(03-30-2018, 10:15 PM)Adde Wrote:  

(03-30-2018, 05:30 PM)Accidental Stoner Wrote:  Look, esteemed Royal College of Surgeons:

To go "viking"
meant to hide with your ship in a gulf or fjord

I had a fjord but it had engine probs  

Go with an Opal

(03-30-2018, 05:53 PM)Octo Wrote:  They didn't like to bring Finns on their trips because they feared them since they have magic properties.

However, this WAS Sweden. The whole north of Sweden was administered from here not so long ago.

That was an interesting tid bit. So, how did these magic properties manifest?

I think my hubby's ancestry might be mingled with Viking blood and who knows what other lines...maybe Spanish too. Maybe we should do a DNA test.

They were thought to control the weather

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_mo..._mythology

Well with Vikings sailing in open vessels that would be of the utmost importance.

(03-30-2018, 05:55 PM)Octo Wrote:  

Quote:Some American Indians, like some Europeans, had rituals which they believed could induce rain. The Finnish people, on the other hand, were believed by others to be able to control weather. As a result, Vikings refused to take Finns on their oceangoing raids. Remnants of this superstition lasted into the twentieth century, with some ship crews being reluctant to accept Finnish sailors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_modification

well it's true about some american indians/Rain Dance
..knew a half blooded indian guy who made it rain & stop raining three times (we were outside on my deck)one sunny day,3 sunshowers & no clouds in the sky at the time.
i didn't believe him when he said he could do it/then he did it 3x /stopped it 3x
(indian chant danced to start/indian chant danced to stop)
..it was AMAZING!
(i'm guessing he had hereditary shaman bloodline)

Yes, shamanism used to be strong around here too

my half indian friend has since passed away too young
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c...Candle.jpg

Quote:Between 1860 and 1924 some 370,000 people left Finland for North America to seek a better life. The main reasons to emigrate were unemployment, social problems and the period of ‘Russification’ before Independence--but a desire for adventure was also a factor. In America Finns worked in the forests and the mines. While out in the woods and at trade union meetings they met Native Americans and even married some of them. The majority of marriages were with members of the Ojibwa tribe, the largest in the region. Finns tended to have less knowledge about their new home country--and therefore also fewer prejudices about the people native to the land.

https://kritterbox.com/Topic-The-Findians

I can vouch for that octo cuz they are in my area/american Finns

I know

My mothers haplotype is common in Scandinavia, but that's because the Vikings used to kidnap women from Britain.

Hello RR

(04-02-2018, 06:33 AM)RiskyRob Wrote:  My mothers haplotype is common in Scandinavia, but that's because the Vikings used to kidnap women from Britain.

More than that, recent studies have shown that a MUCH higher percentage of the people of England, Scotland and Ireland have Viking blood than anyone would have guessed.

(04-02-2018, 06:33 AM)RiskyRob Wrote:  My mothers haplotype is common in Scandinavia, but that's because the Vikings used to kidnap women from Britain.

Maybe your mother comes from a line of fine Viking warrior women