Mass grave in Dorset contains remains of executed Viking warriors

The Times Online ^ | 3-12-10 | Simon de Bruxelles

[atomic conspiracy]

This is how the British used to deal with immigrants who came only to plunder and rape. Today it would be a couple of years in jail, then a lifetime on the dole.

[bamahead]

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[NordP]

My peeps???

[colorado tanker]

Ping.

Looks like some locals got a little revenge on some Vikings.

[Pajama Blogger]

[BRL]

With my luck, If I hooked up with her I would get plundered but not raped.

[worst-case scenario]

Viking “warriors”? Try *Viking* invaders. (Iknow that “warriors” isn’t your terminology, atom. con.) The British has lived through Viking invasions before, and knew what a Viking victory would mean.

Good on ye, my ancestors.

It is interesting to find out the truth about these skeletons. I remember the dispute when the grave was discovered, and it was theorized the killing was committed by the Romans.

[samtheman]

Pointless to apply today’s standards to the Middle Ages.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I imagine the commie ‘RATS are going to want to go after Bush and Cheney for this too.

[AnAmericanMother]

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[ccmay]

I wonder if there is anything in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Bede, Nennius, William of Malmesbury, Aethelward’s Chronicle, or Geoffrey of Monmouth that sheds light on this event. I suppose if there were, they would have mentioned it. Probably just an unrecorded vigilante action by stalwart Saxon freeholders, God love them. Perhaps we have something to learn from them.

[Myrddin]

They didn't put panties on their heads.

[Raycpa]

all well built young men

How do they know this or is the writer working on a romance novel?

[Riodacat]

Forensics..

[vetvetdoug]

Somehow I think that the Vikings gave as good as they got.

[Waverunner]

Grizzled Viking warrior

[bigdaddy45]

Sounds like some reparations are clearly in order here. Innocent Swedish tourists murdered by the thuggish locals. Is there a Swedish version of Al Sharpton who can get on this?

[ApplegateRanch]

Today it would be a couple of years in jail, then a lifetime on the dole.

And an antisocial behavior order against any Brit that looked crosseyed at them, no matter what they were doing to provoke the agressive eye rolling.

[Peter Libra]

Always a matter of high interest for nearly everyone. I went up into the attic and got my copy of The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles (Colour Library Books of Godalming, Surrey 2005). It shows the original manuscripts and english translations by Anne Savage. The date given was roughly a thousand years ago that this event happened.

I know that King Alfred the Great of Wessex reigned from 871-899. It was he that defeated the Danes a number of times. Curiously enough the name Wessex (West Saxons) was disgarded for that area- being Dorset and Somerset. Yet the East Saxons (Essex) with Middle Saxons (Middlesex) and South Saxons (Sussex) still bear the name.

Other Saxons bribed the Danes with Danegeld (gold). The nasty beggers reneged on their promise to leave that area alone. They came very often. More gold or else! It was King Alfred that stood up to them.

Please excuse this long screed and in case you all ready know this history, it may inform others. The men could be casualties of real warfare. Awful to contemplate as it is today. I know that weapons were so valuable, they were quickly taken from the dead. Perhaps a coin or two may be found (unlikely) but one never knows. This might date the event.

[SunkenCiv]

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