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To: ZULU
I can’t believe this government of pusillanimous idiots once spawned Vikings.

Didn't the Vikings originate in Denmark? I'm sure they eventually populated Sweden and Norway.

16 posted on 10/10/2012 7:24:13 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: JimRed

No. Danish vikings raided the continent and England, Norweigan Vikings raided mainly Ireland, Scotland and points west. Swedes operated mainly in the Baltic and later in Russia.

But they were very mobile and vikings from different parts of Scandinavia operated in all theaters of the Viking expansion.

At that time, Danish, Swedish and Norweigan were so close that they were practically just dialects of Old Norse the common language.

Even Anglo-Saxon (aka Old English)was very close to Old Norse.


18 posted on 10/10/2012 7:38:16 AM PDT by ZULU (See video: http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-first-siege-of-vienna.html)
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