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Biggest Viking exhibition in 20 years opens – and this time they're angry
Guardian (UK) ^
| Wednesday, June 19, 2013
| Maev Kennedy
Posted on 06/23/2013 5:12:39 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
"...in an exhibition opening in Copenhagen that will smash decades of good public relations for the Vikings as mild-mannered traders and farmers... " I must've missed the "kinder, gentler" Viking stereotype. Cultures that feature "berzerkers" and guys with names like "Eric Bloodaxe" don't sound sqeezably soft.
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posted on
06/23/2013 8:12:01 AM PDT
by
Flag_This
(Real presidents don't bow.)
To: SunkenCiv
I was hoping for some awesome battering ram type swords and a battle axe that would make Thor proud
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posted on
06/23/2013 8:48:09 AM PDT
by
winodog
To: Flick Lives
Yes. I salute your tag line as well - from one most excellent movie to another!
To: Flick Lives
(sorry - meant to say your handle)
To: PlateOfShrimp
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posted on
06/23/2013 10:25:50 AM PDT
by
TruthWillWin
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
To: SunkenCiv
It’s politically correct to portray Vikings as rapists and plunderers. This is what they brought to America < /sarc >.
Meanwhile every museum I’ve seen since 9-11-2001 has done countless exhibits on the art and technology of Islamist society.
The plunder and subjugation seems to get written out of those exhibits.
To: SunkenCiv
Today’s Scandinavians should take a leaf from their ancestors’ book, or a sword from their scabbard, and drive those damned Muslims out of their countries.
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posted on
06/23/2013 3:08:11 PM PDT
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ZULU
((See: http://gatesofvienna.net/) Obama, do you hear me?)
To: a fool in paradise
If it wasn’t for the Vikings taking Sicily in 1091 AD from Islam I doubt the first crusade would have started in 1095 AD.
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posted on
06/24/2013 2:44:59 PM PDT
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Steve Van Doorn
(*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
To: Steve Van Doorn
"If it wasnt for the Vikings taking Sicily in 1091 AD from Islam I doubt the first crusade would have started in 1095 AD." Roger I was Norman, he was descended from Vikings who moved into Normandy around 920.
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posted on
06/24/2013 3:03:21 PM PDT
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Flag_This
(Real presidents don't bow.)
To: Flag_This
yes, and many of Roger I men signed up for the first crusade.
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06/24/2013 3:49:30 PM PDT
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Steve Van Doorn
(*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
To: SunkenCiv
"Eaters of the Dead" by Michael Crichton.
Great book about Vikings made into a movie: "The 13th Warrior"
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06/24/2013 3:50:36 PM PDT
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Popman
(Godlessness is always the first step to the concentration camp.)
To: Flag_This
No indeed. I ran into this
Page of Viking Nicknames and certain of them do sound a little prickly. Ogmund the Evil, for one, and Thorfinn Skull-splitter. Bard the Peevish and Ulf the Unwashed, though, they could be pretty much normal guys around here.
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