Russia where they sold them to the moslems. Some Christians and Pagans in Europe found it easier on themselves and profitable to fight and capture Slavs who were entering Europe from from the East and sell them to both Vikings and Moslems hence the word "slav e".

http://www.libertylawsite.org/book-review/when-the-spirits-collided-islam-and-christianity-in-the-course-of-western-civilization/

http://www.amazon.com/Mohammed-Charlemagne-Revisited-History-Controversy/dp/0578094185

[Yollopoliuhqui]

The Vikings go back further than the 700’s.

http://www.amazon.com/Baltic-Origins-Homers-Epic-Tales/dp/1594770522/ref=la_B001JP8MEG_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1371745647&sr=1-1