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Elarie
Grey Havens
Sep 19 2016, 11:24am
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Vikings in New York!
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The world's largest Viking ship is currently docked in New York!
However, no burning or looting is expected unless the mead runs out. 
http://icelandmag.visir.is/...rrived-new-york-city
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Gold is the strife of kinsmen,
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ElanorTX
Tol Eressea
Sep 19 2016, 11:50am
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Do you know if there will be a book or documentary?
"I shall not wholly fail if anything can still grow fair in days to come."
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NottaSackville
Valinor
Sep 19 2016, 12:19pm
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It's going to be there in-between my trips to the big city. Bummer.
Notta
Happiness: money matters, but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important and so are friends, while envy is toxic -- and so is excessive thinking. Beaches are optional. Trust is not. Neither is gratitude. - The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner as summarized by Lily Fairbairn. And a bit of the Hobbit reading thrown in never hurts. - NottaSackville
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Elarie
Grey Havens
Sep 19 2016, 1:10pm
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about a book or documentary, but if you go to YouTube and search for Draken Harald Harfagre some nice videos come up.
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Gold is the strife of kinsmen,
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and the path of the serpent.
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Bracegirdle
Valinor
Sep 19 2016, 1:14pm
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The Vikings beat the Packers - 17 - 14 //
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‘. . . the rule of no realm is mine . . .
But all worthy things that are in peril . . . those are my care.
For I also am a steward. Did you not know?'
Gandalf to Denethor
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Elarie
Grey Havens
Sep 19 2016, 2:50pm
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Whoever heard of a Packer ship? And when was the last time anyone found a Packer sword? As for those Packer raids - ha! My grandmother could beat them off with a broom.  
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Gold is the strife of kinsmen,
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and the path of the serpent.
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Elarie
Grey Havens
Sep 19 2016, 3:17pm
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Gold is the strife of kinsmen,
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Eowyn of Penns Woods
Valinor
Sep 19 2016, 11:09pm
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That looks like non-standard issue from where I'm standing ;)
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Elarie
Grey Havens
Sep 20 2016, 11:15am
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for extra cuddly Vikings?
By the way, LOVE the sweater in your link!
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Eowyn of Penns Woods
Valinor
Sep 20 2016, 4:32pm
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I'm going to try to do a better job knitting another one using a new colorwork technique. Maybe with more colors.
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NARF: NWtS Chapter Member since June 17,2011
(This post was edited by Eowyn of Penns Woods on Sep 20 2016, 4:33pm)
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Greenwood Hobbit
Valinor
Sep 20 2016, 4:41pm
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I was lucky enough to go on board
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the Draken when she visited Merseyside on an earlier voyage. It was wonderful to see such a fine piece of living history at close quarters. Her mast broke at sea, so she stayed not far from where I live while a new one was made. She was strengthened for the Atlantic voyage, and slightly better crew accommodation provided - though it still looked very spartan to me! The Facebook page has a lot of interesting information and some great vids to watch. Made me seasick just looking at them... hope they haev fair weather on the voyage back to norway - it's been quite a seafaring summer!
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Elarie
Grey Havens
Sep 20 2016, 6:43pm
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And thanks for the Facebook tip - I didn't even think about them having a Facebook page!
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Gold is the strife of kinsmen,
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and the path of the serpent.
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Elizabeth
Half-elven
Sep 23 2016, 2:04am
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I was in Roskilde a few weeks ago...
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...and saw the stabilized remains of the large ship (as well as several others recovered from the nearby fjord, and also the exact reconstructions they've made. The warships could accomodate 60 or more armed warriors!
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Elizabeth
Half-elven
Sep 23 2016, 2:13am
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Crossing the Atlantic is pretty extreme.
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The colleagues of Erik the Red worked their way along island-hopping. I don't know the longest single reach this ship took, but I doubt they went more than a couple of days without landing. And there's pretty much no way 50 or 60 warriors would be comfortable in one of the warships. But, then, Vikings didn't expect comfort!
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Elarie
Grey Havens
Sep 23 2016, 2:58pm
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That sounds like a wonderful trip
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I had to google it to see what ships you mean and they look so interesting, both the original remains and the reconstructions. Would love to see that museum!
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swordwhale
Tol Eressea
Sep 24 2016, 12:36am
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My experience with viking ships is much smaller: 30 to 40 foot vessels of the Longship Company (longshipco.org). We spent over five days on the Potomac River in 1984, and that was fairly epic. Sleeping on the ground at marinas or kind of propped up against the hull on the floor or thwarts (there is a lyfting deck over the bilges).
I cant imagine doing a transatlantic crossing. Even on a hundred foot vessel the freeboard would be ridiculously low.
But then, about the same time as the Vikings amazing voyage to Lans aux Meadows (sorry, just mangled French) the Ploynesians were crossing the wild reaches of the Pacific in double hulled canoes with no more freeboard than the Vikings.
Insanely skilled sailors all.
bigger on the inside...
Na 'Aear, na 'Aear! Mýl 'lain nallol, I sûl ribiel a i falf 'loss reviol...
To the sea, to the sea, the white gulls are crying, the wind is blowing and the white foam is flying...
Member of Manure Movers Local 101, Raptor Wranglers & Rehab, and Night Fury Trainers Assoc. Owned by several cats and a very small team of maniacal sled dogs... sorry Radagast, those rabbits were delicious...
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