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To: navymom1

“In 845, the Viking raider and extortionist extraordinary Ragnar Lothbrok slipped up the Seine with 120 ships—an estimated 5,000 men—to Paris, where King Charles the Bald paid him 7,000 pounds of gold and silver to leave in peace.

A contemporary wrote that “never had [Ragnar] seen, he said, lands so fertile and so rich, nor ever a people so cowardly.”


24 posted on 04/01/2013 8:49:07 PM PDT by Old Griz
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To: Old Griz

Soooo,
It seems then that the French have been pussies for at least 1168 years?


36 posted on 04/02/2013 3:26:23 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO))
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