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Subject: Anyone here following Bernard Cornwell's Uthred Ragnarson series?
olive greens    1/30/2006 1:40:21 PM
Just a fun topic, I guess. Got through The Last Kingdom, and it was pretty good. Havent been able to get my hands on "The Pale Horseman" yet, but will keep trying ;-) If so, whats the Danish take on it?
 
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olive greens    RE:Viking weapons and tactics   2/3/2006 2:43:09 PM
Iano: "First three" as in the first three published, or first three in Sharpe's "life" - Sharpe's Tiger, Sharpe's Triumph, Sharpe's Fortress (all three based in India)??? BTW, "Viking" means to go raiding, so if you decide to err loot the ship's pantry you are - in an archaic sense - "Viking". Also of interest is - if you bar Russians as possible heirs of the Vikings - the furthest east Vikings went was Baghdad.
 
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Iano_returns    RE:Viking weapons and tactics   2/3/2006 4:22:49 PM
I think they were a random 3. I read 5 or 6 in all. Good stories, don't get me wrong. But repetitive to read more than that I found. Well I'll be damned, I had no idea the Danes got to Baghdad! This was later than the Viking phase though right, do you mean the Crusades phase? As your Dannebrog is a Crusaders banner is it not? Iano
 
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TheArmchairCmd    RE:Viking weapons and tactics   2/3/2006 5:06:17 PM
Well I'll be damned, I had no idea the Danes got to Baghdad! This was later than the Viking phase though right, do you mean the Crusades phase? As your Dannebrog is a Crusaders banner is it not? Iano< The vikings generally "split the world between them" like this ;) Danes - England, Northern France. Norwegians - Scotland, Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, America. Swedes - Baltics, Russia. But this is very general. The Varangian Guard (Emperor of Konstantinople' personal guards, ~1000 strong) for instance was comprised of a mix of Scandinavs. The Danes did their crusades against the heaten Balts, as they were conveniently close, so we did not have to go all the way to Jerusalem. According to legend the flag dropped from the skies during the (crusader) Battle of Lyndanisse, Estonia, 1219. So per tradition it'll soon be 800 years old...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9e/Danmarks_flag_1219_Lorentzen.jpg>
 
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olive greens    RE:Viking weapons and tactics   2/6/2006 1:44:23 PM
>> Well I'll be damned, I had no idea the Danes got to Baghdad! This was later than the Viking phase though right, do you mean the Crusades phase? << Maybe to the envy of Thomas, it was the Swedes who wound up trading in Baghdad. It was before they became Christians, I believe. Though mainly as traders (in which case they went even further East), Baghdad (or parts of it) apparently was a target of opportunity for a quick raid. So I mentioned it as the Eastern-most "Viking" venture. http://www.luth.se/luth/present/sweden/history/viking_age/Viking_age4.html
 
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Thomas3    Olive Green   2/6/2006 9:22:24 PM
I'm not envious, but just look at the place now the Swedes have left it!!
 
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