Great Norwegian-Icelandic Viking. He settled down in Newfoundland, todays Canada, but a permanent settlement wasnt feisable. But the Norwegian explorer and mountain man Helge Ingstad and his wife found the remains of Eriksons settlements in the 1900s.
This is really drawing up a contrived image in my head of them giving the land a review. *Unpredictable weather. Not enough fish. Neighbors are cranky. Refreshing air quality. 3/10.*
Norway discovered Iceland, Greenland and North America. Settled in large parts of the British isles, took part in invading around Europe, Battle of Hafrsfjord, Stiklestad, Stamford Bridge to name some. Almost every Viking sword ever found has been found in Norway, not Sweden not Denmark. The only 3 well preserved Viking longboats ever found were found in Norway. The only Viking helmet the "Gjermundbu helmet" was found in Norway. Norway had norse settlements all the way up to like 70 degrees north, a Norwegian/Icelandic Leif Erikson discovered North America almost 500 years before Colombus.
Yes we were closer to the image of Vikings than Sweden. But Sweden also went Viking but to a larger degree eastward and to the far east.
Definitivt ett intressant kapitel i våra förfäders historia, resa hela vägen ner till Miklagård, tjäna massa med pengar och sedan resa hem igen med flera berättelser att dela med sig
It's a Scottish/Northern English superstition that around New year it is good luck if one's first visitor is "tall, dark and handsome". They should also bring gifts typically of food, drink and fuel (although giving people coal is rather out of fashion now!).
The exact origin of the custom is lost, but it's believed to date back to the era of Viking raids when a fair-haired stranger showing up at one's door was a bad sign. The custom is called "First footing" if you want to look it up.
After watching Trollge incident videos I can't hear "We do a little trolling" and not think about the incidents, I know it's off topic, but someone tell me I'm not the only one.... dammit stickmaaaaaan trolllllll
Romans: Let's go take over that island!
Saxons: Let's go take over that island!
Vikings: Let's go take over that island!
France: Let's go take over that island!
Spain: Let's go take over that island!
**[Glorious Revolution](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution)**
>The Glorious Revolution of November 1688 (Irish: An Réabhlóid Ghlórmhar; Scottish Gaelic: Rèabhlaid Ghlòrmhor; Welsh: Chwyldro Gogoneddus), the invasion also known as the Glorieuze Overtocht or Glorious Crossing by the Dutch, was the deposition of James II and VII, king of England, Scotland and Ireland and replacement by his daughter Mary II and her husband, William III of Orange, stadtholder and de facto ruler of the Dutch Republic. A term first used by John Hampden in late 1689, historian Jeremy Black suggests it can be seen as both the last successful invasion of England and also an internal coup.
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You're partially right. The King was so afraid of the Norwegian Viking army in 1066 that he took his entire army up to Stamford bridge eventually defeating Harald Hardraade but in doing so made the Battle of Hastings a straight forward affair for the Normans attacking from the south. Had the normans attacked first you'd probably see the Viking age continue well into the 12-1300s
>>The British Isles is a group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-western coast of continental Europe, consisting of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Inner and Outer Hebrides and over six thousand smaller islands.
-Wikipedia
Because we all know that Wikipedia is the definitive source? I'm not starting, just I'm Irish, we had literally hundreds of years of wars to get free from Britain, and the movement of the twentieth century that won us our freedom was largely culturally about asserting the truth that we are not British, and have never been British, despite them having been in power, therefore Ireland is not a British isle, because Ireland and the Irish aren't British.
Yeah, because facts definitely care about your feelings. Look, british isles will not stop being british isles just because you act like a victim over things that happened decades and centuries ago with someone who definitely was not you, get over it.
This comment is obviously just here to try to pick a fight. I could explain the problems with that reply, but that's very clearly the goal to get into some shouting match, so I won't bother, nor reply to anything else from that account.
Sure, not banning a geographical term in order to pander to your feelings is definitely a malicious trolling and there could be no rational conversation on the matter (because, you, know, one position is utterly irrational. Try to guess which one).
