Recent content by Freki

I will be there too :heh: !

Agreed, he is truly a "larger than life"-character and the amount of battles he participated in (and won) during his lifetime is just amazing.

Ok I've seen the first 2 episodes now and I must say it's not bad! Like I suspected it's "hollywodised" i e dumbed down, and far from historically accurate, but many details aremore accurate than I would have expected. I don't think it claims to be entirely accurate either. That they "discover"...

Looks very hollywood-ised but could still be good I guess. I also very much like Byrne as an actor.

On a slightly related note: http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=94&artikel=5411818 2 amazing shipgravefinds with 40 scandinavian warriors from the 8th century, probably from mälardalen or gotland found on the estonian island of ösel. They were probably there to take tribute...

If you look at the statistics on aa-vids on youtube you will see that they have exploded lately, basically all of the ones ive seen. Some vids that had a couple of hundred thousand views a year ago have a couple of million views now. Why this is I dont know, could be their intensive touring, the...

I just pasted that into google translate, wow I'm actually impressed. Google translate has come a long way! Only real error I found was "Thursday hammers" (and some small grammatic errors) :D. http://www.arkeologigamlauppsala.se/Sv/nyheter/2012/Pages/ny-bild-av-gamla-uppsala.aspx

On Gotland they still make oldschool vikingbeer. They call it Gotlandsdricka (drink): http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotlandsdricka my translation: Gotlandsdrink is a form of the older type of beer that was brewed in Scandinavia during the viking age and the early middle ages. Since hop...

They found a vikingsword, unfortunately bent and in bad shape. But still cool :) http://www.arkeologigamlauppsala.se/Sv/nyheter/2012/Pages/vikingatida-svard.aspx

Actually that is an awesome idea! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=T_J2UywDr9o#t=3632s HONEY! its made from HONEY!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varangian_Guard: Fuck you Eric the Good! :muahaha:

Only 12% !? This does not please Odinn! But I guess I can always drink 1 more to make up for the lack of alcohol :tickled:.

Sorry, Jomsborg vikings seem to be historically confirmed that they existed, my bad. Still, there are a lot of things from the viking age we don't know for certain.

Well the problem is they still don't actually know that much of what actually happened at the time. The contemporary sources are few and sparse and can't be trusted to be accurate. Take the battle of Svolder for example. Noone knows where Svolder is, or if the battle actually happened...

For those interested in archeology and the viking age I just want you to know that the largest excavation ever of Gamla Uppsala is taking place now (and has been going on for a while). http://www.arkeologigamlauppsala.se/Sv/Pages/default.aspx I guess most of you know it already but Gamla...