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To: Altair333

Just think--they were once Vikings! Unbelieveable.


25 posted on 05/24/2006 2:55:33 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: rbg81
It's that dang little thing called Christianity.

Once them priests got up there all the fun times were over.

Ya, I come from a long line of lutefisk eaters. And I ain't that good a Christian. That turn the other cheek stuff just don't cut it.
38 posted on 05/24/2006 3:08:06 PM PDT by PeteB570 (Guns, what real men want for Christmas)
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To: rbg81

No, the Vikings ended up staying in Northern England and Scotland, becoming the ruling class in Russia, the Normans of France and Sicily and
the Varangian guard in Constantinople.

Modern Scandinavians are mostly descended from the wusses who stayed home.


40 posted on 05/24/2006 3:11:18 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: rbg81
"they were once Vikings!"

Well, how bout this thesis? All the Swedes with cajones left --off to adventure! Those behind were pacifists, and the less able?)

83 posted on 05/25/2006 6:49:55 AM PDT by litehaus
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