Decapitated bodies found in Dorset burial pit were executed Vikings - mirror.co.uk

**BoldHighlander** · 17th March 10, 12:53 AM

Interesting...

Decapitated bodies found in Dorset burial pit were executed Vikings

By Mirror.co.uk 11/03/2010

Fifty beheaded young men found in a burial pit last year were probably executed Vikings, archaeologists revealed today.

Teeth samples from 10 of the decapitated warriors discovered in Weymouth, in Dorset, show that they were Scandinavian invaders who fell into the hands of Anglo Saxons.

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**cessna152towser** · 17th March 10, 02:48 AM

I guess Oddern and co. will need to be careful when they invade Scotland next week!

**Lallans** · 17th March 10, 06:06 AM

Are we sure there was no football involved?

**Spc. Scott** · 17th March 10, 07:02 AM

Originally Posted by Canuck of NI

Are we sure there was no football involved?

Now that's funny!

Mind your neck Oddern!!!!

**tulloch** · 17th March 10, 07:35 AM

Was a tough life by any standard. Interesting to consider the circumstances & the parties involved. Survival was at stake for the winners. Did word get back? Was there retaliation? Did they stay away?

**auld argonian** · 17th March 10, 08:14 AM

Originally Posted by Canuck of NI

Are we sure there was no football involved?

Maybe that was how/why the football was invented.

"Look here, chaps, this is pointless...we cut off your heads, you cut off our heads...can't we think of some way to settle things that doesn't involve decapitation? It's just so messy and final....I mean, I know that life is supposed to be nasty, brutish and short but seriously I don't think that it's supposed to be this nasty, brutish and short..."

Hey...if you've been dead for less than a hundred years, you're the "dearly departed". Over a hundred years and you're "archaeology".

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**Tony** · 17th March 10, 09:28 AM

Vikings obviously couldn't find t-shirts that said "I'm not a grockle*, I live here".
Or maybe they did, but their helmets ripped them to shreds as they tried to put them on.

*tourist

**skauwt** · 17th March 10, 09:54 AM

Originally Posted by tulloch

Was a tough life by any standard. Interesting to consider the circumstances & the parties involved. Survival was at stake for the winners. Did word get back? Was there retaliation? Did they stay away?

yeah i too was thinking about this it makes me thankful that the nations we live in these days are a bit more civil with immigrants rather than the treatment of days gone by
i was wondering if they would perhaps dna test the bodies of the men and try trace a modern genetic descendant
alot of folk forget that these where men like the rest of the us trying to survive and in there harsh world,

some of the jokes fair enough are fun to read but a little bit distasteful of our ancestors ...... would they say the same about modern soldiers killed in combat in this manner ?

**pdcorlis** · 17th March 10, 10:22 AM

Funny, I do the same thing to under-performing students...

**Tobus** · 17th March 10, 10:26 AM

yeah i too was thinking about this it makes me thankful that the nations we live in these days are a bit more civil with immigrants rather than the treatment of days gone by

Is that what we're calling the Vikings now? "Immigrants"?

I'm fairly certain they were more like armed invaders who liked to rape and pillage. But I could be wrong.