Longship left Tuesday for America.
“The America Expedition is mind-bogglingly ambitious. Captain Björn Ahlander and a crew of 32 damn hardy men and women selected from 4,000 applicants have embarked on a voyage of 6,000 miles that will taken (sic) them to Iceland, Greenland, through the iceberg fields of the North Atlantic to Newfoundland, then to Quebec City, Toronto and into the US via the Great Lakes. The first US port of call will be Fairport, Ohio, and then on to Tall Ship festivals in Bay City, Michigan, Chicago, Illinois, Green Bay, Wisconsin and Duluth, Minnesota. Then it will head back east again through the Great Lakes, the canals of New York State to the Hudson River. Yes, a Viking longship will be going through canal locks. The sail is coming down for that part, obviously. After a stop in New York City in September, the Draken Harald Hårfagre will winter at the wonderful Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, Connecticut.”
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/41830
No word on whether Ragnar Lothbrok is part of the crew.
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Showing posts with label vikings. Show all posts
Thursday, April 28, 2016
Sunday, March 20, 2016
‘Buckle from British Isles found in Viking grave’
Danish Viking woman used bronze disc to hold her petticoats together.
Archaeologists “were certain that it didn’t start out as a buckle or brooch. It was a fitting from a shrine of some kind, stripped off a wooden box used to hold sacred objects. It’s therefore not a trade piece. Monasteries and churches weren’t in the practice of prying the decoration off their reliquaries and selling them to Vikings. This was acquired in a raid.”
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/41219
Archaeologists “were certain that it didn’t start out as a buckle or brooch. It was a fitting from a shrine of some kind, stripped off a wooden box used to hold sacred objects. It’s therefore not a trade piece. Monasteries and churches weren’t in the practice of prying the decoration off their reliquaries and selling them to Vikings. This was acquired in a raid.”
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/41219
Thursday, June 4, 2015
Denmark ‘least corrupt’ country
“Denmark ranked first in constraints on government powers and absence of corruption, while it came in sixth in the world in terms of regulatory enforcement.”
“The scores were determined from assessments of 1,000 respondents in each country and local legal experts. Key indicators included: constraints on government powers; absence of corruption; open government; fundamental rights; order and security; regulatory enforcement; civil justice; criminal justice and informal justice.”
http://www.thelocal.dk/20150603/denmark-least-corrupt-country-in-the-world-again
(For whatever it’s worth, Denmark produced more Vikings than did its northern -- and somewhat more mountainous neighbors -- Norway and Sweden. Maybe there is a relation between raiding and lack of corruption, maybe not.)
Link at http://gatesofvienna.net/2015/06/gates-of-vienna-news-feed-632015/#more-36494
“The scores were determined from assessments of 1,000 respondents in each country and local legal experts. Key indicators included: constraints on government powers; absence of corruption; open government; fundamental rights; order and security; regulatory enforcement; civil justice; criminal justice and informal justice.”
http://www.thelocal.dk/20150603/denmark-least-corrupt-country-in-the-world-again
(For whatever it’s worth, Denmark produced more Vikings than did its northern -- and somewhat more mountainous neighbors -- Norway and Sweden. Maybe there is a relation between raiding and lack of corruption, maybe not.)
Link at http://gatesofvienna.net/2015/06/gates-of-vienna-news-feed-632015/#more-36494
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