"...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.
21 posted on 06/23/2013 8:12:01 AM PDT by Flag_This
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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.