VIKINGS!

[DuneElliot]

Very cool...although not loving the Xena comparison! Lol

 

[TrainChaser]

"The high ranking Viking was buried in Sweden in the mid-10th century along with weapons and two horses, leading archaeologists and historians to assume she was a man..."

Men have ALWAYS known that women couldn't drive  truck, be doctors, build houses, understand radiation or think constructively.  :huh: :s    Or be scientists.

 

[Every Road Leads Home]

More Viking news, hunter found an 1100 year old viking sword in excellent condition, it was sitting on rocks/pebbles and not stuck in soil so it was much better preserved and in high altitudes.

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2017...00-year-old-weapon-on-norwegian-mountain.html

 

[JustACarSoFar]

Being from MN I thought the thread was about football...   but I dig it!  

 

[DuneElliot]

I'm ready to get the Long House back today. Home has been in the shop while I was backpacking for a week. Ugh...I want my bed.

 

[Swede]

Viking age here in Sweden where between 700-1100 AD. If you want to learn a bit more about it without having to dive deep into facts
i suggest these two (four) books.

The Crusades Trilogy: The Road to Jerusalem, The Templar Knight, and Birth of the Kingdom
By Jan Guillou. 

It´s a "semi-fictional" book based on history (Some of the caracters are fictional, but the events are real).
It depicts how Sweden/Norway/Denmark went from small scattered "tribes" into larger Kingdoms. 
* really good read, but do not download the movies made based on these books, they suuuuuuuuck! *

Or The Long Ships / Röde Orm by Frans G. Bengtsson. Set in the later Viking Age.

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[Ballenxj]

Viking age here in Sweden where between 700-1100 AD. If you want to learn a bit more about it without having to dive deep into facts
i suggest these two (four) books.

The Crusades Trilogy: The Road to Jerusalem, The Templar Knight, and Birth of the Kingdom
By Jan Guillou. 

It´s a "semi-fictional" book based on history (Some of the caracters are fictional, but the events are real).
It depicts how Sweden/Norway/Denmark went from small scattered "tribes" into larger Kingdoms. 
* really good read, but do not download the movies made based on these books, they suuuuuuuuck! *

Or The Long Ships / Röde Orm by Frans G. Bengtsson. Set in the later Viking Age.

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Curious, the Knights Templar are intertwined with Vikings? I'll be glad when you have enough posts to be able to post those links.

 

[Swede]

Curious, the Knights Templar are intertwined with Vikings? I'll be glad when you have enough posts to be able to post those links.

How much Knights Templar and Vikings had contact is up for debate. The last 20-30 years there have been a major academic debate about how much they affected the development here in Scandinavia. 
Carvings and artefacts found in one of the first churches depicts scenes where a person dressed like a Night Templar pays a group of people to build a church in honour of Jesus. It is about this time, 1000 ad, we started converting to christianity, so...it might be correct. 

Some other things also point to the fact that the Vikings had contact and trade with the Middle East much earlier than known before. 4-5 years ago Rings, coins and similar things from 800 AD with Arabic writing where found in a Viking tomb. 

So we now know that Vikings had contact with Middle East and the city of Jerusalem, during the time when the Crusade went on. 
It also seems like that until 1189 AD Vikings (I guess they where more like..Soldiers for hire..) participated and actually fought with the Night Templars and Richard the Lionheart for the control of Jerusalem. 
The Muslims won and the crusaders and surviving Europeans and Scandinavians where sent home with their tail between their legs.....

 

[Ballenxj]

How much Knights Templar and Vikings had contact is up for debate. The last 20-30 years there have been a major academic debate about how much they affected the development here in Scandinavia. 
Carvings and artefacts found in one of the first churches depicts scenes where a person dressed like a Night Templar pays a group of people to build a church in honour of Jesus. It is about this time, 1000 ad, we started converting to christianity, so...it might be correct. 

Some other things also point to the fact that the Vikings had contact and trade with the Middle East much earlier than known before. 4-5 years ago Rings, coins and similar things from 800 AD with Arabic writing where found in a Viking tomb. 

So we now know that Vikings had contact with Middle East and the city of Jerusalem, during the time when the Crusade went on. 
It also seems like that until 1189 AD Vikings (I guess they where more like..Soldiers for hire..) participated and actually fought with the Night Templars and Richard the Lionheart for the control of Jerusalem. 
The Muslims won and the crusaders and surviving Europeans and Scandinavians where sent home with their tail between their legs.....

 Funny how the more we learn, we find how little we actually knew. I love learning more about Viking history. Thank You.

 

[John61CT]

Trade routes

 

[Swede]

Trade routes

This look exactly like the trip i planned for next year...  0_o

 

[Ballenxj]

This look exactly like the trip i planned for next year...  0_o

That'll keep you busy.

 

[lenny flank]

This look exactly like the trip i planned for next year...  0_o

Maybe you can get a danegeld or two along the way......

 

[cyndi]

The Viking ship Draken is in Portland, ME for Portland Tall Ships

If you're near Portland you can enjoy the "Draken Experience"

If not you can enjoy the pictures
 
http://tallshipsportland.org/drakenvisitsmaine

And here

https://www.drakenhh.com/about-the-ship/

 

[lenny flank]

Awww, what a sweet-looking boat.

Wassal !!!!!

 

[mert6706]

Only if you get rid of the Viking with the horned helmet...Viking helmets didn't have horns, that was the artistic imagination of Carl Emil Doepler who horned helmets for the first Bayreuth Festival production of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen.

That's just scary!!