To: GSlob
Leif Eriksen was Norwegian not Swedish. Actually, the Swedes were operating almost exclusively in Russia and Byzantium, while the other vikings went to North America. I think it may just be coincidental that they did the same types of things with their teeth.
5 posted on
01/08/2006 2:25:41 PM PST by
Theoden
(Fidei Defensor - Deus vult!)
To: Theoden
This is what happens when you try and brush with your swords. . .
To: Theoden
I thought it was the Swedes who gave us the occasional blond Irishman...
9 posted on
01/08/2006 3:01:17 PM PST by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Don't buy Bose. Their warranty is no good.)
To: Theoden
Western and Southwestern Sweden were an area of Sweden that sometimes fell under the control of Denmark or Norway. If from the Goteborg area they would probably have done their "Viking" in the North Atlantic.
See:
http://www.algonet.se/~hogman/slkrig_eng.htm
The modern boundaries were essentially established after the treaty of Roskild in 1648.
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