If You Lived In Viking Times.

[xXAsherahXx]

Attention, today was the anniversary of one of the first ever Viking attacks on record. The attack was on Landisfarne in June 793. I would like to think it was today since 1) I couldn't find a date, and 2) I'm making this thread today...so yeah.

...If I was a Viking I would pillage everything and go on a killing spree with my battle axe. I love battle axes.

Also, if you find the correct day and year of this attack or can discredit this as the first ever attack, please post it so I can correct myself. But, still answer the question on what you would do if you lived during these times.

 

[Vampire cat]

I would be really pissed cause my viking husband kept cheating on me with cows >>.

 

[xXAsherahXx]

I would get myself killed and my wife and daughter would be raped and my house and village pillaged.

On accounts of me being English and what not

You realize you can be anywhere on earth, right? For example, in the Byzantine Empire.

 

[Quaxar]

Vikings? I live in a landlocked country, no chance to come here with their battleships. I'd laugh at them!

EDIT: I maybe should add "a landlocked country full of Alps and other mountains to escape to if they ever should get here"

 

[Jackalb]

I would get myself killed and my wife and daughter would be raped and my house and village pillaged.

On accounts of me being English and what not

Yes this but if I had been Viking

...If I was a Viking I would pillage everything and go on a killing spree with my battle axe. I love battle axes.

Except the axe bit I'd probably go Skarin's route and have a sword and an axe.

 

[Sovvolf]

Hahahaha my dear boy, I'm from Yorkshire... it still is Viking times.

 

[MEEBO17]

PILLAGING, PILLAGING, PILLAGING, AND SWIMMING IN MY PILE OF MONEY

 

[Aenir]

Vikings? I live in a landlocked country, no chance to come here with their battleships. I'd laugh at them!

...Battleships? Do you know what the Vikings were? They could travel up rivers in their ships. They went into Russia even.

 

[xXAsherahXx]

I would get myself killed and my wife and daughter would be raped and my house and village pillaged.

On accounts of me being English and what not

You realize you can be anywhere on earth, right? For example, in the Byzantine Empire.

I could but I like to keep things historically accurate.

Ok? That doesn't make much sense, but if it floats your boat...

 

[NeedAUserName]

I'm Scottish and no nothing of history... How did we get on? I like to think we could have gone drinking together, before invading THE GODDAMNED ENGLISH!.

 

[Generic_Dave]

I would have been killed long before reaching adulthood due to disease or violent death and would have been forgotten by my contemporaries before lunch.

 

[PoliceBox63]

(I'm Irish) "Oh cac." *axe cleaves head from body*

 

[traineesword]

Hahahaha my dear boy, I'm from Yorkshire... it still is Viking times.

wow, hahaha, thats a pretty accurate statement... least if you visit the city of York it seems to be. Museum employee's dressed up as Vikings
Yorkshire young-man here too

I don't know, i'd probably have been forced to be one of those kids who hid in the woods as they watched their village destroyed, hoping that the vikings didn't notice us. Then i could have an awesome story about training for revenge, becoming strong and powerful and then ending up getting killed by a large group of vikings because life isn't like a Movie... or a video game.
plus, i'd probably be a peasent, hand-mixing animal dung into fertilizer and spreading it on some Lord's field in order to earn my earthy turnip and slice of meat for the week. so actually, living in the viking times isn't my cup of tea really.

 

[Ironboot]

I live in viking territory and I still pillage villages every day!

 

[The Hairminator]

How come you people on the British isles seem way more obsessed with vikings than us Scandinavians? xD

 

[Idlemessiah]

Hahahaha my dear boy, I'm from Yorkshire... it still is Viking times.

Hi fives!
However Bradford actua;;y seems to be going backwards through time these last few years =/

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[Beltom]

"Eye Twitch" Viiikkiiings....
Sorry, I get like that when people use viking as a noun, won't happen again.
As for what I'd do, Bernard Cornwell can probably tell you better than me, the Saxon's Chronicles show everything about that time-period in Britain that you'd have to do if you didn't want to get murdered.