It started with lots of kings ...
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It started with lots of kings ...
... then it went downhill.
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Re: It started with lots of kings ...
Best wishes,
Hans
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Re: It started with lots of kings ...
As quite often happens, pop etymology fails the accuracy test!
The word 'viking'
does not split as 'vi' and 'king'
but either as 'vik' and 'ing'
or not at all, as in 'viking'.
It's from Old Norse, so to some extent lost in the mists of time...
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The word 'viking'
does not split as 'vi' and 'king'
but either as 'vik' and 'ing'
or not at all, as in 'viking'.
It's from Old Norse, so to some extent lost in the mists of time...
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Re: It started with lots of kings ...
I apologise for not picking that up.
I don't know about viking, because I've never viked.
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Re: It started with lots of kings ...
We only have your word for this...!
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Re: It started with lots of kings ...
The last one said: IKING, but for what? Times are really changing, and what's zero?
I knew that, of course, since vik [bay] is a word still in use here.
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Re: It started with lots of kings ...
And we're back where we started.
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Re: It started with lots of kings ...
One I more, and I would be two.
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Re: It started with lots of kings ...
Despite the customary outpouring of jocularity in this thread, I would like to add my solemn appreciation because just this week I began listening to an audiobook, "The Sea Wolves _ A History of the Vikings", a time-waster if ever there was one, when I should be hard at work on my Turing Machines to convert Roman Numbers to Hexadecimal, and vice-versa.
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Re: It started with lots of kings ...
You are welcome, Chris.
If you would like to read some historical fiction, I can recommend The Long Ships (Röde Orm in Swedish), by Frans G. Bengtsson. I haven't read it in translation, but it's full of humour* and adventures. Great fun.
https://www.nyrb.com/products/the-long-ships
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Ships
* Some of that caused by the style; from Wikip: "... but when writing The Long Ships he instead made use of the [Icelandic] saga's faculties for wisecracks and comic understatements." And: "In the Swedish original of The Longships, the grammar is deliberately slightly archaic."
If you would like to read some historical fiction, I can recommend The Long Ships (Röde Orm in Swedish), by Frans G. Bengtsson. I haven't read it in translation, but it's full of humour* and adventures. Great fun.
https://www.nyrb.com/products/the-long-ships
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Ships
* Some of that caused by the style; from Wikip: "... but when writing The Long Ships he instead made use of the [Icelandic] saga's faculties for wisecracks and comic understatements." And: "In the Swedish original of The Longships, the grammar is deliberately slightly archaic."
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Re: It started with lots of kings ...
What Leif said! Kim
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Re: It started with lots of kings ...
Of course!
"The Sea Wolves _ A History of the Vikings", 3h58m20s "... named it Reykjavík, which means 'smoky bay;'"
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Re: It started with lots of kings ...
The correct conjugation . . .
IBKING, UBKING, WEBKING!
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