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10/26/2011 | WesternCulture

Posted on 10/26/2011 1:59:25 PM PDT by WesternCulture

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To: WesternCulture
Why is it that movies and TV usually show Vikings using swords to do their nasty work?
Swords were a, largely, element of religious significance. The usual weapon for Vikings was the spear.
21 posted on 10/26/2011 2:26:26 PM PDT by curmudgeonII (Vocatus atque non vocatus deus aderit.)
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To: Parmenio

The way I understand it is that every Chief had a group of loyal bodyguards called the rus. There is speculation some Chiefs sailed in their shallow draft ships up what is now known as the Volga and some eventually settled in the area. Somehow the name Rus became Russia??


22 posted on 10/26/2011 2:27:28 PM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (Millions of government bureaucrats are gang raping and choking the life out of America.)
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To: WesternCulture

Poltava.

Before, Sweden was one of the Great Powers.

Afterwards, not so much.


23 posted on 10/26/2011 2:29:10 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: curmudgeonII
The usual weapon for Vikings was the spear.

True. Swords were extremely expensive and limited mostly to nobles and leaders. Take too much iron/steel and especially too much highly skilled labor to make one.

Any village blacksmith could make a perfectly good spear in short order. Or an axe, which was the other major Viking weapon.

24 posted on 10/26/2011 2:32:24 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: WesternCulture

Julius Evola ping....


25 posted on 10/26/2011 2:32:34 PM PDT by Noumenon (The only 'NO' a liberal understands is the one that arrives at muzzle velocity.)
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To: WesternCulture

Brian Boru drove the Vikings out of Ireland at the Battle of Contarf, 1014.


26 posted on 10/26/2011 2:33:00 PM PDT by Cuchulain (r)
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To: WesternCulture
Drunk again, I see.

Muslim Rape Epidemic Puts Sweden at Top of Euro Rape Statistics

27 posted on 10/26/2011 2:39:13 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it. (plagiarized))
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To: Navy Patriot

Plentiful booze, diminishing sunlight and national inferiority complex rear their ugly heads once again this year.


28 posted on 10/26/2011 2:58:10 PM PDT by SnuffaBolshevik ("The trouble with internet quotations is that you don't know if they are true"-Abraham Lincoln.)
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To: arrogantsob

The Normans were a handful of Norse and a whole lotta’ Breton.


29 posted on 10/26/2011 3:03:59 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Cuchulain

The DNA in Dublin shows otherwise ~ not that Brian Boru didn’t win a fight or two, but all the Vikings didn’t leave. Else Ireland would have had no cities and ports.


30 posted on 10/26/2011 3:07:23 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: READINABLUESTATE

That’s how I heard it too. The name that sticks in my mind is Rurvik, who I believe is counted as the first Tsar.


31 posted on 10/26/2011 3:08:03 PM PDT by Parmenio
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To: SnuffaBolshevik
Yep, although I am grateful to the Norsk for adventuresome spirit, courage and small ships against great seas.
32 posted on 10/26/2011 3:24:20 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it. (plagiarized))
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To: Cicero
Her æþelstan cyning, eorla dryhten, beorna beahgifa, and his broþor eac,

That's easy for you to say

33 posted on 10/26/2011 3:24:32 PM PDT by Mr. K (We need a TEA Party march on GOP headquarters ~!!)
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To: arrogantsob

I’ll stand with you, my Viking brother. Please add me to the Norse list. My family came over with William in 1066 and we’re in the Doomsday Book”!


34 posted on 10/26/2011 3:37:13 PM PDT by WellyP (REAL)
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To: Paul Ross

Not the kind of Viking kitten I had in mind!


35 posted on 10/26/2011 3:39:22 PM PDT by WellyP (REAL)
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To: Paul Ross

Not the kind of Viking kitten I had in mind!


36 posted on 10/26/2011 3:41:50 PM PDT by WellyP (REAL)
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To: Paul Ross

Not the kind of Viking kitten I had in mind!


37 posted on 10/26/2011 3:41:54 PM PDT by WellyP (REAL)
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To: bkepley

Russians don’t do well in war.

This is what happens to silly Russians who threaten the strongest nation on Earth.

If you challenge Sweden, you’ll get taught a hard lesson.

We outweigh any of you in terms of muscle, performance and size.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF0rtJtQm4g


38 posted on 10/26/2011 3:43:07 PM PDT by WesternCulture
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To: muawiyah

You are partly correct. The cities of Dublin, Waterford, Wexford, Limerick and Cork were original Viking settlements. The first recorded raid by Vikings in Ireland occured in 795 and for the next 200+ years they occupied parts of Ireland and did in some cases assimilate with the Irish. It is actually a fascinating period in Ireland. After 200 years of conflict, Brian Boru united the Irish for a final battle that virtually ended the Viking age in Ireland in the year of 1014.


39 posted on 10/26/2011 3:43:16 PM PDT by Cuchulain (r)
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To: Cuchulain

There’s even more to be said.

If you really have a death wish, attack Sweden.

You think your nation could stand up to the toughest soldiers on Earth?

Here are the settings, you will fail big time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nKco02uBDA


40 posted on 10/26/2011 4:05:00 PM PDT by WesternCulture
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