In a message dated
5/4/02 4:42:37 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think you will find that you ties to Norway is the best. It
was the Vikings from Norway, refusing to be christians (they preferred Odin,
Thor and the other northern gods to the sensible Jesus), that populated
Iceland and soon thereafter took futher to the west and settled on
Greenland.
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Don't forget
they went the other direction too ... As far as Russia, if I remember
correctly. Bringing civilization to an uncivilized
world.
Lawana
No Lawana. It was not vikings from Norway. It was mainly the
Vikings from eastern Sweden that crossed the Baltic in order to, in the end
reach Miklagård (Istanbul).
Vikings from South Sweden and Denmark took to southeast to
England, Ireland, France and around Gibraltar into the Mediterrainan that
way.
All this could be done as the Vikings, when most people in
the antic world had skips like bathtubs, already had fast, oceangoing ships.
Copys of vikingships has some years ago been travelling the Atlantic to New
York in memory of their travels 1000 years ago.
Claes Persson
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