Norwegian job ad seeks friendly Vikings

NJOnline ^ | 4.05.05 | ap

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Norwegian job ad seeks friendly Vikings

OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Help wanted: Vikings. Must be friendly, tourist-oriented and interested in ancient Norse traditions. Crazed, bloodthirsty pillagers need not apply.

In a rare employment opportunity for Vikings, whose job market peaked about 1,000 years ago when they terrorized Europe in their longboats, southern Norway's Vestfold county wants to fill slots at its local historical park.

The ad, to appear in local media Saturday, will be simple: "Jobs available. Vikings in Vestfold," with a link to the center's Internet home page, said Lars Kobro, self-described chieftain of the Midgard Historical Center.

"More and more we see that tourists are interested in Vikings," Kobro said Tuesday. "They don't want just exhibits, but face-to-face encounters.

But the center is seeking to play down the Scandinavian Vikings' reputation as wild, murderous looters who pillaged and burned through much of Europe, a claim Kobro said was largely exaggerated in texts left by ancient English monks.

"They were really more traders and merchants," said Kobro. He said they are seeking a corps of about 50 part-time Vikings, ready to turn out at the center when needed.

[Principled]

enjoy.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Some of them are to lazy to qualify.

[SlowBoat407]

(get the real thing...Buy Only Danish Hams. :^)

[skinkinthegrass]

YOUR RIGHT! I forgot about Victor Borge

[NRA1995]

See the friendly Viking

[dighton]

But the center is seeking to play down the Scandinavian Vikings' reputation as wild, murderous looters who pillaged and burned through much of Europe ...

Pårti-pøøper ping.

[TexasRepublic]

...a claim Kobro said was largely exaggerated in texts left by ancient English monks.

My "English" ancestors were Vikings that came for dinner and stayed, so don't believe the revisionists.

[Ecthelion]

Wife: Have you got anything without SPAM?
Waitress: Well, there's SPAM egg sausage and SPAM, that's not got much SPAM in it.
Wife: I don't want any SPAM!
Man: Why can't she have egg bacon SPAM and sausage?
Wife: That's got SPAM in it!
Man: Hasn't got as much SPAM in it as SPAM egg sausage and SPAM, has it?
Vikings: SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM... Lovely SPAM! Wonderful SPAM!
http://www.mailmsg.com/sounds/spam-song.wav

Python doesn't always do it for me, but that sketch is absoultely hillarious.

[akorahil]

He said they are seeking a corps of about 50 part-time Vikings

Have they considered THESE part time Vikings?

[Larry Lucido]

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Odd, I am getting the red x box...

[Larry Lucido]

Try this one.

[franksolich]

Ping for the Norway ping list.

I had entered this story, but the thread was pulled because it was a duplicate of this one, posted just minutes ahead of mine.

Excresence happens; no big deal.

[JLO]

Ping for the Norway ping list. I had entered this story, but the thread was pulled because it was a duplicate of this one, posted just minutes ahead of mine. Yes, I saw it. This thread has been pulled. Pulled on 04/05/2005 11:48:49 AM CDT by Admin Moderator

This thread could be kind of a funnny Viking Kitty magnet though, eh MeekOneGOP?

[MeekOneGOP]

Huh? .....

Fun thread.

[RightWhale]

Vikings are naturally, happy, friendly, robust folks. Once the crops are planted they drag out the boat and that kind of thing, but the wimmin and chirrun are happy to see them go on summer vacation and leave the farm in relative peace and quiet.

[JLO]

Huh? ..... LOL! I see you did just what someone asked earlier...sized it down and added a pancake!

I have a few favorites of kitties too, but I bet you know that, already. I just recently kept a doggie one that's a hoot too! Where, oh where, can you add a pancake? LOL! (I wish I had your photoshop skills, Meek!)

[Finger Monkey]

MMMM, kitty belly.

[jriemer]

Vikings ain't totally uncivilized.

[MeekOneGOP]

LOL!

Wait. You want a pancake pic on that doggie,
with the pancake on his bottom? haha!

Okay. :)