At 1:01:00 they’re playing “Anchors Aweigh”? Crazy.
I may not catch your joke properly but are’ nt U a bit sarcastic ??
Not at all. I found it pretty funny.
Maybe that melody would suite better with this viking ship:
Dire Straits is appropriate. Seas of thirty feet in Western Atlantic yesterday.
Are you a Viking descendent?
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PS: Did you notice there are no helmet with horn to be seen?
Could Hollywood have got this wrong somehow?
Why are we discussing them?
Their whole ouevre was massacre, pillage and being most disagreaable.
Anybody does that these days and it’s just all negative press and wokeism.
Great seamen, navigators, warriors but their decline was a result of Olaf ordering 50000 helmets which arrived with the horns on the inside.
You mean Oluf?:
I don’t know for sure where he order his “helmets” from, but
I heard that he brought his first one from Amazon that had the “horns” on the inside:
He didn’t like that, but then he found this one on Temu for 1/10 the price (free freight):
Since then he stuck to this model, with the “horns” clearly on the outside.
Never heard of “Oluf”?
It is a comical character played by Arthur Arntzen (RIP): Arthur Arntzen (writer) - Wikipedia
Well know for his “salty” jokes and language from Northern Norway, (specifically Tromsø).
Here is a classical example of his brand of humor (Starts at 1:10):
https://youtu.be/cMG68ElWc9Q
Sorry, nothing in English, but the actions speaks for themselves, almost.
World’s bigliest Vikingship is getting readied for a season of adventures:
Here is where she’ll be heading:
What the vikings did was hardly unique. The Polynesians originated from modern day Taiwan and migrated the length of the Pacific. Many Indigenous peoples lived and survived in inhospitable climates.
Oh. Remember Stamford Bridge. Yes William got his own back a couple of weeks later but he was a transplanted viking and the blokes who had been in battle previously were a bit tired.
Yes William the Conquer was of good Viking Stock. Great-grate-Grandson of Gange-Rolf (aka Rollon) who came from the island Giske, near Ålesund.
A statue of him stands in a park in Ålesund:
The statue of Rollo was a gift to Ålesund in connection with the 1000 year anniversary for the conquering and foundation of the duchy Normandie in 911. (Another statue is located in Fargo, USA)
Source: Gange-Rolv
Spreading of the North Germanic language, mainly by what is today commonly known as Vikings, from their voyages and settlements around Northern and Eastern Europe and around the North Atlantic:
The “Myklebust”, world’s largest replica Viking ship was launched last week:
On Thursday, 28 strong women pulled the Myklebust ship out of Sagastad – and with that, this year’s launch at Nordfjordeid officially began.
PS: Last year the world’s strongest man Martin Licis did the job alone.
Last weekend the ship did it’s first trip for the season, with Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon and his son Prince Sverre Magnus among those manning the oars:
Crown Prince Haakon and Prince Sverre Magnus took the plunge when the Myklebust ship was launched in Nordfjordeid on Saturday. Photo: Frederik Ringnes / NTB
Video:
The ship is now read for an exiting summer season.
More info on this amazing ship: