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In lugnet.castle, Adrian Drake writes:
> Here's my latest creation, a Viking Longship with a mechanism that's used to
> make the oars row. It's also manned by ninja figs. Congratulations to the
> castleheads, another mostly spacehead has made the transition, at least
> temporarily :)
>
> Check it out, it's under the new castle heading of my web page.
Just want to point out that the classic "flared" and "bullet" helms are Norman
helms with chain coifs, and the Normans were what the Anglo-Saxons called the
Viking conquerors. :) So you *can* make Vikings. :)
Jeff
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| (...) Not exactly. The two terms are not really interchangeable; they were separated by a few hundred miles and several centuries. The Viking "conquerors" in England were called Danes (thus the term "Danelaw"); "Normans" was really reserved for (...) (23 years ago, 4-Aug-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.castle.ninja)
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