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[NordP]

MY ANCESTORS RULE!

[Viking2002]

'Raiders or Traders?'

Actually, we were just looking for an all-night pub and a lap dance. Kinda hard to find either back then.

[normy]

Both I think.

[driftdiver]

I think it depended on whether you were strong or a wussy feminized nation.

[RJL]

Raiders Or Traders? (Vikings)

Traders, a few road trips got a little out of hand...

[Pontiac]

In 845, the Viking raider and extortionist extraordinary Ragnar Lothbrok slipped up the Seine with 120 ships—an estimated 5,000 men—to Paris, where King Charles the Bald paid him 7,000 pounds of gold and silver to leave in peace. (A contemporary wrote that "never had [Ragnar] seen, he said, lands so fertile and so rich, nor ever a people so cowardly.")

The French haven’t changed much in 1163 years.

[ThomasThomas]

Just imagine what the world would be like if we had the Oakland Traders Pro Pro football team. The Chargers would only use green electricity. Seattle Seadoves, Denver Ponies. Baltimore Colts colts are kinda like ponies if you don’t care about keeping facts correct. We have much more work to do with these team names. Arizona Cardinals is there some sinister aspect of a cardinal that’s makes them tough guy type of bird? Or has PC already consumed them.

[SunkenCiv]

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[RJL]

The French in 845 AD:

In 845, the Viking raider and extortionist extraordinary Ragnar Lothbrok slipped up the Seine with 120 ships—an estimated 5,000 men—to Paris, where King Charles the Bald paid him 7,000 pounds of gold and silver to leave in peace. (A contemporary wrote that "never had [Ragnar] seen, he said, lands so fertile and so rich, nor ever a people so cowardly.")

[Mad Dawg]

Damn, She is a beeYOOTful vessel!

[Ragnar54]

The Teaching Company offers a course on the Vikings:

Vikings

Professor Harl has a different explanation (as opposed to "the best iron") for the success of the Vikings:

"But culture only takes us so far. The Viking Age would have been impossible had the Scandinavians not possessed superiority in shipbuilding and warfare, and Professor Harl devotes two in-depth lectures to this achievement.

You will explore in detail how the design features of Viking ships allowed them to ride the waters rather than fight the waves, to be dragged across land from river to river, and to be beached in any port and sail almost anywhere. Many Viking victories resulted from the fact that their ships could sail several times faster than opposing armies could move on foot.

Contrary to the stereotype of slashing homicidal maniacs in horned helmets, Professor Harl discusses a precise, organized, battle-hardened army of men trained in warfare since boyhood. Vikings were extraordinarily fit, skilled in boarding ships, in leaping and jumping, archery, swordsmanship, and the wielding of axes. Even more frightful, they were fearless, regarding battle as a state of ecstatic joy and expecting thrill in victory or glory in Valhalla as they rushed at their foes."

The Vikings in effect founded Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Greenland, Normandy and Russia. (The Swedish Vikings were known as "Russ" (Rooss)). They forced the consolidation of England and ruled England for a while.

I thoroughly enjoyed the audio download version of the course (36 lectures for $49.95).

[Tallguy]

Trade with the strong & wealthy; take from the weak. Why couldn’t they be both?

[Alkhin]

Just inserting the requisite picture (hubba hubba) from "The Thirteenth Warrior" - Vladimir Kulich