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!!!!

**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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**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?

**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 ?

**Peter C.** · 17th March 10, 10:47 AM

Originally Posted by skauwt

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 ?

Firstly, people carrying out raids on monasteries around the coast and killing defenceless people are hardly immigrants.

Secondly. none of the jokes were derogatory to the people who died.

I think most people have respect for the Vikings of old.

So lets not find fault with posts when no fault exists.

Peter

**auld argonian** · 17th March 10, 10:50 AM

Originally Posted by skauwt

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 ?

I guess that the irony of my statement about the "dear departed" and "archaeology" didn't quite translate as well into text as I would have liked it to.

It has been said that comedy is tragedy plus time. I wonder if "Up Pompeii" would have been quite so funny if that weren't true...but I suppose that some of us who have tried to find a bit of humor in what, at the time, must have been a tragically serious business probably feel a bit more separation from the parties involved. We are looking at a thousand years here. Frankly, we will never know what really happened there and most of us have bloodlines that are so complicated that the participants must be considered our ancestors only in a very general sense and the political entities (such as they were) that they represented have long since been folded and absorbed into others over and over again until today. Everything dies and it's always a tragedy but human beings have had to learn to find ways to adapt to those facts in order to carry on living...humor is one of those coping mechanisms.

Humor out of tragedy? Hogan's Heroes, a situation COMEDY based on Allied combatants who were held in a German POW camp, ran for SIX seasons...and my Uncle Joe, who was a "guest of the German Government" just like the guys in the TV show, watched it religiously and thought that it was the funniest frickin' thing that he ever saw.

So I'm sorry if you find any of the attempts at humor distasteful. It takes all kinds...

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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