That appears to be a Mästermyr style chest, take a look here for a
better (darker :-) drawing.
http://www.angelfire.com/wy/svenskildbiter/Viking/vikchest.html
-Keith
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 10:13:24 -0500, [email protected] (J T)
wrote:
>http://www.earlyperiod.com/articles/viking_chest/
>
> Damn, they could have at least used some darker lines.
>
>
>
>JOAT
>The first method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at
>the men he has around him.
>- Niccolo Machiavelli
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 10:13:24 -0500, [email protected] (J T)
wrote:
>http://www.earlyperiod.com/articles/viking_chest/
>
> Damn, they could have at least used some darker lines.
You just need stronger glasses. :)
Sun, Jan 30, 2005, 12:40pm [email protected] (jaime) claims:
You just need stronger glasses. :)
Moot point, I'm not making any anyway. When I go pillaging, my
Viking long boat is gonna have a steam engine, not oars.
JOAT
The first method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at
the men he has around him.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 05:10:38 GMT, [email protected] wrote:
>Viking ships were rowed by warriors, not slaves.
Opps. My mistake. I'd better brush up on my history now.
[email protected] wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> Viking ships were rowed by warriors, not slaves.
>
> For a look at what it was like to be a Viking oarsman using one of
> those chests, see:
> http://www.ece.uwaterloo.ca/~arnora/arnora/boreal-lay.htm
>
I haven't laughed quite that hard in a long time! I had happened to be
reading about the Viking museum at Roskilde, Denmark this afternoon...
Patriarch,
whose grandfather came from that island...
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:24:37 -0500, [email protected] (J T)
wrote:
>Sun, Jan 30, 2005, 12:40pm [email protected] (jaime) claims:
>You just need stronger glasses. :)
>
> Moot point, I'm not making any anyway. When I go pillaging, my
>Viking long boat is gonna have a steam engine, not oars.
That should cut down dramatically on the use of slaves. :)
Sun, Jan 30, 2005, 4:30pm [email protected] (jaime) cut history
classes and said:
That should cut down dramatically on the use of slaves. :)
Ah, but the Vikings didn't use slaves as rowers.
JOAT
The first method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at
the men he has around him.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 18:13:08 -0500, [email protected] (J T)
wrote:
> Ah, but the Vikings didn't use slaves as rowers.
Yes I saw that earlier post. Back to the history books for me. :)
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:30:12 -0500, jaime <[email protected]>
wrote:
>On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:24:37 -0500, [email protected] (J T)
>wrote:
>
>>Sun, Jan 30, 2005, 12:40pm [email protected] (jaime) claims:
>>You just need stronger glasses. :)
>>
>> Moot point, I'm not making any anyway. When I go pillaging, my
>>Viking long boat is gonna have a steam engine, not oars.
>
>That should cut down dramatically on the use of slaves. :)
Viking ships were rowed by warriors, not slaves.
For a look at what it was like to be a Viking oarsman using one of
those chests, see:
http://www.ece.uwaterloo.ca/~arnora/arnora/boreal-lay.htm
--RC
"Sometimes history doesn't repeat itself. It just yells
'can't you remember anything I've told you?' and lets
fly with a club.
-- John W. Cambell Jr.
Mon, Jan 31, 2005, 5:10am (EST+5) [email protected] says:
<snip> For a look at what it was like to be a Viking oarsman using one
of those chests, see:
And this is what they sang while theiy're rowing.
http://ic.net/%7Eblues/viknsong.htm
JOAT
The first method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at
the men he has around him.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 09:42:40 -0500, [email protected] (J T)
wrote:
> And this is what they sang while theiy're rowing.
>http://ic.net/%7Eblues/viknsong.htm
I wonder if they sing that during Minnesota Viking games. LOL.
If not..they should. It's pretty funny.