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Re: Lego-Ideas.
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lugnet.general
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Sat, 5 Feb 2000 03:23:58 GMT
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Tony P wrote:
> That's not to say that I think the Vikings were disreputable: they
> weren't. If someone were to say 'Viking' to me, I'd think 'sea and >river faring explorers, traders and settlers' just before thinking >'artists and story tellers'.
> But that's probably not what most people think, as you've already
> admitted that you think the Vikings were bad :-)
Hey, some of my best friends are (SCA) Vikings! :-)
Seriously, the Vikings are being "rehabilitated" by historians at the
moment but I suspect that the pendulum is doing what it normally does
and swinging too far before ending up somewhere in the middle. The fact
that they were "'sea and >river faring explorers, traders and settlers'
and 'artists and story tellers' doesn't mean they didn't do a lot of
raping and pillaging in their forays around and into the rest of Europe.
There was a good reason people were afraid of them :-)
And yes, I would like to see a Viking theme, as well as Greeks and
Romans and Celts and others.
Kevin
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| On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Kevin Wilson (<389B97CE.70494074@...erve.com>) wrote at 03:23:58 (...) That's my point. If you look at all the LEGO themes, they've already *been* romanticised. eg. Western, Pirates, Castle. Give the historians a few more years' (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Kevin Wilson (<389B0A61.B5C7C29C@...erve.com>) wrote at 17:20:33 (...) It depends whose side you were on. (...) Ahh. Because Pirates have already been romanticised by others into friendly, mostly harmless sailors and scallywags. (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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