Did the Vikings invade Sunderland?
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dcl0sc
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No that was Henry VIII
alexander
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The inventor of Heads or Tails.
I don't know how much you follow our league teams here but AaB (where we got Prica from) got relegated from our Superliga yesterday for the first time since the league began. In my morning paper today there is a piece about the club. Apparently the club was begun back in the 1880s by English engineers coming to Jutland to build our railwork system. It was originally a cricket club. Learn something new everyday.
Anyway, that was a side-note. Sorry about that, back to topic.
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I didn’t realise they got relegated no. I wonder if the red & white stripes my be Sunderland related. Could be saying as Roker/Seaburn is exactly due east of Jutland.
alexander
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Maybe the engineers came from the North East, who knows. I would love that connection.
Tuono
Winger
I once made a date with a Norwegian lass one drunken night in Haugasund but I couldn't remember if she said Tirsdag or Torsdag so I turned up in the pub both nights, she never showed up either night.
Tex
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Check your map and compass.
Weremuthe
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Not true - I went to a public lecture with Michael Wood (the BBC broadcaster & historian) the at St Peters church and he agreed that there was no evidence of St Peters being ransacked but quite the opposite the warrior monks and the militia fought them off twice and it was documented.
Weremuthe
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The Normans (Norse-man) were their descendants anarl.
"Legend has it that in the late eighth century Charlemagne once caught sight of some Viking ships from his breakfast table while he was visiting the French coast. His hosts assumed that they were merchants, but the emperor knew better and warned that they were “full of fierce foes”. The Franks rushed to the shore with swords drawn, but the Vikings fled so quickly that it seemed as if they had simply vanished. The disappointed courtiers returned to the palace where they were greeted with an astonishing sight. The great Charlemagne, Roman emperor and restorer of world order, was weeping. No one dared to interrupt him, but after a time spent gazing out to sea he explained himself"
“Do you know why I weep so bitterly, my true servants? I have no fear of those worthless rascals doing any harm to me; but I am sad at heart to think that even during my lifetime they have dared to touch this shore; and I am torn by a great sorrow because I foresee what evil things they will do to my descendants and their subjects.”
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Osklen
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According to local tradition Galley Gill marks the place where Danish invaders found shelter for their vessels when plundering the district in Viking times. When the Lambton Coal Staiths were made, the remains of what was identified as a Danish galley were discovered embedded in the ground at the base of the limestone cliff in the old Gill.
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70s traveller
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More than most words people would know are derived from Norse origins. {Similarly with Gaelic].
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hank williams
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Wedve kicked their arses
mind one of my favourite films with Tony Curtis
Mercia Blackcat
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hank williams
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70s traveller
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I had a brief insight when doing Linguistics in the 70s over where our words came from. It was fascinating.
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Tex
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I have a book entitled ‘A Hollywood History of the World’ by George MacDonald Fraser (Flashman) in which he takes a notable film from several periods in history and discusses the merits in terms of historical accuracy.
He says that ‘The Vikings’ is so good it should be shown in every school to get a feel for the times.
Also remember our English teacher telling us ‘ket’ was an old Norse word for ‘trash’ (although like ‘gay’ it’s meaning seems to have evolved in more recent times!)
He says that ‘The Vikings’ is so good it should be shown in every school to get a feel for the times.
Also remember our English teacher telling us ‘ket’ was an old Norse word for ‘trash’ (although like ‘gay’ it’s meaning seems to have evolved in more recent times!)
Lord Potts
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"A furore Normannorum libera nos, Domine"
"Deliver us O Lord from the fury of the Northmen!" ..... was a common prayer at the time.
In his History of Sunderland (pubished 1919) Willaim Mitchell wrote that about 100 years after the Danes were driven away from around the Tyne & Wear by local forces in 794
"...the war vessels of the Danish sea rover Ragner Lodbrog, appeared off the mouth of the Wear. His fleet was shattered by a strom and many of the vessels were driven ashore near Hendon.
A great conflict took place between the English and Danes at Elleshope a valley near Tunstall Hills* when the latter were defeated and their leader captured and put to death.
In 867 Inguar & Hubba the sons of Ragnar Lodbrog came with an imense number of followers to avenge the death of their father and to plunder the whole of Northumbria. The barbarians overcame all opposition and commmitted the most cruel excesses; they set fire to the houses and churches after plundering them of everything of value and put the miserable inhabitants to the sword without distinction of age or sex."
* between Tunstall Road and Silksworth Road
