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hedgie:
My ancestors were likewise converted by the point of the blade. Fuck those fuckers. If I were to put a fish sticker on my proverbial car, it'd be Cthulhu, since like the other fish stickers, he's fictional.
GarandMarine:
Still remains that there was a LOT of religious violence back and forth their Grog, so characterizing that as a prayer against a religious group is not outlandish. England at the time being mostly Christian, the various pagan forms of faith were mostly stamped out, Scandinavia being the last serious bastion of Germanic Paganism left. (There really wasn't much of that in a "pure strain" in England to start with. The Celts had some very rich pagan traditions of their own that we've lost far too much of sadly)
The Vikings were scary because A. they were incredibly effective military forces and B. they were pagans back when Christians still burned people at the stake for that.
Orkboy:
--- Quote from: GarandMarine on 26 Sep 2014, 22:59 ---Still remains that there was a LOT of religious violence back and forth their Grog, so characterizing that as a prayer against a religious group is not outlandish. England at the time being mostly Christian, the various pagan forms of faith were mostly stamped out, Scandinavia being the last serious bastion of Germanic Paganism left. (There really wasn't much of that in a "pure strain" in England to start with. The Celts had some very rich pagan traditions of their own that we've lost far too much of sadly)
The Vikings were scary because A. they were incredibly effective military forces and B. they were pagans back when Christians still burned people at the stake for that.
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And C, they actually bathed, so they got all the English girls. There's actually letters from some minor English noble complaining to the church that Scandinavian merchants coming through his town were marrying all the English women and leaving behind a town full of English bachelors.
GarandMarine:
Be a badass and keep yourself well groomed. It has incredible results.
Barmymoo:
I have glasses now (for close focus - so basically whenever I'm using a computer, studying, reading a book, watching TV or pretty much almost all the time!) and the way I can tell that they are working is that when I take them off, the world is fuzzy and curves towards me in the middle of my field of vision. It is weird.
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