'Pillaging' Vikings unmasked as eco warriors

Yorkshire Post ^ | 02 Dec 2009 | Paul Jeeves

[calex59]

Of course they recycled metal, so did every other army that used metal weapons at the time, they didn't do it to be "eco friendly" but because it was easier and cheaper to recycle broken weapons than to mine new metal, especially with the mining techniques and the cost of transporting ore and finished metal in that time period.

These people are desperate to make our current civilization seem like the greedy plunderers when compared to past times, it just isn't true.

[beebuster2000]

180 miles in 4 days. thats a heck of a forced march.

[Einherjar]

next thing you know they will be telling us that the Vikings we led into this battle by Algor the Red.

[colorado tanker]

Of course they recycled, metal was expensive and relatively scarce compared to today.

Next thing you know they'll claim the Vikings only slaughtered their opponents to fight overpopulation.

[SunkenCiv]

/bingo

[SunkenCiv]