David Croyle
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Can't believe we now have to wait for 2015...
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David Croyle
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Nice!!!
Malamute
Adventurist
I've seen clips of this but havent seen any episodes yet, I dont have a TV. For those that are catching up, or dont have TV's, if you go to your local library, they may have complete seasons on DVD to borrow, or they may be able to get them from other libraries on interlibrary loan, which costs all of $3 here to have them meailed to the local library. I've seen quite a lot of various TV shows this way. Caught up with several seasons of Game of Thrones this way also. Sometimes it takes a while for them to come out on disc and show up at the library.
Sometimes the network that broadcasts them will show them for free on their website a week after they are first broadcast.
Life can be pretty gruesome yet today in many parts of the world. If you go to LiveLeak.com and search peshmerga, IS or Kobani, theres plenty of grisly evidence. There seems to be mountains of dead IS jihadists in these.
Sometimes the network that broadcasts them will show them for free on their website a week after they are first broadcast.
Life can be pretty gruesome yet today in many parts of the world. If you go to LiveLeak.com and search peshmerga, IS or Kobani, theres plenty of grisly evidence. There seems to be mountains of dead IS jihadists in these.
A-yah... the more things change the more they stay the same.
DiamondBackMatt
Adventurist
Oh yeah. I love the opening song too. Excellent show.
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The_jayhawker
Adventurist
I`ve traced my ancestry all the way back to Sweden. Fjallbacka, Sweden to be precise. Small coastal town on the SW coast across from Denmark,and close to the border on Norway. The show is awesome and maybe a little glimpse of the old family ways.
DiamondBackMatt
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I did 2 ops in Norway in the corp. First was up north near Tromso with 10th Marines for cold weather training in '86 I believe, then TEECG -Tactical Exercise Evaluation Control Group near Trondheim and Oslo . That was the largest International War Games at the time '87. Germans, Daines, Norwegians, and U.S. I believe the op was called Northern Wedding. Rolling around the country side with 2 platoons of Tanks, LAAVs, and TOWS. Beautiful country and nice people!
M&M Overland Adventures
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Ok, I'm hooked. This thing came up on Hulu+ and now I'm well into Season 2.
Some of the names started sounding familiar, so I had to look them up. From doing my family tree, I know on my mom's side, a VERY distant relative is William Longsword and his sons, six dukes of Normandy. William is the son of Rollo, Ragnar's brother. Kinda exciting!
Some of the names started sounding familiar, so I had to look them up. From doing my family tree, I know on my mom's side, a VERY distant relative is William Longsword and his sons, six dukes of Normandy. William is the son of Rollo, Ragnar's brother. Kinda exciting!
megacabcummins
Adventurist
DVR is primed and ready....
T McArthur
Adventurist
Any relation to William the Conqueror? That would be ironic.
Heh! Ready?
William Longsword is the great-great-grandfather of William the Conqueror.
Rollo fathered William Longsword
William Longsword (William I) fathered Richard the Fearless (Richard I),
Richard I fathered Richard II,
Richard II fathered Robert I,
Robert I fathered William The Conqueror.
The "Six Dukes" of Normandy; William I, Richard I, Richard II, Robert I, Richard III, William The Conqueror
The part of France known as Normandy was given to Rollo by King Charles as part of a treaty, and his lineage were the Dukes of Normandy. Some of them pressed into England establishing kingdoms there. The first being William the Conqueror, then his sons, William II, Henry I.
This statue is in Falaise, France. Birthplace of William the Conqueror. It features the six dukes. Rollo is also featured.
William Longsword is the great-great-grandfather of William the Conqueror.
Rollo fathered William Longsword
William Longsword (William I) fathered Richard the Fearless (Richard I),
Richard I fathered Richard II,
Richard II fathered Robert I,
Robert I fathered William The Conqueror.
The "Six Dukes" of Normandy; William I, Richard I, Richard II, Robert I, Richard III, William The Conqueror
The part of France known as Normandy was given to Rollo by King Charles as part of a treaty, and his lineage were the Dukes of Normandy. Some of them pressed into England establishing kingdoms there. The first being William the Conqueror, then his sons, William II, Henry I.
This statue is in Falaise, France. Birthplace of William the Conqueror. It features the six dukes. Rollo is also featured.
T McArthur
Adventurist
Great series. History channel has done it right. Mitch inspired me to do some in depth research I'd like to share. Props to him!
Ragnar Lothbrok was a Danish Viking, king of Denmark and probably a Jute by ethnicity. He lived in the 800s. The show has him living in a steeply mountainous coastal area. Not a lot of that in Denmark. Note where Kattegat is located.
Ragnar's murder at the hands of King Aelle of Northumbria led to the invasion of Northumbria by the Great Heathen Army in which Ragnar's sons killed Aelle and installed King Egbert of Wessex as the new King.
Interesting historical sidelight. The inhabitants of England were closely related to the Vikings. Originally it had all been Picts and Celts and eventually Romans. After the Romans departed the land was colonized by the Angles, Saxons and Jutes over the next couple of centuries (AD 400-700). This was the age in which the Arthurian legends are set, in which Christianity struggled to survive in the face of being overrun by Odin worshipers. The Angles came from central Denmark and lent their name to the country and language (English and England). The Saxons came from north central Germany and loaned their name to the culture (Anglo-Saxon) and the Jutes from Northern Denmark which is still sometimes called Jutland. The first invaders were true Vikings until the Christians took over. They were a sea based culture and had never been taken by Rome.