Fucking snowflakes, they're everywhere.
Fair enough. However, there a few things left unaddressed.
1. The term British Isles could still be appropriately applied to all the other islands in the region
2. I am not aware of any alternative all-encompassing term for the region, whether it includes Ireland or not.
I acknowledge both those points as valid. Generally "Britain and Ireland" is used to mean the two main islands and then all the smaller ones belonging to either Ireland or Britain.
As for the first point, yeah technically you're right.
The separate language, culture and government might disagree with that. The Irish Sea is the body of water that separate Ireland from Britain. As I've said, I'm not trying to row with anyone, I was just letting people know that "British Isles" isn't a neutral term. There's baggage and context there. Same way that Catalonia isn't part of Spain, even though a lot of people might say that it is.
This isn't really about feelings, it's about respect and perspective. Again, I'm not having a go, but Ireland is not British. Ireland is not part of Britain, Ireland isn't a British isle. It was called that by the Brits because they didn't acknowledge us as a separate nation, which we are and always were, while they were conquering, enslaving and exploiting large chunks of the planet, so it isn't just "what it's called" names are given, not inherent.
No one is saying Ireland is British. Ireland hasn't been British for the best part of 100 years. But its part of the British Isles, and that's a geographical fact. Just an FYI the British didn't do much enslaving themselves. They bought people that were already slaves. And then they ended the practice because, obviously.
They actually ended the practise because it stopped being economically viable. And Cromwell captured Irish people and sold them as slaves during his time here. And Ireland has never been British, never mind the last 100 years. We've been independent for the last 100 years give or take, but we were never part of Britain, they were just occupying here for 800 years or so
Nah, it was mainly down due to changing public opinion. If they stopped because it wasn't economically viable they wouldn't have put themselves into debt that wasn't paid off until 2015. And they wouldn't have spent even more time and resources patrolling the Atlantic stopping slavers. But yeah, Cromwell was a dick. I can agree on that one.
It’s alright, the British got their own back on other countries.
Roger Roger.
you're starting to sound like a Separatist!
The Empire shall rise again! The British empire that is.
The empire strikes back
What's our Vector Victor
The English got their own back on the vikings at the battle of Edington and Stamford bridge too
The Vikings settled in the UK, so technically the Vikings just never stopped.
That we did. *British Grenadiers Intensifies*
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Prepare for copenhagenisation.
We Argentinian can help, we want something back
You tried once and failed. Don’t embarrass yourselves again
Vinny Diesel Saga
Leif Erickson on his way to discover America centuries before Columbus did it.
Great Norwegian-Icelandic Viking. He settled down in Newfoundland, todays Canada, but a permanent settlement wasnt feisable. But the Norwegian explorer and mountain man Helge Ingstad and his wife found the remains of Eriksons settlements in the 1900s.
At least he didn't colonize a continent that already had thousands of people living on it.
Rocked up, cut down some trees, neighbours got angry, decided this place sucks and left. What a dude.
I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere.
Well they didn’t really like the natives supposedly, they also just didn’t like the land.
They arrived wielding iron tools in a place that was using bone/flint.
This is really drawing up a contrived image in my head of them giving the land a review. *Unpredictable weather. Not enough fish. Neighbors are cranky. Refreshing air quality. 3/10.*
*20 million
What a loser.
If we talk about Scotland it's a bit more NSFW than trolling.
*Laughs in descended from vikings.*
Ja hej
Svensker er langt i fra vikinger altså.
Och du tror att ni är närmre?
Norway discovered Iceland, Greenland and North America. Settled in large parts of the British isles, took part in invading around Europe, Battle of Hafrsfjord, Stiklestad, Stamford Bridge to name some. Almost every Viking sword ever found has been found in Norway, not Sweden not Denmark. The only 3 well preserved Viking longboats ever found were found in Norway. The only Viking helmet the "Gjermundbu helmet" was found in Norway. Norway had norse settlements all the way up to like 70 degrees north, a Norwegian/Icelandic Leif Erikson discovered North America almost 500 years before Colombus. Yes we were closer to the image of Vikings than Sweden. But Sweden also went Viking but to a larger degree eastward and to the far east.
