Things I Learned While Watching "Vikings"

To: Conservative4Ever

Only on Netflix’s DVD program. You can watch this season’s episodes on the History Channel site. They do expire, so you’ll have to do some catching up in the next couple of days to see the first couple of this season’s episodes. If you have Amazon Prime, season 1 is free to watch online.

101 posted on 03/30/2014 2:03:58 AM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)

Thanks for the alert......saw most of Season 2 last night.

102 posted on 03/30/2014 3:11:29 AM PDT by dennisw (Lenovo)

It was a bad year for raiding...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJSdXcrHGUc

103 posted on 03/30/2014 3:31:52 AM PDT by rbmillerjr (Russians to the Left of me, Useful Idiots to the Right...)

It is my favorite show on television.

The whole soap opera thing with the GOP Jeb Bush things is horrible casting. He could never win an election.

104 posted on 03/30/2014 3:42:29 AM PDT by rbmillerjr (Russians to the Left of me, Useful Idiots to the Right...)

To: shibumi; Slings and Arrows

Would have gotten to this earlier if we hadn’t lost internet service yesterday *grumble*.

That IS very good. I admit I’m not much on the metal growling...never have been, really...but music? I like. Video imagery? Love. And that is one cool chick.

105 posted on 03/30/2014 8:46:54 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)

To: Slings and Arrows; shibumi

LOL

I didn’t see any tray-tossing feminists, but I’m kind of worried about the, uh, orientation of those Vikings.....in view of their music taste.

NO SHOW TUNES!

106 posted on 03/30/2014 8:48:20 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)

107 posted on 03/30/2014 8:57:28 AM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)

108 posted on 03/30/2014 9:05:25 AM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)

To: CatherineofAragon

She has caused me to have impure thoughts.

109 posted on 03/30/2014 9:05:57 AM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)

To: CatherineofAragon

They did seem awfully happy to get that livestock on board...

110 posted on 03/30/2014 9:23:03 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Richard Warman censors free speech.)

To: Bloody Sam Roberts

The cast and producers have *earned* my interest, with their attention to both the known, verifiable history of the time frame, and their equally astute handling of the legends stemming from the times, which while unable to verify the accuracy behind the legends, at least presents them to the modern audience for consideration.

What do I mean by this? Simply the following points. There is *no* verifiable written record as to the very existence of a man named Ragnar Lothbrok (or Ragnar Hairy Breeks, as he was named in Anglo-Saxon legend of the time,) let alone his leading the Lindisfarne Raid, which *was* the first raid by Scandinavian marauders on Anglo-Saxon England entering written record. But, there is a wealth of oral legend, both in Scandinavia and England, featuring an individual so named.

Did such a man actually exist, or is he a composite of several other individuals whose names are lost both to written history, and surviving legend? Nobody can definitively answer, but interweaving the two makes for a darned good story, and is a perfect example of the bard's craft.

Inasmuch as I, in years past, have been an active historical re-enactor, who re-enacted both combat (yes, I've actually taken my place in a shield-wall, stormed a 'castle' from the heights of a siege tower, and all that) and the bardic arts, such definitely piques my interest immediately, and when well-done, I commend...

the infowarrior

111 posted on 03/30/2014 9:14:48 PM PDT by infowarrior

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