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In lugnet.boats, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
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In lugnet.pirates, Olof Dahlberg wrote:
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Here are some links for more info:
Intact viking ship with data and links to other ships (Swedish site):
http://susning.nu/Gokstadsskeppet
Images (new and ancient) and pictures of newly made ships (also in Swedish,
with part ot the text in english):
http://axelnelson.com/skepp/ovriga.html
http://axelnelson.com/skepp/ovvik.htm
Link collection with many pictures and old and new ships:
http://www.vikingship.net/
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In addition there’s the Museum of Viking Ships in Roskilde, Denmark:
http://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/
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Thanks, guys, for the great links! These will help me a lot.
I read that the Vikings didn’t use saws to make their boats. That’s pretty
amazing.
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PS: Any chance we’ll get a “lugnet.vikings” group?
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Ha! Well, you know I’d love to, but I’d take flak from the masses for being even
more of a compartmentalized dork, right? ;-)
In my own defense, here’s an amusing quote I came across, from this book:
A Brief History of the Vikings:
The Last Pagans or the First Modern Europeans? by Jonathan Clements
“The Vikings, in their explorations and conquests, undoubtedly achieved much.
However it must be admitted that the leading edge of their expansion chiefly
comprised thugs, brigands and outlaws. Latter-day apologists have attempted to
soften the image but, by definition, the word Viking refers to pirates. A
Viking is categorically not a flaxen-haired maiden making attractive jewellery
by the side of a picturesque fjord, no matter what some museum curators may
imply.”
So there you have it. Vikings are Pirates! (thereby making Pirates all that
much cooler of a theme, and demonstrating superiority to the Castle theme’s
pitiful Ninjas) ;-) <-- big winkie there.
For the heck of it, here’s another quote, where they’re defined by their being
“not civilized”:
“Vikings were the rejects of Scandinavian society [...]. It was a Viking who
kept his retarded son chained like a beast outside his house, a Viking who
attempted to skin a horse alive, and a Viking who hacked off a pig’s snout to
prove a point.”
Come to think of it, maybe Castle people wouldn’t want to be associated with
this bunch of Berserkers anyway!
-Suz
x-posted to lugnet.pirates and admin.suggestions (because of the newsgroup
inquiry)
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