Posted on 02/05/2016 12:57:25 PM PST by beaversmom
"Look at the silver ring with the pretty red stone I brought you from our raid past the Pillars of Hercules!"
"Yeah, I noticed some raghead scratched something on it..."
"No problem. If it bothers you, it should polish right out..."
"Now, how's about a big smooch for ol' Olaf...?"
OP Courtesy Ping to #81...
Wow...interesting catch. Good eye!
The Viking meme is that of sea going warriors, but they also controlled vast swaths of Russia and the Ukraine as river traders and the Byzantine Empire hired them as their mercenary palace “Varangian Guard”.
There is also the enigmatic evidence presented in Prof. Felice Vinci’s book “The Baltic Origins of Homer’s Epic Tales” that the Vikings were proto Classical Greeks but this would require radical revision of historic dating schemes along the lines proffered by Prof. Gunnar Heinsohn. Google is your friend.
Exactly. Seems Vikings were into everything including my genetic code. I have done extensive genealogy, and see no Scandinavian Surnames in my family the past 400-500 years. Still somehow i’ve tested at 18% Scandinavian, (both identical results with FTDNA and Ancestry)
The expression “Viking” in medieval Scandinavia meant to go to sea. West Vikings were pirates, East Vikings, traders. It was almost certainly trade goods.
LOL
“The ring! Oh, no! I’ve got it, honey. Here it is. Here you go. She meant nothing to me. Nothing at all!”
Mohammed and Charlemagne: Epilogue
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“Trying to spin this into something more, such as some sort of cultural exchange program or something, is insanity unless you have a lot more evidence.”
So you’re saying that raiding and reiving are not forms of cultural exchange? Are you SURE of that? I could have sworn that most of those guys went looking for stuff their own culture didn’t have. I’m SURE that’s cultural exchange. My friend Conan said so! ;)
Old Student
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