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![[mood icon]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v119/Crimson_Moon/K9%20Moodtheme/scared.gif) nit-picky
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Only a Theory - "Babies see things upside-down."
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People. PEOPLE.
The people who lived in Scandinavia between one and three thousand years ago, who did a bit of raiding around the Northumberland coast and worshipped Odin, Týr, and Thor?
NOT. VIKINGS.
Well. Some of 'em were Vikings. That is because Viking was a job description. It more or less meant "far-farer" - i.e. a travelling, sea-faring warrior/pirate/raider/killing-people-who-aren't-us-person. It's like calling the English "bankers" or the Welsh "sheep-shaggers" just because they're the most recognisable employment-based stereotypes of those cultures.
The correct word is, if you need a unified word for the many disparate and often terminally argumentative groups of people who populated - broadly - that area at - broadly - that time and worshipped - broadly - those gods and partook - broadly - in those activities would be Norsemen.
Okay?
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| Fuck me. I guess I get to go to uni, then. Woah. |
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| Nov. 4th, 2009 |
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![[mood icon]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v119/Crimson_Moon/K9%20Moodtheme/happy.gif) jubilant
Analgesic
FTR -"Apparently we'd rather kill people than oppose Islam."
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I. Just got. An unconditional offer. From Royal Holloway.
HOLY SHIT.
HOLY SHIT.
HOLY SHIT.
This is probably the best thing that's ever happened to me.
That's the next three years of my life sorted, then.
Yee!
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