subtitle: Recent peaceful Viking rebrands are smashed in a vast and bloodthirsty show that will soon set sail for London
A violent animated backdrop to a reconstructed Viking warship
1 posted on
06/23/2013 5:12:39 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
...a Frankish law forbade selling swords to Vikings. They got them anyway, as the exhibits prove. Gasp! You mean they didn't obey laws controlling the proliferation of weapons? Inconceivable! Oh wait...
4 posted on
06/23/2013 5:26:18 AM PDT by
COBOL2Java
(I'm a christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
To: SunkenCiv
Wow. I’d love to see that.
6 posted on
06/23/2013 5:36:34 AM PDT by
EricT.
(Let me know when you've got a few million citizens ready for an armed march on D.C.)
To: SunkenCiv
"Some of my colleagues thought surely one sword is enough," archaeologist and co-curator Anne Pedersen said, "but I said no, one can never have too many swords."
Duh!
7 posted on
06/23/2013 5:47:08 AM PDT by
visualops
(artlife.us)
To: SunkenCiv
Viking sightings on Free Republic are considered to be some of the most terrifying experiences...They strike suddenly, sometimes without warning, and the only remains are a smelly burnt husk of ozone in these forums....
8 posted on
06/23/2013 5:57:33 AM PDT by
Bayard
To: SunkenCiv
9 posted on
06/23/2013 6:01:20 AM PDT by
JoeProBono
(Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
To: SunkenCiv
No Alex Baldwin quoting, “What’s in your wallet?”
10 posted on
06/23/2013 6:01:20 AM PDT by
oyez
(Hell is a gun free zone.)
To: SunkenCiv
15 posted on
06/23/2013 7:28:16 AM PDT by
winodog
To: SunkenCiv
Vikings....they were like the Schwanns guy, but in boats instead of yellow trucks.
17 posted on
06/23/2013 7:55:20 AM PDT by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: SunkenCiv
This thread is worthless without Picts!
Oh wait, this is about VIKINGS! Not Picts.
18 posted on
06/23/2013 8:05:05 AM PDT by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
To: SunkenCiv
19 posted on
06/23/2013 8:05:54 AM PDT by
dfwgator
To: SunkenCiv
What! No Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Vivian Leigh or Richard Widmark?
20 posted on
06/23/2013 8:06:30 AM PDT by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
To: SunkenCiv
"...in an exhibition opening in Copenhagen that will smash decades of good public relations for the Vikings as mild-mannered traders and farmers... " I must've missed the "kinder, gentler" Viking stereotype. Cultures that feature "berzerkers" and guys with names like "Eric Bloodaxe" don't sound sqeezably soft.
21 posted on
06/23/2013 8:12:01 AM PDT by
Flag_This
(Real presidents don't bow.)
To: SunkenCiv
It’s politically correct to portray Vikings as rapists and plunderers. This is what they brought to America < /sarc >.
Meanwhile every museum I’ve seen since 9-11-2001 has done countless exhibits on the art and technology of Islamist society.
The plunder and subjugation seems to get written out of those exhibits.
To: SunkenCiv
Today’s Scandinavians should take a leaf from their ancestors’ book, or a sword from their scabbard, and drive those damned Muslims out of their countries.
27 posted on
06/23/2013 3:08:11 PM PDT by
ZULU
((See: http://gatesofvienna.net/) Obama, do you hear me?)
To: SunkenCiv
"Eaters of the Dead" by Michael Crichton.
Great book about Vikings made into a movie: "The 13th Warrior"
31 posted on
06/24/2013 3:50:36 PM PDT by
Popman
(Godlessness is always the first step to the concentration camp.)
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