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

**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.

**skauwt** · 17th March 10, 10:34 AM

Originally Posted by Tobus

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

**Lallans** · 17th March 10, 10:50 AM

Originally Posted by skauwt

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.

GG · 17th March 10, 10:54 AM

Originally Posted by Tobus

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

**skauwt** · 17th March 10, 10:57 AM

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

**auld argonian** · 17th March 10, 11:04 AM

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!

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**Lallans** · 17th March 10, 11:13 AM

Originally Posted by auld argonian

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!

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Fine by me, except that the Vikings have to go first. We Angles are not falling for that one again!

**sydnie7** · 17th March 10, 01:16 PM

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. . .