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Re: Vikings?
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Wed, 2 Feb 2005 16:58:18 GMT
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Are you using the term Viking here where you should prehaps be using the
term Norsemen ? I always thought that 'Viking' was a term for the Warriors.
Various online encyclopaedias seem to agree with this..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikings for example.
quote : The name Viking is a loan from the native Scandinavian term for the
Norse seafaring warriors who raided the coasts of Scandinavia, Europe and
the British Isles from the late 8th century to the 11th century, the period
of European history referred to as the Viking Age.
I am of course not from the area while you are so prehaps I should bow to
your knowlage :)
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James Stacey
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I'm a citizen of Legoland travellin' Incommunicado
"Arne Lykke Nielsen" <arln@wanadoo.dk> wrote in message
news:IBAFp5.24sG@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.castle, Johannes Koehler wrote:
> >
> > I say the Vikings are both Pirates and Castle because the Vikings were • Pirates
> > (robberers comming over the sea) in Castle times. They are the link • between the
> > two themes.
>
> While this IS the popular thought on Vikings, its not the historical • correct
> one.
> The Vikings was first of all explorers, conquerors, farmers and • merchants -
> exploring Russia, Iceland, Greenland, North America, and conquering • England,
> Ireland and Northern France.
> Only a few Vikings were raiders, raiding what they could get their hands • on,
> including other Viking settlements; basically, your normal neighborhood
> criminals.
> And Vikings didn't build fortresses; they build villages and a few • exceptional
> round earthwork military forts (4 are known, all in Denmark), but there • are no
> mentioning or remnants of wooden fortresses like the ones depictured by • Lego and
> Playmobil.
>
> Arne, Copenhagen (Viking descendant, like so many others around the world)
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| (...) I'd say that definition is a bit 'narrow'. As far as we learn from *our* history books, 'Vikings' are the name given to almost all inhabitants in Norway, Denmark and Sweden (and later Iceland and Greenland), maybe excluding the northernmost (...) (20 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) And I'm not English speaking, so perhaps "Viking" in English do mean what you quote. But the term "Viking" in Danish mean the Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and Icelandic seafaring PEOPLE of the 8th to 11th century, not just the few raiders. And (...) (20 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) While this IS the popular thought on Vikings, its not the historical correct one. The Vikings was first of all explorers, conquerors, farmers and merchants - exploring Russia, Iceland, Greenland, North America, and conquering England, Ireland (...) (20 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.castle)
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