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

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tobus View Post
    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.
    not all nordic tribes where out to rape and pillage

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    Quote Originally Posted by skauwt View Post
    not all nordic tribes where out to rape and pillage
    However let's be clear here, they were armed and violent invaders and greatly feared all across Europe. Special prayers were written to prevent their 'visits'. That is an important part of history. Let's not get into what historians call 'presentism.'

    EDIT: I have to point out that by now BOTH sides were most everyone on this site's ancestors. And I can joke about my own family for goodness sake.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tobus View Post
    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.
    I'm sorry, being a Dane, to have to admit it, but yes. It was what it all was about, it is said. The beheaded men in question happened to be Norwegians, not Danes.

    Their teeth prove that the had lived farther north than people on the British isles.

    Greg

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    each to there own folks i just found the jokes a bit distasteful in a topic about over 50 dead men
    that's all i have to say on the issue

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    All right, it's settled then!

    We let bygones be bygones and because they did the beheading, the Anglo-Saxons buy the first round and because they were raping and pillaging, the Vikings have to buy the second round and after that everybody's on their own!

    Drink up, History Students! int:int:int:int:int:

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    Quote Originally Posted by auld argonian View Post
    All right, it's settled then!

    We let bygones be bygones and because they did the beheading, the Anglo-Saxons buy the first round and because they were raping and pillaging, the Vikings have to buy the second round and after that everybody's on their own!

    Drink up, History Students! int:int:int:int:int:

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    Fine by me, except that the Vikings have to go first. We Angles are not falling for that one again!
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    I'm (slowly) reading some of Bernard Cromwell's books. He, and perhaps others, makes a distinction between "Danes" who invaded with the intent of capturing lands to settle, eventually becoming part of the island mix, and "Vikings" who did the rape-and-pillage routine, then sailed away with their plunder. Sometimes they were members of the same family, with one brother becoming an "immigrant" and another continuing to raid. Interesting books although as "fictionalized history" I don't know what level of accuracy he maintains in the eyes of academic historians. He does describe encounters that could have left this particular type of archeological record. . .
    Proudly Duncan [maternal], MacDonald and MacDaniel [paternal].

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    Now in the U.K. they would be pampered and released to go and sack again. "Slainte" You All.

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