Vikings!

footfootfoot · 03-11-2013, 02:02 PM

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Originally Posted by wolf

I'm really enjoying it, although I don't entirely get the whole docudrama notion the History channel is trying here. Shouldn't they at least have a companion series with some funny looking archaeologists talking about middens and misinterpreting religious practices or something?

I found it really hard to believe that the vikings hadn't even SEEN England by that time. If they just hugged the coast along France, they must have noticed something to their right.

xoxoxoBruce · 03-11-2013, 03:23 PM

Most of the Viking longboats that have been recovered, have been proven to be built from Irish trees. But that's the longboats, they built several types of boats for rivers and shit, so they may have covered most of Europe and Eastern Russia before venturing across the water. Then too, England was pretty primitive, so maybe better plunder could be had on the continent.

03-11-2013, 03:23 PM	#2
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Most of the Viking longboats that have been recovered, have been proven to be built from Irish trees. But that's the longboats, they built several types of boats for rivers and shit, so they may have covered most of Europe and Eastern Russia before venturing across the water. Then too, England was pretty primitive, so maybe better plunder could be had on the continent. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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