Vikings were terrifying

[Quasar44]

Could you imagine a bunch of big ,bearded thugs running at you with axes !!
Everyone knew that dying in battle was a gift and a trip to Valhalla

 

[Rambunctious]

 

[Asclepias]

What Vikings really looked like

Were Vikings really dirty savages who wore horned helmets, or did they look like we do today? Here’s what the experts say.

sciencenordic.com

 

[EvilCat Breath]

They farmed Greenland. Greenland must have been warmer and more verdant.

So much for global warming.

 

[OldLady]

From the Spillings Hoard

 

[OldLady]

Beowulf was an awesome Vikings tale. Lots of mead drinking, monster slaying, and the tear jerker ending, with his funeral ship floating away in flames. Good stuff. Worth a read.

 

[the other mike]

Beowulf was an awesome Vikings tale. Lots of mead drinking, monster slaying, and the tear jerker ending, with his funeral ship floating away in flames. Good stuff. Worth a read.

Required reading in my 10th grade Literature class. It was okay.

 

[Bleipriester]

Could you imagine a bunch of big ,bearded thugs running at you with axes !!
Everyone knew that dying in battle was a gift and a trip to Valhalla

They were also slave and sex slave traders. Some even say they were the Philistines.

 

[the other mike]

They were also slave and sex slave traders. Some even say they were the Philistines.

They say the most brutal Nordic tribes weren't the Vikings, but
the Packers.

 

[Foreigner Looking In.]

They farmed Greenland. Greenland must have been warmer and more verdant.

So much for global warming.

Yes, they described Iceland as being covered in decidious woodland.

 

[Foreigner Looking In.]

The Vikings had their asses handed to them by Brian Boru, Chieftain of Ireland in the Battle of Clontarf.

 

[Foreigner Looking In.]

 

[surada]

Could you imagine a bunch of big ,bearded thugs running at you with axes !!
Everyone knew that dying in battle was a gift and a trip to Valhalla

Saudi Aramco World : Among the Norse Tribes: The ...
AramcoWorld : Indexes : Back Issues : 2010s › issue › 199906 › among...
We would in fact know little about these Rus, these Norsemen in the East, were it not for Muslim chroniclers, Ibn Fadlan, whose ninth-century Risala (Letter) is the richest account of all, kept a journal that details his encounters with the Rus along the Volga, as well as with many other

 

[surada]

In 921, the Arab traveler Ahmad ibn Fadlan (fl. 920s) went on a diplomatic mission to what is now Russia. There he encountered numerous Turkic peoples, among them the Khazars, one of the few groups in history outside of Israel to adopt Judaism. But perhaps the most memorable passages in the Risala, his account of his journeys, concern the Varangians, a group of Vikings known by a term that would eventually become the name of the surrounding country itself: Rus.

Ibn Fadlan: An Arab Among the Vikings of Russia ...
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[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

Could you imagine a bunch of big ,bearded thugs running at you with axes !!
Everyone knew that dying in battle was a gift and a trip to Valhalla

Praise Woden and Thor.

Dead commies or Valhalla!!!

Machine guns or Valhalla!!!

 

[OldLady]

Beowulf was an awesome Vikings tale. Lots of mead drinking, monster slaying, and the tear jerker ending, with his funeral ship floating away in flames. Good stuff. Worth a read.

Required reading in my 10th grade Literature class. It was okay.

I really liked it, my students liked it. We drew pictures of Grendell's mother.

 

[the other mike]

I really liked it, my students liked it. We drew pictures of Grendell's mother.

In high school assignment reading, my favorite books were anything by Mark Twain, Orwell's 1984, Moby Dick and The Outsiders.

 

[OldLady]

I really liked it, my students liked it. We drew pictures of Grendell's mother.

In high school assignment reading, my favorite books were anything by Mark Twain, Orwell's 1984, Moby Dick and The Outsiders.

Good picks. I hated 1984, though.
The Vikings, now ...
They were truly cosmopolitan, traded as far east as Afghanistan, all over Europe, the Middle East. They bathed regularly and cleaned their ears. They found North America way before the Europeans, but they kept it to themselves, because who gives up their best fishing spot?

 

[harmonica]

The Vikings had their asses handed to them by Brian Boru, Chieftain of Ireland in the Battle of Clontarf.

....sure, that was after the Vikings kicked A$$

 

[harmonica]

..that's like saying Victorian England were losers because they lost one battle