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Old April 11th, 2014 #2
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Notice things Viking feature a pleasant combination of rough-hewn and intricate. Kind of like VNN's style, actually.

Most noticeably in the gold-banded wood bowl or bucket, you can perceive that irregularity has charms perfection lacks. The item is simply more interesting than something machine produced and flawless would be. This style can be incorporated into anything, including writing. People should always be a little unsure, a little worried, about what's coming next - like the parents and vile urchins following Wonka perhaps into the geheimste (secretest) room in the chocolate factory.

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Old April 11th, 2014 #3
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Hurstwic Viking Age History. Informative useful resource.
http://www.hurstwic.com/history/text/history.htm
 
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Here are some English words we took from the norse/vikings

Their system of law was called a "Ting" or "Thing" which is where our word originated.

Some of the days of the week are named after Norse Gods: Tyrsday, Wotansday, Thorsday, Freyasday.

The verb "brag" is named after the Poet Braggi.

The word "lock" is from the Norse god Loki. (Might be incorrect.. Upon further research I think they're both derived from the Indo-European root *leug)

The word "berserk"


Will add more when I think of them
 
Old April 11th, 2014 #5
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Padraic Colum's book "Children of Odin" - a retelling of the Eddas and the Volsung Saga for young adults. It tells some of the common myths in short stories http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/ice/coo/index.htm

other texts: http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/ice/index.htm#
 
Old April 11th, 2014 #6
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Here are some English words we took from the norse/vikings
There's a tonne of them. I could only remember a few (husband, guest, troll, sky, kid), so here's a quite comprehensive list. Spewing out Wikipedia links - Akinesque, I know, but it is a useful resource on occasion:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Old_Norse_origin

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Old April 11th, 2014 #7
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In England many place names ending in –by such as Whitby are where Vikings first settled. The –by has been passed on in the English language as “by-law” meaning the local law of the town or village.


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Etymology

The Oxford English Dictionary indicates that the origin of the current modern use of the word is not clear. One possibility is the earliest use of the term, which originates from the Viking town law in the Danelaw, wherein by is the Old Norse word for a larger settlement as in Whitby and Derby (compare with the modern Danish-Norwegian word by meaning town, or the modern Swedish word by, meaning village).
Other places vikings left their influence:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking...western_Europe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerick

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Wexford

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leixlip#History

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varangians

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I know that about The Thing. P.J. O'Rourke mentioned that in one of his articles decades ago. He wrote a long one about Sweden I studied very closely for his techniques. His funniest one is really sly, a sort of pretending one figured something out and then "oh yeah, there it is." When in fact, I'd bet my eyetooth he worked backword from the new concept rather than coming to it purely through his own insight. Eh...a writer is a showman too, he must have his tricks.
 
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Article= Discovery suggests Viking slaves were buried with their masters
Link= http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-...-masters-00859
 
Old April 20th, 2014 #12
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In England many place names ending in –by such as Whitby are where Vikings first settled. The –by has been passed on in the English language as “by-law” meaning the local law of the town or village.
Yes. I think that is accurate. Also, the swedish word for village is indeed 'by'.
 
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Archaeologists Discover 1,000-Year-Old Viking ‘Parliament’ in Scotland



http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/9268...t-in-scotland/
 
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Hiddensee Brooch - 10th century Viking gold disc, discovered in Northeastern Germany. Easy to see why they call them barbarians, eh?
 
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...longships.html

Vikings conquered treacherous seas and created a formidable navy thanks to mass-production of TAR which was used to waterproof their ships

Pits in Sweden were found which produced up to 300 litres of tar per batch
This was ten times the volume of tar being created elsewhere in Europe
Vast amounts of the substance allowed for the Vikings to grow their Navy fleet
It was used to coat the timber of their longships and waterproof the vessels
 
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We should call them the heroes at Lindisfarne! For putting down a bunch of queer-bait christian monks.
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