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Vikings 'were warned to avoid Scotland'
The Daily Telegraph ^ | September 20, 2009 | Telegraph News

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 ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; scotland; vikings
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood

Now, why did they wear kilts?


41 posted on 09/22/2009 8:13:17 PM PDT by Eaker (If you have a problem and If explosives are an option then explosives are THE answer.)
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To: Apercu

LOL


42 posted on 09/22/2009 8:19:38 PM PDT by Gator113 (YES WE CAN.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cMxJBenigY&feature=related)
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To: Bean Counter

The Romans also avoided Ireland altogether; that’s how the raiders grabbed St. Patrick (and there was no rescue attempts, either).


43 posted on 09/22/2009 8:20:06 PM PDT by Carlos Martillo II (Guernica was a work of art...and I don't mean the painting.)
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To: Arec Barrwin; shibumi; Salamander
Alba Gu Bra!
44 posted on 09/22/2009 8:23:24 PM PDT by Semper Mark ("The future ain't what it used to be." - Yogi Berra)
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To: Arec Barrwin

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.


45 posted on 09/22/2009 8:24:52 PM PDT by Carlos Martillo II (Guernica was a work of art...and I don't mean the painting.)
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To: Arec Barrwin

46 posted on 09/22/2009 8:28:35 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Skooz

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’.


47 posted on 09/22/2009 8:29:26 PM PDT by ExpatGator (Extending logic since 1961.)
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To: Skooz; shibumi

I’m Irish, Scots, Welsh and Danish.

[and I’m the nastiest 95 pounds on earth]....LOL!


48 posted on 09/22/2009 8:30:11 PM PDT by Salamander (..But I was not all alone. I made friends with a lot of people in the danger zone.....)
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To: Arec Barrwin

“13th century Viking travel guides”

Now THERE’S an image!!! How wouldja like ta book a tour with broomhilda??


49 posted on 09/22/2009 8:32:11 PM PDT by lonster
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To: lmr

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.


50 posted on 09/22/2009 8:36:35 PM PDT by Salamander (..But I was not all alone. I made friends with a lot of people in the danger zone.....)
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To: Carlos Martillo II
For those of Scottish descent, this website has some information: Ferguson Page
51 posted on 09/22/2009 8:44:59 PM PDT by lagrange point1
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To: SunkenCiv

ping


52 posted on 09/22/2009 8:52:05 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
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To: vetvetdoug

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


53 posted on 09/22/2009 8:55:50 PM PDT by TNdandelion (I'd rather have FedEx run my healthcare than USPS.)
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To: TNdandelion

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


54 posted on 09/22/2009 8:58:23 PM PDT by TNdandelion (I'd rather have FedEx run my healthcare than USPS.)
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To: Bean Counter

No, Hadrian built the wall to keep out the Picts, an aborignal people.


55 posted on 09/22/2009 9:56:48 PM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: DuncanWaring; snuffy smiff; ottbmare; colorcountry; Irish Eyes; Cailleach; ReneeLynn; Beowulf9; ...
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56 posted on 09/22/2009 9:59:25 PM PDT by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Remember Neda Agha-Soltan|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
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To: Skooz

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57 posted on 09/22/2009 10:08:37 PM PDT by Colorado Cowgirl (God bless America!)
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To: sionnsar

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


58 posted on 09/22/2009 10:39:02 PM PDT by decal (The Key To Flexibility is Indecision)
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To: Skooz

You’re right. This son of Vikings married a Scots woman and has been brought to his knees.


59 posted on 09/22/2009 10:40:24 PM PDT by norge (The amiable dunce is back, wearing a skirt and high heels.)
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To: sionnsar

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!


60 posted on 09/22/2009 11:18:25 PM PDT by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black.)
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