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Post by deuce on Jan 3, 2017 21:44:58 GMT -5
Researchers are seeking to determine whether Rollo of Normandy was Norse or Danish using DNA: norwaytoday.info/culture/dna-hunters-unopened-viking-grave-in-normandie/In many ways, Rollo could be considered the most influential Viking patriarch ever. His Norman descendants conquered England and Wales. They also subjugated Scotland and Ireland, at least for a time, not to mention wide dominions in what is now France. In addition, Normans descended from his followers conquered southern Italy and Sicily, along with spearheading several Crusades. REH hinted that his outlaw Crusader hero, Cormac Fitzgeoffrey, had the blood of William of Normandy in his veins.
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Post by deuce on Jan 11, 2017 12:05:07 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Jan 15, 2017 19:52:54 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Jan 17, 2017 21:40:25 GMT -5
Angus McBride -- "The Parting".
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Post by deuce on Jan 23, 2017 13:48:52 GMT -5
Looks like Jared Diamond and others were wrong about the Norse in Greenland (as I suspected). New studies now seem to show that climate change (ie, the Little Ice Age) and a failing market for Atlantic walrus ivory were the main causes for abandonment. Only now are some Viking dairy farms being revealed, having been hidden under ice. When the Vikings settled Greenland, it was warmer than it is now. www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/11/why-did-greenland-s-vikings-disappear
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Post by deuce on Mar 8, 2017 13:19:18 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Mar 15, 2017 22:00:27 GMT -5
Leif Ericsson by McBride...
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Post by ChrisLAdams on Mar 17, 2017 10:31:55 GMT -5
Watched this documentary on Netflix this week and found it interesting. It seems to be available on YouTube in its entirety as well. I have to say it holds the record for first documentary where they examine a Viking turd. Yikes.
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Post by deuce on Mar 30, 2017 13:20:54 GMT -5
It would appear that this painting is concept art for a PC game and is called "For Honor". All I know.
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Post by deuce on Apr 9, 2017 8:31:59 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Apr 10, 2017 21:41:58 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2017 2:56:16 GMT -5
Looks very interesting. I sense The Shadow of the Hun in this one.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2017 2:22:38 GMT -5
Hello Deuce. I knew Attila and the Huns would be in the mix. Interesting... To conclude, Snorri’s migration story of Odin and the Asir displays so many and such striking similarities between the historical and archaeological facts of Attila and the Huns in the fifth century and their conquest of Scandinavia that they refer to one and the same sequence of historical events. The transformation of the story from a political historical to a mythological cosmological narrative is a prime example of the sacralisation of a new powerful ruling dynasty from outside. It accords well with a more universal phenomenon in which new ruling ancestors are elevated into demi-gods, and later founder-gods. The historical conquest is consequently transferred into a cosmological conquest where the new gods take precedence over the old. In this the political and religious–cosmological order is brought into balance. It further demonstrates the historical dynamics of religion, which derives from its ideological role of legitimising the social and political order. Attila and the Huns in fourth and fifth century AD Barbarian Europe amalgamated with Wodan/Wotan/Woden/Woutan, the old pan-Germanic god whose name meant ‘possessed, frantic’ (Glosecki 1989: 72) and thus became the paramount god of the Old Norse pantheon in the shape of Odin and his Asir, a historical sequence that might be illustrated iconographically.
Lotte Hedeager, Chapter, Iron Age Myth and Materiality, page 222Link: books.google.co.uk/books?id=3XCrAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA189&lpg=PA189&dq=Iron+Age+Myth+and+Materiality+attila+huns&source=bl&ots=_t7J9nyhX7&sig=BxBI6YpfP1EwxsnUwKzzu1tjsHU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwivq5iHyKPTAhUrAsAKHcNqBOcQ6AEIGzAC#v=onepage&q=Iron%20Age%20Myth%20and%20Materiality%20attila%20huns&f=false
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Post by deuce on Apr 26, 2017 22:39:02 GMT -5
Four experts talk about Old Norse literature and mythology. Discussions of the actual language and tales in Old Norse, as well as which translations are better and the use of Norse mythology in modern fiction.
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Post by deuce on Apr 28, 2017 20:51:05 GMT -5
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