Generations later:
Posted on 03/13/2013 10:42:29 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
It’s been more than fifty years since Kirk Douglas and his production company produced what most people still consider the best Viking movie ever made, The Vikings. Within the limits of the information available at the time, they made a good faith effort to do the thing relatively authentically. We’ve learned much in the years since, especially due to advances in archaeology, and many reenactors around the world (of whom I am among the least) work hard to re-create authentic Viking Age life. Dozens of accurate replicas of Viking ships have been built and put to sea, to the wonder and delight of many. The time would seem to be ripe for a depiction of the Viking Age that would surpass Kirk Douglas’s film in portraying of one of the most exciting and colorful eras in human history.
The History Channel’s new series, Vikings, is not it.
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Nice to know...... I guess.
“I'll be in my bunk.”
How would a Norwegian plant his seed in a Whale?
It be a Narwhale! Nar!
Thar she blows.
Vikings were manly men. They did what they wanted! ;)
I read through the responses to make sure no one beat me to it...but sure enough, LOL!
Animal Planet, too; its only decent show is Big Cat Diary at 7 a.m. The rest is junk and reality shows.
I couldn't believe it this morning when the History Channel actually showed a documentary about the Knights Templar----without a single mention of aliens.
Regarding the Saxon arrivals in Britain, St. Gildas gives us the dates ~ he was there when King Ad gave up the family farm (then Northern Cornwall, now Wessex/Essex/Susses/etceterex) to the Saxons ~ who we now know weren't all that numerous. The residents relocated to a recently depopulated Brittany.
The depopulation occurs after the end of the world event ~ and involves Merlin et al replanting grapes from there to the Rhone Valley.
That would be about 535AD give a couple of decades.
At the same time the Angles were still waiting in Freisland ~ their relocation to Britain happened later, and they began moving into a quite miserable Scandinavia and West towards Nederland and Britain.
The Vikings arise several centuries later in Scandinavia after they'd overextended themselves and were starving to death. Life was very difficult until they got their seagoing boats ~ in the 800s. By then their society had deteriorated into a dog eat dog primitive barbarism ~ with reading and writing.
Most people of Scandinavian ancestry don't like to think of it that way but that's the way it was.
It was 1000 AD before the missionaries got to Iceland to convert those people to Christianity.
At first, I thought they were sailing west to the unknown land of what is now America but when this great adventure turned out to be the British Isles the tv got turned off. I’m sick of Hollyweird turning history on its head.
I gave away my television years ago. I haven’t missed it for half a seventeenth of a twelveteenth of a metric second.
To which I might add that it was global warming or climate change which facilitated the settlement of Iceland, Greenland and even (for a short time) the northeastern coasts of North America.
Regarding the Berbers, they made the trek out of Europe a very long time ago ~ roughly the same time as the Sa'ami going up the coast to the Arctic ocean. They both have that Sa'ami origin X-factor gene sequence.
That's all a good 14,000 years ago.
Viking stuff is recent history/archaeology.
Somehow, I just can’t get the picture of a viking from one of those CapitalOne commercials humping a whale out of my mind.
This show appears to be produced by whoever also produces professional wrestling.
Doubtful; for the most part seafaring Vikings were traders, which why they set up their colony in North America (they traded metal for walrus ivory with the natives).
They interbred with whales?
By her dinner and a few drinks first?
LOL....That IS surprising.
Generations later:
Have a great trip. What’s your itinerary?
They mated with cetaceans? Wow, those vikings were tough guys. lol
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