Vikings

The Purple People Eaters was a nickname given to the defensive line of the Minnesota Vikings that played from in the late 1960s to the late 1970s. The players were:

DEs - Jim Marshall, Carl Eller

DTs - Alan Page, Gary Larson, Doug Sutherland

They spoke Old Norse which was an ancient Germanic language from the North Germanic branch. It was closely related to Old English and was the language whence the modern Scandinavian languages (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic and Faroese) sprang. Like most ancient Indo-European languages it was heavily inflected retaining much of the ancient fusional morphology. Nouns had three genders (masculine, feminine, neuter), two numbers (singular, plural) and declined into four cases (nominative, accusative, dative, genitive). Verbs conjugated for person (first, second, third), number (singular, dual, and plural), tense (present and preterite) and mood (indicative and subjunctive). Most of this inflection has been lost in the Modern Scandinavian languages which have moved towards more analytical structures. Below see and extract in Old Norse from the 13th century Egils Saga: Þorgeirr blundr, systursonr Egils, var þar á þinginu ok hafði gengit hart at liðveizlu við Þorstein. Hann bað Egil ok þá Þorstein koma sér til staðfestu út þangat á Mýrar; hann bjó áðr fyrir sunnan Hvítá, fyrir neðan Blundsvatn. Egill tók vel á því ok fýsti Þorstein, at þeir léti hann þangat fara. Egill setti Þorgeir blund niðr at Ánabrekku, en Steinarr fœrði bústað sinn út yfir Langá ok settisk niðr at Leirulæk. En Egill reið heim suðr á Nes eptir þingit með flokk sinn, ok skildusk þeir feðgar með kærleik.

Q. What's the difference between the Vikings and a dollar bill? A.You can still get four quarters out of a dollar!

June 8, 793 AD. Danish raiders sacked the monastery Lindisfarne.

The vikings told the europeans that they were going to Iceland. And by 'Iceland' they ment the small island by Greenland. At the time Greenland didn't have its name, so the europeans went to Greenland because the vikings described it as 'Iceland' and since Greenland is a very icy island. When they arrived, there were no vikings found. It was the other way around_the vikings went to Iceland, they must have named the smaller island Iceland to trick the europeans to go to Greenland.

AP! Of COURSE!!! Favre, definitely second.

Vikings made raids that were usually hit and run, and they targeted monasteries or churches that had valuable gold and silver objects.

In a sense. Many actually believed in Hel (yes, without the second "l"). It was said to lie due north and exist underground but was cold and damp. Although not as pleasant as the idea of heaven, it wasn't torturous either. More like a perpetual state of sleep. There was, however, another level below Hel for the wicked where a serpent called "Nidhoggr" gnawed on their flesh.

Home and Hearth on South Airport, near Garfield corner.

because they wanted to

Initially, European settlements and towns often succumbed to surprise attacks by invading Norsemen as they were not allowed time to prepare a proper military response to the raids.

As Christianity took root in Scandinavia and foreign settlers began to have influence over the region, the cultural, material and political aspirations of the Vikings evolved and the violent raids would eventually become a thing of the past.

Some Angelo-Saxons were considered there enimes.

The hammer of Thor was a common charm, worn on a necklace.

vikings

A Norse saga is a true story, written about 1000 years ago in gammel-norsk or icelandic. Many of these are about viking, and are referred to as viking sagas.

It is important to note that viking is a verb : it referred to what the people did, rather than who they were. Viking was a form of piracy, where people went to see in good, seaworthy boats, capable of long voyages. The essential difference between viking and piracy was that the attacks were not on other ships but on villages or towns on, or close to, the seashore.

All the Norse sagas are worth reading, whether the viking content is dominant or minimal.

Probably not the way we think of it today. He was, however, educated by the standards of his time, learning those things which were considered essential: navigation, trading practices, combat, animal husbandry, ship- and shelter-building, and probably some foreign languages.

It probably sinked because of bad weather or struck a sandbar.

The vikings, that is the people who went aviking, were rich to begin with. They needed to afford a boat, the trade goods to start them off, the weapons and gear. The people who led viking voyages were usually the 2nd or 3rd sons of kings or other noble born men who had money to spare. The main purpose of the voyage was not gold or wealth, but to make a name for oneself by bringing home the gold and wealth.

The Norsemen did not live in squalor by any sense of the word. They were very clean, virtually no one was impoverished. If a person did loose all his wealth, he could easily sell himself as a thrall to a karl. The thralls (slaves) were very well treated, owned their own possession, etc. They were even paid.

Yes Vikings used wooden shields. its sort of an agility and weight issue, would you rather run around a village with a big bronze or iron shield? The shield was also pretty disposable, it is sort of used as a weapon on its own, to mostly deflect to make an opening, not outright block, and light materials were needed to properly use it for that purpose. The only metal found on these wooden shields is around the edge to reinforce it, this could withstand a hit, or if that didn't happen it would definitely lessen the impact on the wood.

The materials were too expensive for Metal shields as well.

Most people close by had wooden kite and round shields around that time, in England most if not all used a wooden shield.

But it has been proven that Vikings didn't need strong armour at all, they raided almost all of England, and even colonised most of it, without much overpowering resistance.

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they killed many many many people and were homicidle maniacs

The answers goes like this:Scandinavian Europe, southern Europe, England, Ireland, scottland, iceland, Greenland and north America. Hope this helps you a lot Jesus loves you :D

They helped develop nations and forced the Europeans to unite and defend themselves.

Novgorod and Kiev.