Viking camp this year?

[hellshallbemine]

Hey man of course. The Vikings founded Dublin!

 

[Lvsitanno]

"Alright!"

 

[hellshallbemine]

Lets give 3 cheers to the Vikings, for without them there wouldnt be any decent city in Ireland, for Dublin is the only decent one!

 

[Kroppus]

Yepps Hellshallsbemine.
But doesn't Dublin (dublihn) mean Stinky Black Pool in gaelic? I think i've heard something like that as the meaning of it. Still i agree. Dublin is the best city in Eire. And it got a lot of nice people too. Hmm,,, You're still not afraid Norwegians will go viking again if you're not nice to us?

Oh BTW. Asterix & Obelix was gauls(from france.. enough said about that). I don't wont to get more people angry at me. *thinks it's enough with the swedes so far*

 

[Brat]

Not to mention the part vikings played in uniting the great land of Rus in 782, now Ukraine

 

[hellshallbemine]

And disnt the Danish Vikings found some of the great Russian cities in their travels?
I could be completely wrong there but I think I read that somewhere before.

 

[Brat]

It was actually Kyiv or Kiev (as the Russians call it) but it's actually part of Ukraine. But in 882 (sorry not 782 as previously mentioned) Kyiv was the capital of Rus which over time evolved into Russia.

 

[Kroppus]

It was mainly swedish and danish vikings that went east. Comes to them beeing closer to it. But also a lot of norwegians went that way when they was banished from Norway. Either that way or wet to England or North to Iceland, Greenland (Eirik Raude who found Greenland was the world's first reelestate salesman. Calling that lump of ice for Green?) and of course his son. Leiv who argued with his dad and sailed to New Foundland. So most of this worlds discoveries comes from arguments and family feuds.
We probably wouldn't have known about America if arguments hadn't taken place.

 

[Thordis V.]

Greenland was green in the 13th century as the climate was warmer (4 degrees more in average than today) - maybe we should change the names of Green- and Iceland as I saw recently a report about climate changes in Iceland.

 

[Kroppus]

Thordis: I didn't know that. It's good we got youto tell us how things really was.
Hmm. I didn't know you was that old? J\K

Have a nice day....or else.

 

[Thordis V.]

I read it in a book about Vikings and another time in a book about Norge.

 

[Lvsitanno]

Maybe Iceland and Greenland have their names "inverted" just to fool whoever was looking for the real green land hihi

 

[Thordis V.]

In the time where Greenland and Iceland where discovered, it was really reverse... today Greenland is cold and Iceland has problems with climate changing... unfortunaly. The catastrophy of Flateyri in '95 has shown some of the dangers of global warming

 

[Kroppus]

I say as the local politicans from norway's most rightwinged party.
"We are really worried about this "Greenhouse"effect. So we want to propose a law that forbids building greenhouses in Norway."

 

[Wolfpack]

I admire the Vikings for their attack on Colongne !
The only city I hate in Germany.
(I used to live there for about 2 years)
This city should have wiped it out completly!