BHRmotorsport wrote:
turbo_bird wrote:
What did they say when they got to England?
What's the punch line to the joke?
Hi Bill! You had to scroll down about half a page. It said "Pillage and pillage"... I'm thinkin' they wuz talkin' trash about how the English women looked...
Hey, at least they didn't rape the cattle and slaughter the women...
I have seen the word "rapine" before, but been to lazy to look it up. Interesting... Are the two words actually related, as in it started out meaning you "took" somebody's woman by force or do the words just sound alike? Hmmm... To the Google, gentlemen!
I have also read that the "Norsemen" were probably equal or maybe more civilized than the English of that time, but they didn't know Christianity or any of its precepts. The English folk would run into the church for sanctuary. The Vikings didn't know what that big building was, and would go right in, swords spears and all and carry on their mission. Thus they were "Barbarians"...
And that concludes the history and vocabulary lesson for today. Back to shop class!
Peace, Love and "Long Spears"--
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