Viking Expansion - Rollo the Walker - Extra History - #2
Added 2018-11-02 03:37:21 +0000 UTCThe sack of Paris marks a major turning point in the Viking expansion, a time when simple coastal raids became full-scale invasions. But it didn’t have to happen that way...
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So I'm not sure about this factoid, but it's something I've heard about the viking raids on Paris before: Paris wasn't the grand city we think of today. Like they said, it wasn't even Charlemagne's capital. I think it was still a large city, and heavily fortified for the time, and a strategic place with access to France's waterways, but I'm not a Parisian historian. I wouldn't mind some more information on that when you get to Lies.
Erik Eldritch
2018-11-05 15:17:46 +0000 UTC*insert mandatory walking dead joke here*
Chloe413
2018-11-03 02:43:45 +0000 UTCWell that was absolutely amazing guys! (Can we please have a shirt/sticker of Odin save the Queen? Please??) My only commentary is when you do a lot of names like this if you can fit in more distinct colors for the bean people because it's really easy to get them mixed up. Sort of like the crusades episodes.
Ryan Wojciechowski
2018-11-02 23:29:41 +0000 UTCSure, national languages were not a thing yet. People spoke and wrote what we today would call dialects but at the time were local languages. In France there were many, in the north they were related to modern French, in the south they were more like Iberian or Italian languages.
Jonathan Luoto
2018-11-02 20:21:36 +0000 UTC"Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk I'm a woman's man, no time to talk"
Thomas Alfred Weaver
2018-11-02 16:56:55 +0000 UTC*sniff, sniff* There is a joke fit for Hetalia somewhere in this episode!
Joo-Hwan Jun
2018-11-02 15:28:47 +0000 UTCDane-Geld by Rudyard Kipling: It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation To call upon a neighbour and to say: -- "We invaded you last night--we are quite prepared to fight, Unless you pay us cash to go away." And that is called asking for Dane-geld, And the people who ask it explain That you've only to pay 'em the Dane-geld And then you'll get rid of the Dane! It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say: -- "Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you. We will therefore pay you cash to go away." And that is called paying the Dane-geld; But we've proved it again and again, That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld You never get rid of the Dane. It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation, For fear they should succumb and go astray; So when you are requested to pay up or be molested, You will find it better policy to say: -- "We never pay any-one Dane-geld, No matter how trifling the cost; For the end of that game is oppression and shame, And the nation that pays it is lost!"
Rossum
2018-11-02 14:02:40 +0000 UTCOf course! The Doctor travelled back in time with William to let him be his own ancestor. That's why nobody knows where Rollo came from.
themunck
2018-11-02 08:34:23 +0000 UTCIs anybody Else looking Forward to the next Part of the current Series of Vikings later this Month?
Martin Verran
2018-11-02 08:25:05 +0000 UTCSo here's something for Lies -- re 10:44, the "French" Language wasn't really yet a thing in the 10th Century. (Unless you want to make the case that Old Norman and other Langues d'Oil count as "French" as we understand it.)
Brian Rose
2018-11-02 05:46:16 +0000 UTCYou uh.... made the ancester/descendent mistake again
Jonathan Dowding
2018-11-02 05:43:57 +0000 UTC
