Crystal Amulet Poses Question On Early Christianity (Denmark - 100AD)

Denmark DK ^ | 3-9-2007

[AnAmericanMother]

Far as I'm concerned, they were ALL a buncha bad-@$$es.

Wasn't it Gunnar who played the harp with his feet in the snake pit? And Atli who threw him in?

[Siobhan]

Without a doubt!

Yes, in Atlamol and in the Greenland Lay of Atli Gunnar meets his death while his hands are bound and he plays the harp with his feet. Atli sent him into the pit of snakes. Rough crowd!

[SunkenCiv]

The essence of Buddhism is, after all, every man for himself. ;')

[AnAmericanMother]

And his second wife Guthrun eventually kills him after cooking and serving him his children, or something like that?

(it's all coming back! I took that blinking course in 1974!)

I think my prof said that Atli is supposed to be Attila the Hun?

[Siobhan]

Yes! Attila. And Guthrun is one of the Huns' shield-maidens who become the prototype for the Valkyrie.

[AnAmericanMother]

You know, sometimes I complain about living here and now . . . but BOY am I glad I wasn't around then!

[AnAmericanMother]

And they all wind up in Wagner, in various disguises.

Wow.

[Siobhan]

Imagine what Wagner would do with this crystal amulet if he had known about it!

[Andrew Byler]

Nothing beats having a sword named "Life-Taker" to go with one of those Viking names. That, and fights with Skraelings.

[GoLightly]

I think 4th century is a little early for Kievian Rus Christians. While looking for an alphabet that had all of the letters on the bauble, came across a site that converts names into Runes.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vikings/runes.html

[AnAmericanMother]

That's cooler than the Rheingold . . .

[GoLightly]

I'm sure all of my Viking ancestors were nuttin but peaceful fun loving individuals & the nasty names they used were only meant to intimidate, hoping to prevent all of meanies around them from thinking they were gonna be easy pickins. :D

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

You might have a name like "Olaf the Stout!"

[gitmogrunt]

"That's funny. I can't find any reference to Rosaries or crosses as amulets either. I must be missing the same pages."

Holy cow!! You're right about that!...but could you please check your bible and see if it's missing the pages referring to statues and icons, like mine is?

Some folks is gonna be mighty upset about all this ya know.

[GoLightly]

Some folks is gonna be mighty upset about all this ya know.

If you spend your life appeasing those with the tendency to be terminally upset, you validate it.

[gitmogrunt]

"If you spend your life appeasing those with the tendency to be terminally upset, you validate it.

I know this might be off the topic but,would you mind telling me how long have you been talking to my fiance or do you have ESP?

[Siobhan]

The Vikings actually made it very far south passing through Kievan Rus to parts below where they would have encountered a mix of Greeks, Armenians, Georgians and others.

[SuziQ]

Ah! So they had come from the Near East, the Levant and Egypt!

What a cool site! Our daughter became fascinted with this study when it first came out, and spent HOURS on the Atlas site.

[blam]

"What a cool site! "

Yes it is. I'm anxiously awaiting my DNA results I submitted to them.

[blam]

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