In 1066 England was being invaded on two fronts. Coming in from the east was a Viking army, led by Harald Hardrada, King of Norway. Coming in from the south was William of Normandy
Edward the Confessor was the ruler of England who finally broke from being under the control of Denmark. Harold Godwinson, his closest advisor and brother-in-law, claimed the throne after Edward the Confessor died. England at the time was a land dominated by ethnic Angles and Saxons (Anglo-Saxon) but run by the Jutes of Denmark. It had to pay regular Danegeld to retain any autonomy at all. Technically it still was under Denmark's control but Denmark was too busy in its own civil war to enforce this. (This conflict was later played out in Shakespeare's Hamlet.)
Harthacut, the king of Denmark and Harald Hardrada, the king of Norway had a deal whereby whoever died first would combine their kingdoms together. Harthacut died first. Hadrada figured he now owned Britain. Britain objected, so Norway went to war and sent a Viking invasion force. Harold met this army at Stamford Bridge near York and after a long and bloody battle the Vikings were repelled. Only 24 of their 240 ships made it back.
William, Duke of Normandy also believed himself to the the true ruler of Britain. According to him, Edward the Confessor had promised the land to him upon his demise. Not long after the Vikings were repulsed he launched his own invasion. At the Battle of Hastings he met the much weakened English army and defeated it, also killing Harold. Had not the Vikings invaded first, it is likely Harold would have defeated William but possibly lost to them. England may have remained under Norse control.
However, the Normans were themselves not far from Viking extraction. They spoke French (one of the Romance languages) because they'd been long occupied by Rome but had strong genetic ties to people of the north. Norman was derived from Norseman. Britany, an adjacent province of France was populated by Bretons. Ragnar Lothbrok actually invaded northern France, going all the way to Paris. Charles the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor at the time, was forced to offer concessions. As noted above, Rollo, Ragnar's brother, had a son named William who eventually became the first Duke of Normandy. Within a hundred years of the Battle of Hastings, the Normans controlled all of England, Normandy, southern Italy, the area formerly known as Carthage and what today is Lebanon. They were still a seafaring people, one reason the British navy was never surpassed until the 20th century.
Ragnar Lothbrok was a Danish Viking, king of Denmark and probably a Jute by ethnicity. He lived in the 800s. The show has him living in a steeply mountainous coastal area. Not a lot of that in Denmark. Note where Kattegat is located.
Ragnar's murder at the hands of King Aelle of Northumbria led to the invasion of Northumbria by the Great Heathen Army in which Ragnar's sons killed Aelle and installed King Egbert of Wessex as the new King.
Interesting historical sidelight. The inhabitants of England were closely related to the Vikings. Originally it had all been Picts and Celts and eventually Romans. After the Romans departed the land was colonized by the Angles, Saxons and Jutes over the next couple of centuries (AD 400-700). This was the age in which the Arthurian legends are set, in which Christianity struggled to survive in the face of being overrun by Odin worshipers. The Angles came from central Denmark and lent their name to the country and language (English and England). The Saxons came from north central Germany and loaned their name to the culture (Anglo-Saxon) and the Jutes from Northern Denmark which is still sometimes called Jutland. The first invaders were true Vikings until the Christians took over. They were a sea based culture and had never been taken by Rome.
In 1066 England was being invaded on two fronts. Coming in from the east was a Viking army, led by Harald Hardrada, King of Norway. Coming in from the south was William of Normandy
Edward the Confessor was the ruler of England who finally broke from being under the control of Denmark. Harold Godwinson, his closest advisor and brother-in-law, claimed the throne after Edward the Confessor died. England at the time was a land dominated by ethnic Angles and Saxons (Anglo-Saxon) but run by the Jutes of Denmark. It had to pay regular Danegeld to retain any autonomy at all. Technically it still was under Denmark's control but Denmark was too busy in its own civil war to enforce this. (This conflict was later played out in Shakespeare's Hamlet.)
Harthacut, the king of Denmark and Harald Hardrada, the king of Norway had a deal whereby whoever died first would combine their kingdoms together. Harthacut died first. Hadrada figured he now owned Britain. Britain objected, so Norway went to war and sent a Viking invasion force. Harold met this army at Stamford Bridge near York and after a long and bloody battle the Vikings were repelled. Only 24 of their 240 ships made it back.
William, Duke of Normandy also believed himself to the the true ruler of Britain. According to him, Edward the Confessor had promised the land to him upon his demise. Not long after the Vikings were repulsed he launched his own invasion. At the Battle of Hastings he met the much weakened English army and defeated it, also killing Harold. Had not the Vikings invaded first, it is likely Harold would have defeated William but possibly lost to them. England may have remained under Norse control.
However, the Normans were themselves not far from Viking extraction. They spoke French (one of the Romance languages) because they'd been long occupied by Rome but had strong genetic ties to people of the north. Norman was derived from Norseman. Britany, an adjacent province of France was populated by Bretons. Ragnar Lothbrok actually invaded northern France, going all the way to Paris. Charles the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor at the time, was forced to offer concessions. As noted above, Rollo, Ragnar's brother, had a son named William who eventually became the first Duke of Normandy. Within a hundred years of the Battle of Hastings, the Normans controlled all of England, Normandy, southern Italy, the area formerly known as Carthage and what today is Lebanon. They were still a seafaring people, one reason the British navy was never surpassed until the 20th century.
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T McArthur
Adventurist
To think that Ragnar and company frightened the Holy Roman Empire so much they paid him vast amounts of money and gave them part of France just to make him go away. That was no regional King in a backwards island. HRE was a world power at the time.
