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Re: When will the Vikings raid the US?
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lugnet.general
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Sun, 21 Aug 2005 05:13:13 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Brendan Powell Smith wrote:
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Thanks to everyone for the info on the Viking sets. Looks like I won’t be
able to put them on my wishlist for my birthday in early September, but I am
certainly glad to hear that these sets *will* be available in the US.
Because, you know, they’re awesome.
I was just reading about the rise and fall of the Viking settlements in
Greenland in Jared Diamond’s Collapse, and it got me all excited to get the
new sets. I wonder if the Inuit will appear as the Vikings’ nemesis in the
2006 sets. Or maybe it will be soil erosion.
-Brendan
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Hey Brendan, in an aside on your Biblical scenes, you should do one of the
Vikings landing at England’s Lindisfarne Island and pillaging the monastery in
AD 883 (it shocked all of Christendom). You could show the surviving monks
carrying off the casket of St. Cuthbert, which according to legend they carried
around for over 120 years before settling the casket in Durham, also in the far
north of England. This is the shrine around which Durham Cathedral was built.
Gary Istok
P.S. What no Beserker minifigs? I was hoping for some frothing mouthed
Vikings! :-)
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| (...) That might be fun. I'm not sure I'll be doing any serious "asides" before I finish the Bible (circa 2013), but when I think about what non-Biblical material would be most fun to illustrate in LEGO, I do tend to think along the lines of "famous (...) (19 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| Thanks to everyone for the info on the Viking sets. Looks like I won't be able to put them on my wishlist for my birthday in early September, but I am certainly glad to hear that these sets *will* be available in the US. Because, you know, they're (...) (19 years ago, 21-Aug-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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