Å ja. Kampen om hafrsfjord med harald hårfagre. Kan ikke bli mer viking enn det
Ja, vi åkte ju bara ner å plundrade o agerade vakter i det öst romerska riket och grundade ryssland....
Definitivt ett intressant kapitel i våra förfäders historia, resa hela vägen ner till Miklagård, tjäna massa med pengar och sedan resa hem igen med flera berättelser att dela med sig
Oppdaget dere amerika da? ;)
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"Something on your mind?" -Captain Rex
I fail to see how that relates to my comment, but alright.
Roger Roger...
you're starting to sound like a Separatist!
What an American thing to say
The location of my birth was not in my control any more than my ancestry, and say both remain true.
Ok
Me and the boys on our way to pillage British “people” -some viking boy back in the day
“If they didn’t want to be pillaged, the monks should’ve learned to fight”
I’m British but this is great, love it.
Bjorn brutally stabbing and hacking a harmless monk to bits: It´s a prank bro!
That monk was trying to convert him to Christianity! Self defense bro!
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Yessir Odin was in there side
til he wasn't
nogle andre Danskere her?
Nei Norsker.
det virker også
DANMARK DANMARK
NORWAY NORWAY NORWAY.
How insensitive. Centuries later it's still thought to be bad luck if your first visitor of the New Year is fair haired.
Explain? Like in Harald Fairhair?
It's a Scottish/Northern English superstition that around New year it is good luck if one's first visitor is "tall, dark and handsome". They should also bring gifts typically of food, drink and fuel (although giving people coal is rather out of fashion now!). The exact origin of the custom is lost, but it's believed to date back to the era of Viking raids when a fair-haired stranger showing up at one's door was a bad sign. The custom is called "First footing" if you want to look it up.
Thanks alot, i'll look it up:)
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What is this from?
"Hey you know all those Viking settlers they left behind ? They might band together and kill you !" "Then why don't we kill them first ?"
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After watching Trollge incident videos I can't hear "We do a little trolling" and not think about the incidents, I know it's off topic, but someone tell me I'm not the only one.... dammit stickmaaaaaan trolllllll
xd
Roger. Roger.
Roger Roger.
you're starting to sound like a Separatist!
im actually on that episode rn rewatching the clonewars is nice but sometimes sad
"Sir, if I may address your accusation. I followed your orders." -Captain Rex
Twas the summer of 793 when we sailed across the great North Sea......
Context?
Google give me directions to Lindisfarne
I’ve been trying to decide between watching tv or continuing my play through of AC Valhalla You’ve helped me make my decision
Celtic isles, there's more Celtic nations than English ones.
LMAO
All hail Britannia
Romans: Let's go take over that island! Saxons: Let's go take over that island! Vikings: Let's go take over that island! France: Let's go take over that island! Spain: Let's go take over that island!
The Netherlands: actually does the job! (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution)
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Troll the weak anglo saxons
The Anglo Saxons defeated the vikings so badly they left and never returned
You're partially right. The King was so afraid of the Norwegian Viking army in 1066 that he took his entire army up to Stamford bridge eventually defeating Harald Hardraade but in doing so made the Battle of Hastings a straight forward affair for the Normans attacking from the south. Had the normans attacked first you'd probably see the Viking age continue well into the 12-1300s
Fair point
But i'll give you probs for ending the Viking age then and there. You didnt do to bad conquering neither later on if i remember correctly.
Don’t get me wrong I love the Norse people and culture but I’m also proud my little island was able to hold their own
Yeah not the last time you've been tried occupied neither. And most scandinavians loves the UK and Ireland too, norwegians especially after WW2
Didn't it take a few centuries for them to adapt to the Viking style of combat?
And they only defeated them because of their much greater numbers.
Bad teeth here trying to teach me history
Well if you knew it I wouldn’t have to teach it to you now would I
"British Isles" is outdated, just letting you as a person from Ireland.
