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Viking warriors and treasures are buried beneath Dublin
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| July 27,2014
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Posted on 08/02/2014 9:51:03 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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Dang, the photo is Getty.
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posted on
08/02/2014 9:51:03 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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posted on
08/02/2014 9:51:48 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Despite the strong Viking presence, not much Viking DNA has been found by geneticists in Ireland. Things that make you go hmmm?
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posted on
08/02/2014 9:57:20 AM PDT
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jjotto
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To: jjotto
Maybe they wiped up after themselves.
Maybe they carried off the women and children they’d fathered.
Maybe their fairly small numbers resulted in the usual power of two reduction erasing most traces.
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08/02/2014 10:02:50 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Maybe they carried off the women,only the good looking ones.
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08/02/2014 10:06:10 AM PDT
by
GSP.FAN
(Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints.)
To: SunkenCiv
This makes me remember a tour I took of Ireland in 2001. Everytime a car came at us, threatening to force our large bus off one of the narrow Irish roads, our tour guide would mutter, “D***d Vikings!?
To: SunkenCiv
They couldn’t handle the Guinness either.
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posted on
08/02/2014 10:37:22 AM PDT
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: SunkenCiv
Perhaps Dublin just wants to cash in like York (old York that is, not New York...:^)
http://jorvik-viking-centre.co.uk/
I was on a visit to York (late 70’s) when they first discovered artifacts while digging for a new office building foundation.
York has certainly turned it into a money maker. Dublin could do well to copy.
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posted on
08/02/2014 10:57:14 AM PDT
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az_gila
To: SunkenCiv
Perhaps their were rules, something akin to those against miscegenation, that were more scrupulously obeyed than we moderns believe.
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posted on
08/02/2014 11:03:04 AM PDT
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jjotto
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To: SunkenCiv
A Viking Funeral
To: SunkenCiv
So I'm a descendant of the Vikings? That would explain a lot...like why it is I've always been so relentless.
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08/02/2014 5:12:16 PM PDT
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08/02/2014 5:14:44 PM PDT
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trisham
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To: SunkenCiv
Could be very interesting. I wonder how much disruption of the city’s usual business will occur, though.
On a side note: This phrase jumped out at me— “was began”. The Irish were once well-educated. ~sigh~
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08/02/2014 5:48:35 PM PDT
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Bigg Red
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To: jjotto
Maybe they should be looking for Irish DNA in Norway, or in the Faroe Islands or Iceland then.
To: afraidfortherepublic
Perhaps he was just remembering their four failed Super Bowl attempts, rotten coaching, and poor draft choices.
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posted on
08/03/2014 8:32:33 AM PDT
by
Sawdring
To: SunkenCiv
"Archaeologists say the number of Viking warrior burials in Dublin is astounding." But what explains the dearth of viking clerk-typist burials?
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posted on
08/03/2014 8:37:43 AM PDT
by
Flag_This
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To: OldNewYork
The Vikings raided the British Islands for slaves. They definitely carried away the women.
"Ancient DNA analysis of the Icelandic settlers
Analysis of contemporary DNA shows that the mitrocondrial DNA (mtDNA) is primarily of Scottish/Irish decent while Y chromosomes are primarily Scandinavian. You can probably draw your own conclusions from that."
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posted on
08/03/2014 10:29:20 AM PDT
by
Varda
To: Flag_This
They scratched their runes into rock using whatever weapon was handy. :’)
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posted on
08/03/2014 10:43:04 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
My impression is the Vikings made much less of an impact on Ireland than Britain. Less land occupied for a much shorter time. I suppose Britain was much more lucrative looting.
To: colorado tanker
My impression is the Vikings made much less of an impact on Ireland than Britain. Less land occupied for a much shorter time. I suppose Britain was much more lucrative looting.
It was a shorter boat trip to Yorkshire - their capital when they ruled N. England...:^)
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08/05/2014 6:27:01 PM PDT
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az_gila
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