Posted on 03/28/2014 7:16:33 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
1. Bjorn Lodbrok has a worse haircut than Kim Jong Un.
2. Beware the Duke of Earl...Haraldson.
3. In Viking vs Viking battles, those wearing plain brown hoodies are doomed to die.
4. Viking trophy wives are high maintenance.
5. Ragnar Lodbrok is a secret humanitarian.
6. Although the Vikings had extensive contacts with North German Saxons, they were unaware of the existence of England until they arrived there.
7. Eighth century Viking women had the sensibilities of 21st century feminists.
8. No-Fault Viking divorce is quick and easy. No lawyers!
9. The Church punished apostate monks by crucifying them and doing their best to make them appear like Jesus including a crown of thorns and a lance in the side.
10. If an English king invites you to go skinny dipping with him in his swimming pool, you better start worrying about his sexual orientation.
11. Kattegat got absorbed by the Jarl Borg because he was dissed.
12. Rollo has an arm covered with L.A. Ink tattoos.
13. Ragnar Lodbrok is really a good ol' boy country farmer.
14. Viking soothsayers give accurate predictions if you are willing to lick their disgusting hands.
15. Rollo can grab a red hot knife for a full 10 seconds without displaying the slightest bit of pain and his hand will show no ill effects.
16. There is no Viking word for “foreplay.”
17. If you listen carefully to Old Saxon, in less than a minute it will sound exactly like modern English.
18. Hidden church treasure can always be found beneath the altar floorboards.
19. Lutefisk is the Viking MRE of choice when going on raiding parties.
20. Surving a battle is a bummer if you want to enter Valhalla.
21. Viking Duck Dynasty hunted birds with bows and arrows.
22. One of Ragnar's sons grew up to become Kirk Douglas and the other became Tony Curtis with an exotic Bronx accent.
Hand saws yes.
Not saws powered by gasoline or electricity.
I said “Power Saw”. Too smooth and even for hand saws, as there is no reason to be that precise for fire wood, or exterior logs!!
Sorry, but that’s just being nit-picky and annoying. You’re watching a show and the thing that jumps out at you is that the sawn ends of the logs are too smoothly cut to have been all hand-sawn? Really? That’s the thing that distracts you? That’s a bit tedious.
LOL! I can’t wait get to the part they said if go beyond season 4 or 5 they may introduce the Russians part
Also I think in season 3 we may be introduce to Alfred the Great really first King of England
I learned that Lagertha is way hotter than the princess chick.
I learned that Ragnar cares more about having more sons than keeping a smokin’ hot blonde happy.
I learned that the new larger Bjern is developing into a badass but I still miss the younger Bjern.
I learned that Floki is one seriously weird dude, but he’s also a hellova fighter and has become one of my favorite characters.
I didn’t learn anything.
I don’t think that this is not something you’re supposed to learn anything from.
I just enjoyed the story telling.
+1
Season 3? At the pace they're going at now, I wouldn't expect to see Alfred the Great until season 4 or 5.
Season 1 had 9, count them, 9 episodes, and I see no reason to believe that season 2 will not follow suit, which means we're about halfway into season 2.
Ragnar Lodbrok is still among the living at this point, and it was his death, and the manner thereof which was the proximate cause (read: excuse) for "The Great Pagan Invasion" which propelled a young King Alfred of Wessex to the prominence he had in stopping, but not being able to reverse.
To do justice to that, in the manner in which the producers of the series have elected to pursue, would require a very quick time jump, which I don't think we'll see...
the infowarrior
I often have discussions with a co-worker who is following the series, and I made the following observation to him. The character Floki, and his woman are both borderline sociopaths living on the fringes of the society they are purportedly members of. They both suffer from the same inability to fully integrate into their own society, and thus live apart from "mainstream Kattegatt". That said, they both provide essential services to the community they are marginally part of, in an excellent fashion so they are not discriminated against.
Part of Floki's 'weirdness' stems from his over-compensating in defending the culture he is living on the fringes of against outsiders to the culture. Shrinks would have a real field day analyzing the two of them...
the infowarrior
Probably as accurate as NOAH
I noticed that Ragnar’s hands are always filthy.
Ramius, Not being Nit-Picky!! Look at the name of the thread, and some of the comments!! Just something I noticed, and decided to make a comment!!
They invented the Molotov cocktail.
“15. Rollo can grab a red hot knife for a full 10 seconds without displaying the slightest bit of pain and his hand will show no ill effects.”
I learned that the Vikings must have had extremely talented plastic surgeons. The huge gash/scar down Rollo’s face has healed without a trace.
One thing I learned from the norskiis that they have fallen so far that they are below the outhouse in my baclyard
Oy vey.....
Can’t have enough Jax/Ragnor IMHO.....
Did you also notice they blow their noses into the water they wash up with?
Ah, good times.......
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