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To: SunkenCiv; Salamander
"Iron shielded vessels
Flaunted colourful rigging.
The great prince saw ahead
The copper roofs of Byzantium;
His swan-breasted ships swept
Towards the tall-towered city."

The approach of Harald Hadrada From the Heimskringla.

11 posted on 05/05/2014 4:09:11 PM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: shibumi

Somewhere I’ve got an old Penguin ppbk of Norse lit, including an anecdote about HH when he was a boy. The king asked HH and his two cousins what would they like to obtain during their lives. The first one said, if memory serves, enough fields to grow enough wheat to fill, some huge-assed building. The second kid said, enough cattle that they could eat up all of the first one’s wheat in one go. and Harald said, he wanted enough warriors to eat all of the cattle in one sitting.


13 posted on 05/05/2014 9:44:03 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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