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Pictures: Mysterious Viking-era Graves Found With Treasure -- Who Was the Young Warrior?
National Geographic News ^
| Friday, December 16, 2011
| Traci Watson
Posted on 12/17/2011 5:27:43 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: Forgotten Amendments; SunkenCiv
National Geographic, The Smithsonian, Old Farmers Almanac, and a few others have all been infiltrated and all my subscriptions to them were cancelled years ago or allowed to expire if they were close enough to the expiry date anyway.
I will not allow leftist propaganda into my home, and no, I do not ever watch TV. Not even Fox.
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posted on
12/17/2011 8:13:25 PM PST
by
TheOldLady
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To: SunkenCiv
I read the whole thing on National Geo and got to thinking.
Maybe the warrior isn’t just someone close to King Sviatopolk the Accursed. Maybe the body IS Sviatopolk the Accursed.
After all, he was buried in Poland. Nyuk,nyuk,nyuk!
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posted on
12/17/2011 8:52:57 PM PST
by
wildbill
(You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
To: TheOldLady
"National Geographic, The Smithsonian, Old Farmers Almanac"
After having National Geo. in my life for over 40 years, I dropped it about 10 years ago when they cut down stories on mummies and jumped head first into the man-made global warming garbage. They can go to hell.
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posted on
12/17/2011 9:47:14 PM PST
by
Lockbar
(March toward the sound of the guns.)
To: SunkenCiv
Polish State Flag and Civil Ensign
They are SURE that is a Viking? I grew up staring at that Polish eagle.
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posted on
12/17/2011 10:50:57 PM PST
by
Explorer89
(And now, let the wild rumpus start!!)
To: jmcenanly
...it is possible that they were killed at the same time, at home, in a raid.
&&&
My thoughts exactly. When I read his comment “...it’s very hard to suppose she died at the same moment....” it struck me as nonsense.
I certainly am not knowledgeable in this area, so, unless there have been other similar archaeological finds which indicate that the woman was killed to be buried with the man, his comment here makes no sense.
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posted on
12/18/2011 4:28:53 AM PST
by
Bigg Red
(In this Advent season: Prepare ye the way of the Lord.)
To: Polynikes
I guess the burial scene at the beginning of 13th Warrior was more accurate than first thought.That scene was taken, in rough Hollywood fashion, from an actual account by an Arab ambassador to the Vikings in Ukraine who witnessed such a funeral.
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posted on
12/18/2011 5:39:57 AM PST
by
Paine in the Neck
(Where's he getting these ideas? He's not smart enough to be that stupid all by himself.)
To: Lockbar
Amen. Or I guess I should respond, "I agree," when someone says, "They can go to Hell."
Regardless, you're right.
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posted on
12/18/2011 7:50:07 AM PST
by
TheOldLady
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To: Explorer89
The eagle came from the Roman legions; the Varangians picked it up because of their service with the eastern remnant of the empire.
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posted on
12/18/2011 8:23:29 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Merry Christmas, Happy New Year! May 2013 be even Happier!)
To: SunkenCiv
Try telling that to the little old ladies in their babushkas that I grew up with. :)
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posted on
12/18/2011 8:41:20 AM PST
by
Explorer89
(And now, let the wild rumpus start!!)
To: SunkenCiv
Vikings believed that death was predetermined. It followed one about like a vulture.
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posted on
12/18/2011 3:33:50 PM PST
by
Beowulf9
To: Beowulf9
Thanks! Can’t really argue the negative of that one. :’)
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posted on
12/18/2011 5:56:35 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Merry Christmas, Happy New Year! May 2013 be even Happier!)
To: SunkenCiv
is this that odd? Harald III spent considerable time in Novgorod before and ofter going to Constantinople, and brought his first wife from there. One wonders if these people were related to his travels in some way.
To: SunkenCiv
I’ve read an account of a Viking female slave being sacrificed to be sent off to Valhalla with her master. Supposedly, she volunteered for the honor.
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