Posted on 09/22/2009 7:10:57 PM PDT by Arec Barrwin
Vikings 'were warned to avoid Scotland'
Scotland is full of dangerous natives who speak an incomprehensible language and the is weather awful. That was the verdict of a series of 13th century Viking travel guides that warned voyagers to visit at their peril.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Now, why did they wear kilts?
LOL
The Romans also avoided Ireland altogether; that’s how the raiders grabbed St. Patrick (and there was no rescue attempts, either).
By the 13th century the battle of Hastings was over for 150 years; the battle Harold had won days before (Stamford Bridge?) was probably one of the last Viking attempts on the island. The Normans that defeated the Saxons would cetainly be able to fend off Vikings.
Yep, and we are going to rise up here on the new continent, again. We’re tired of this pussyfooting around. Time for head-crackin’.
I’m Irish, Scots, Welsh and Danish.
[and I’m the nastiest 95 pounds on earth]....LOL!
“13th century Viking travel guides”
Now THERE’S an image!!! How wouldja like ta book a tour with broomhilda??
The first Highland games I ever took hubby involved that situation.
He kept messing with the kilted guys and whilst sitting on the curb, taking a break, I turned him and said “If one of those big guys wearing a “skirt” starts to beat your ass for square, I’m gonna just sit back and laugh.”
He let them be, after that...mostly because he realized he was offending *me* by picking on them.
ping
I think I’ve got some ancestors from there. It’s hard to keep them all straight but my ancestors on both sides of the family are Scot-Irish arriving here before the Rev. War. On my dad’s side, some settled in Harlan, KY and there were some serious badasses up in those mountains. We took my 88yr old grandmother over there this past spring to visit old gravesites and she hiked those mountains like she was 20. I didn’t fare so well but I was born and raised on flat ground. lol
I should add, my maternal grandfather’s name was McNutt. Supposedly shortened from McNaughten.....supposedly hailing from the Picts (Nechtan). They were the blue people, I believe. lol
No, Hadrian built the wall to keep out the Picts, an aborignal people.
THE GURKHA SOLDIER It’s been said “Bravest of the brave,
most generous of the generous,never had country
more faithful friends than you.”
Supposedly it was the Vikings who were responsible for the thistle’s becoming the flower of Scotland.
http://www.killerplants.com/plants-that-changed-history/20030304.asp
You’re right. This son of Vikings married a Scots woman and has been brought to his knees.
Thanks for the ping. Well, you’ve got to have some kind of arse to be running about in a kilt against other men with knives.
Speaking of things Scottish, and not that it really is, but ‘An Echo In The Bone’ is out on the shelves. New Jamie Fraser and company, you Outlander fans!
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