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'Sensational' Discovery -- Archeologists Find Gateway to the Viking Empire
Spiegel ^
| 8/27/10
| Matthias Schulz
Posted on 08/27/2010 9:57:10 PM PDT by LibWhacker
For a century, archeologists have been looking for a gate through a wall built by the Vikings in northern Europe. This summer, it was found. Researchers now believe the extensive barrier was built to protect an important trading route.
Their attacks out of nowhere in rapid longboats have led many to call Vikings the inventors of the Blitzkrieg. "Like wild hornets," reads an ancient description, the Vikings would plunder monasteries and entire cities from Ireland to Spain. The fact that the Vikings, who have since found their place as droll comic book characters, were also avid masons is slightly less well known.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: empire; found; gateway; godsgravesglyphs; viking
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To: SunkenCiv
Valhalla We Are Coming!
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posted on
08/27/2010 9:59:43 PM PDT
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Tainan
(Cogito, ergo conservatus)
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
08/27/2010 10:03:51 PM PDT
by
Dead Corpse
(III, Alarm and Muster)
To: LibWhacker
My great-grandfather was a viking. And a mason.
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08/27/2010 10:04:53 PM PDT
by
ponygirl
To: Viking2002
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posted on
08/27/2010 10:07:54 PM PDT
by
Gene Eric
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
08/27/2010 10:20:27 PM PDT
by
maine-iac7
(g)
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
08/27/2010 10:24:32 PM PDT
by
FReepaholic
(Yoiks...and away!!)
To: Dead Corpse
Oh how the mighty have falled
"Yer de fern de hern def fernde den"
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posted on
08/27/2010 10:30:20 PM PDT
by
tophat9000
(.............................. BP + BO = BS ...........................Formula for a disaster...)
To: SunkenCiv
Viking ping
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posted on
08/27/2010 10:33:07 PM PDT
by
Captain Beyond
(The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
To: LibWhacker
The researchers have discovered the only gate leading through the Danevirke, a five-meter (16 feet) wide portal. According to old writings, "horsemen and carts" used to stream through the gate, called "Wiglesdor." Next to it was a customs station and an inn that included a bordello.Somethings never change. Location location location.
A Tax Office, a bar and a whorehouse as soon as you go through the gate...;)
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posted on
08/27/2010 10:37:56 PM PDT
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Tainan
(Cogito, ergo conservatus)
To: LibWhacker
As a Viking descendant, I found that to be very interesting.
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08/27/2010 10:38:25 PM PDT
by
FrdmLvr
( VIVA la SB 1070!)
To: SunkenCiv
*ping (in case you hadn’t seen this)*
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08/27/2010 10:43:00 PM PDT
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fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
To: LibWhacker
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To: Tainan; Captain Beyond; fieldmarshaldj; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 21twelve; 240B; ...
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08/28/2010 5:42:32 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
To: maine-iac7
I think the sign in that picture says “Dead End”
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posted on
08/28/2010 5:47:13 AM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(There's only one cure for Obamarrhea......)
To: SunkenCiv
The Viking Kitties should be proud.
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posted on
08/28/2010 7:18:56 AM PDT
by
TheOldLady
(Pablo is very wily.)
To: LibWhacker
Does this resolve the Schleswig-Holstein question ?
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posted on
08/28/2010 7:36:19 AM PDT
by
Timocrat
To: Tainan
thirteenth warrior is still one of the best movies of all time.
To: Gene Eric
Takk! Greetings, brethren and sistren!
"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."
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08/28/2010 6:30:24 PM PDT
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Viking2002
(2010 - NO PRISONERS! NO QUARTER!)
To: SunkenCiv
There’s so much emphasis placed on Viking warfare in the histories it’s easy to overlook their far flung trade routes.
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