answers to your questiojn you will find in Questions and Answers about Language (QaAaL), click on FAQ (frequently asked questions) and look under FAQ #6. I've heard that there are still words which are the same in Hungarian and Finnish. Apparently, there's a sentence that is exactly the same in both languages, and menas exactly the same thing. can you tell me what that sentence looks like (I speak Finnish so I can understand the words).

Actually, Vikings lived in several countries. These notorious sea raiders and explorers hailed from three Scandinavian homelands: Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. The Danes made their mark in the British Isles and along the coastlines of Europe. The Norwegians sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to reach America. And the Swedes traveled up Russian rivers to reach Constantinople and the Orient.

Vikings developed in Scandinavia from the earlier clan-based cultures that formerly lived there. After raiding Europe, many Vikings brought back ideas that changed their culture, making them more like Europeans. By 1050 AD, Viking culture had undergone significant change, especially the conversion of many to Christianity. Afterwards, the descendants of the Vikings called themselves Norwegians, Danes, Swedes or Scandinavians.

Viking burials often used boats like we use caskets today. For the highest status people, large ships were often buried with the dead. Some Vikings preferred to be cremated. But even then, the ashes were buried with artifacts the dead had used in their life, perhaps because the Vikings believed they could reuse these objects in the next life. To learn more about Viking ship burials follow the link.

Historians say the Viking Age began in 793 AD with the raid on Lindisfarne monastery in England, and ended in 1066 AD with the defeat of the Viking king Harald by English king Harold.

The Vikings were a seafaring people living along the long coast of the Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Norway and Sweden) between 750 and 1050 AD. The term Viking more specifically refers to the part-time warrior/raiders who left their homelands and plundered the riches of France, England and other parts of Europe.

No helmets with horns have ever been found in all of the Viking warrior gear that researchers have found. In fact, Vikings rarely wore helmets at all!

The Vikings played a lot of card and board games, especially during the winter. One of the games Vikings used to play is a board game called Hnefatafl which means "king's board or game" in Old Norse. This chess-like game of strategy simulated a Viking raid and the object of the game was to trap the King's piece.

Until the 1960s, scholars had no evidence other than the sagas that proved Vikings had reached North America. However, the discovery of Viking house foundations and artifacts at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada offers proof that Vikings did, in fact, reach North America 1000 years ago!

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Oh yeah, I had a great time! A little overloaded with aprehension early on, and there was more than a little "let's get this over with" towards the end, but overall it was a joy and a thrill to be out there. Also, I had the rare treat of being able to do those deep-backcountry descents without 40+ lbs of gear on my back (yes, on the forgiving snow that's common in the springtime Sierra, backcountry skis like the Karhu Catamounts that I used do telemark quite nicely).

Them's the rules - please abide by them. ;-) (BTW - you have NO idea how many typo's cropped up in just this alone - that's the beauty of being able to look and correct BUT (as Marlene said so very well - we are supposed to like each other for who we are, and what we are, ....... not how we look - and that goes for how we look in type!. *G* So it goes for typo's and chat too. ;) hmmm, Diane, somehow I don't think the same applies to me.

Pulling a Diane ;) and checking in quick. Between camping and Nedra's spay, and weddings (we are at that time iin our lives where there is one EVERY weekend), cookouts, and holidays I just dont have time to breathe. WHEW! Nedra's spay went wonderfully, we went and visited her tonight and she looked great. We will be allowed to pick her up tomorrow, but she was more than ready to come home tonight, she looked so sad that she had to go back with the vet assistant! My sweet girl.

Artifacts found by archaeologists include many combs, pins, earwax removers and even an ironing board! It seems the Vikings were much cleaner than we think.

I did. I really wanted to make him so over the top it would be absurd, and every time I thought I got there players were all like "Yay, give us more!" I seem to get to write at least one quirky character in every ARG I'm involved with :) Something I did want to say too is that you guys were great about the mlo character's voice mail.

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