If You Lived In Viking Times.
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Vikings were in the Byzantine Empire, they had a trade agreement with them, but that would not stop them from being aggressive from time to time.xXAsherahXx said:
OT: I would fight so that I could go to Valhalla and help Odin prepare for Ragnarok.
They pretty much founded modern Russia, their first dynasty follows the bloodline of the Viking Rurik.Aenir said:
Knowing my luck I'd be a peasant drafted into a shild wall to try to fight them off. Either in Northern France or Northern england depending on my luck.
On the plus side I could follow my scottish blood and do some raiding of my own.
well seeing im an Irishman i would be kinda screwed. The Vikings were a unstoppable fighting force. I'd fight them tooth and nail but inevitably i would probably get a Battle Ax to the face.
Yeah, the Danelaw didn't last that long, but it did occupy pretty much all of England except for Wessex. I'm fairly sure I can trace some ancestry back to settled raiders, msotly due to my Great-Grandmothers maiden name, which is not even remotely anglo-saxon.Nickolai77 said:
I would get myself a Night Fury, and all the viking babes I could handle.
But if we're talking boring, less mythical vikings (Which are still pretty kickass, even without the dragons), then I guess I'd do the only thing vikings can do...
EDIT: Oh, well.. Considering that my mother is Native American, I guess I'd simply sit around in an indian tribe somewhere. Hunt a few deer or something..
*Sigh*
But if we're talking boring, less mythical vikings (Which are still pretty kickass, even without the dragons), then I guess I'd do the only thing vikings can do...
EDIT: Oh, well.. Considering that my mother is Native American, I guess I'd simply sit around in an indian tribe somewhere. Hunt a few deer or something..
*Sigh*
Just a note for the Englishmen that have said they'd be getting attacked, you may and probably do still have viking ancestors. When William the Bastard(i.e. Duke of Normandy and King of England) took over, he and his people were only a few generations removed from the vikings that would sail up rivers and attack villages and monasteries.
Also, I would assume the raids would not be in the spring/summer. The vikings did a lot of farming and while I'm not sure, this may have been an important time for harvesting. Dunno, I forget much of what I learned when I was getting my degree. I may be wrong about 1200 year old farming methods.
Also, I would assume the raids would not be in the spring/summer. The vikings did a lot of farming and while I'm not sure, this may have been an important time for harvesting. Dunno, I forget much of what I learned when I was getting my degree. I may be wrong about 1200 year old farming methods.
*sigh* In the metal scene here in Norway, you can't throw a rock without hitting some overweight nerd with greasy hair and glasses who is ever so proud of his undiluted viking blood without ever having been on as much as a proper hunting and/or fishing trip. Truth is, most Scandinavians alive today are far too weak to have made much of a viking. It's quite sad.
That said, if I was alive in 793, I'd make myself a viking helmet WITH HORNS and totally validate that stupid bloody stereotype.
That said, if I was alive in 793, I'd make myself a viking helmet WITH HORNS and totally validate that stupid bloody stereotype.
Rape the Churches of my enemies and burn their women. I would destroy everything within a five mile radius of the first tree to look at me funny. I would proceed to rebuild that area to my specifications, and call it SpecialLand, where everyone is required to wear funny hats.
being part german during those times i would have been part of the Germanic barbarians which are way more badass then vikings or at least equal to