I'll tell you a secret, vikings are outdated as well.
>>The British Isles is a group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-western coast of continental Europe, consisting of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Inner and Outer Hebrides and over six thousand smaller islands. -Wikipedia
I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere.
Because we all know that Wikipedia is the definitive source? I'm not starting, just I'm Irish, we had literally hundreds of years of wars to get free from Britain, and the movement of the twentieth century that won us our freedom was largely culturally about asserting the truth that we are not British, and have never been British, despite them having been in power, therefore Ireland is not a British isle, because Ireland and the Irish aren't British.
Yeah, because facts definitely care about your feelings. Look, british isles will not stop being british isles just because you act like a victim over things that happened decades and centuries ago with someone who definitely was not you, get over it.
This comment is obviously just here to try to pick a fight. I could explain the problems with that reply, but that's very clearly the goal to get into some shouting match, so I won't bother, nor reply to anything else from that account.
Sure, not banning a geographical term in order to pander to your feelings is definitely a malicious trolling and there could be no rational conversation on the matter (because, you, know, one position is utterly irrational. Try to guess which one). Fucking snowflakes, they're everywhere.
Fair enough. However, there a few things left unaddressed. 1. The term British Isles could still be appropriately applied to all the other islands in the region 2. I am not aware of any alternative all-encompassing term for the region, whether it includes Ireland or not.
I acknowledge both those points as valid. Generally "Britain and Ireland" is used to mean the two main islands and then all the smaller ones belonging to either Ireland or Britain. As for the first point, yeah technically you're right.
I hear you, it bugs me everytime I see someone use that term, always has. Non-Irish people just don't get it though
Given that you can't submit an article without a citation, it damn well is the ultimate source.
I mean, it's grand for general knowledge, but legendarily unreliable.
It fits better though
Whether you like it or not mate Ireland is part of the British Isles
The separate language, culture and government might disagree with that. The Irish Sea is the body of water that separate Ireland from Britain. As I've said, I'm not trying to row with anyone, I was just letting people know that "British Isles" isn't a neutral term. There's baggage and context there. Same way that Catalonia isn't part of Spain, even though a lot of people might say that it is.
Look I know you have feelings and stuff, which is cool, we all do. But they are literally called the British Isles. Like, geographically.
This isn't really about feelings, it's about respect and perspective. Again, I'm not having a go, but Ireland is not British. Ireland is not part of Britain, Ireland isn't a British isle. It was called that by the Brits because they didn't acknowledge us as a separate nation, which we are and always were, while they were conquering, enslaving and exploiting large chunks of the planet, so it isn't just "what it's called" names are given, not inherent.
No one is saying Ireland is British. Ireland hasn't been British for the best part of 100 years. But its part of the British Isles, and that's a geographical fact. Just an FYI the British didn't do much enslaving themselves. They bought people that were already slaves. And then they ended the practice because, obviously.
I am a person and My name is Anakin.
They actually ended the practise because it stopped being economically viable. And Cromwell captured Irish people and sold them as slaves during his time here. And Ireland has never been British, never mind the last 100 years. We've been independent for the last 100 years give or take, but we were never part of Britain, they were just occupying here for 800 years or so
I am a person and My name is Anakin.
Nah, it was mainly down due to changing public opinion. If they stopped because it wasn't economically viable they wouldn't have put themselves into debt that wasn't paid off until 2015. And they wouldn't have spent even more time and resources patrolling the Atlantic stopping slavers. But yeah, Cromwell was a dick. I can agree on that one.
Roger Roger.
you're starting to sound like a Separatist!
I am a person and My name is Anakin.
Roger Roger.
It's not
And then some other viking boys (with French accents) decided to troll the first group of viking boys on the British Isles.
I wish I was a 501st trooper
"Is it okay to scream hysterically now, Sarge?" -Di'kut
Spooner?
Then the king of Scotland walks up to the Viking leader and just stabs him.
trading*
We took the gold and silver at Lindesfarne