My sister is is very interested in the family tree and got me to do a DNA profile.
It turns out that I am 9% Scandinavian. Do any of the Vikings on here know if this enough to get me into Valhalla?
Sacrifice yourself at the end of a rainbow , its the only way to be sure .
Valhalla = Valkyries = (in my head):
At 9% you'll need to be blood eagled (no making noise remember) to have a chance of getting in
It turns out that I am 9% Scandinavian. Do any of the Vikings on here know if this enough to get me into Valhalla?
Nope.
9% will get you 1 free portion of meatballs in Ikea.
9% - Barely enough to get you into Ikea (damn beaten to the Ikea joke)
We're all related to Charlemagne too.
[url= https://www.theguardian.com/science/commentisfree/2015/may/24/business-genetic-ancestry-charlemagne-adam-rutherford ]Apparently[/url].
...If you want to spend your cash on someone in a white coat telling you that you’re descended from Vikings or Saxons or Charlemagne or even Drogo of Metz, help yourself. I, or hundreds of geneticists around the world, will shrug and do it for free, and you don’t even need to spit in a tube.
You'll need to die in battle, don't forget: possibly battling Loki and Fenriz to try and prevent Ragnorok.
Eh, we're all related if you go back far enough.
There's a chapter in Bill Bryson's "Short History of Nearly Everything" which covers this off. It's quite eye-opening how little we really know.
It's not the first time I've heard "9 percent Scandinavian". I bet everybody in Europe has a bit of Norse blood, especially those with Celtic roots.
Please could you give details of how to be blood-eagled. I used to work at Ikea when I was at Uni so maybe I have a chance.
Just found it
[url= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_eagle ]here[/url]
Not sure I like the sound of it, and I don't think I am Royal so I'm not sure it applies.
I'm also likely of viking descent, but also a bit of a woose, can i do a snow angel instead?
It turns out that I am 9% Scandinavian.
You do know that it probably means your ancestors were farmers from Lincolnshire, right? 😉
Most of my family is from up north so I'm probably about 80% sheepshagger and 20% scandinavian rapist.
^ or just 100% sheep rapist (I doubt they have consent) to keep it simple
What percentage Kurgan?
EZrider - Member
… if this enough to get me into Valhalla?
According to my Swedish associates, it will help if you:
Do: Wear a Tor’s Hammer amulet.
Don’t: Have horns on your helmet. (As the first horned Viking* helmets were reckoned to be in a Hollywood film.)
*Other cultures are known to have worn them.
mikey74 - Member
You'll need to die in battle, don't forget…
True - But not difficult in Ikea on a busy weekend.
I have a Depuytrens contracture, which is also known as Viking Disease.
That and my fondness for pillaging means I'm bound to go to Valhalla.
"I don't care if you are 9% Viking. Get that f***ing axe out of my dartboard" - The landlord of the OP's local pub
Do you have a crazy beard and good, solid ten yard stare OP? If so, this may up your percentage to fifteen. This means you're entitled to a free Dime bar on your next Ikea trip
What percentage Kurgan?
Dude, there can be only one.
Don’t: Have horns on your helmet. (As the first horned Viking* helmets were reckoned to be in a Hollywood film.)
I thought the horns myth came about due to their helmets having ear flaps which they could fold up when not fighting. From a distance, the flaps sticking up (quiet at the back) were mistaken for horns. Or is that just another myth also?
Do any of the Vikings on here know if this enough to get me into Valhalla?
It'll get you into Heaven. Not the eternal afterlife - the nightclub. They have a Norse Cosmology theme night on every third thursday of the month.
What percentage Kurgan?
The Kurgan is a sandwich from the most awesome sandwich shop in Glasgow - [url= http://www.monkeysleeps.com/ ]Where the Monkey Sleeps[/url]
As the first horned Viking* helmets were reckoned to be in a Hollywood film
weeeelllll, no quite.
There are quite a few known horny viking helmets, there's a few 5th century ones with snakes/dragons poking out arranged like horns been found in Sweden and the Sutton Hoo helmet has figures on it with horned helmets. So the jury's out, I think .
Cougar – Moderator
I thought the horns myth came about due to their helmets having ear flaps which they could fold up when not fighting. From a distance, the flaps sticking up (quiet at the back) were mistaken for horns. Or is that just another myth also?
I don’t know - I was told the Hollywood thing when I spent a while in Sweden in the 1980s.
Further googling found this:
It is a myth, though, that their helmets were decorated with horns, antlers, or wings…Ornamented Viking helmets entered popular culture and imagination in the 19th century when writers and artists began depicting the Scandinavian marauders wearing them.
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[/IMG]“A stereotypical painting by Mary McGregor from 1908 of Leif Ericson landing at Vinland”
“History.com says the roots of the stereotype may be in the 1800s, when Gustav Malmström, a Swedish artist, and Wagner’s opera costume designer Carl Emil Doepler both depicted Vikings in horned helmets.”
From here:
Exposing the Roots of the Viking Horned Helmet Myth
nickc - Member
weeeelllll, no quite.
There are quite a few known horny viking helmets…
Source? I’d be interested.
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Can you get me a soy bean vanilla mocha half caf 3/4 please mate?
Source? I’d be interested.
oh...yes um...do a search on Sutton Hoo dancing warriors should bring up what you want I'd have thought.
Also, just to say that feeling the will to live drain out of you, in Ikea, is not the same as dying in battle.
And, 9% should get you free viewing of the very excellent Vikings, on Amazon. That's if you have prime.
OP, what is the other 91% of you?
Dancing warriors you say?
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^ Jaysus thats one loose unit
nickc - Member
oh...yes um...do a search on Sutton Hoo dancing warriors should bring up what you want I'd have thought.
Actually, I was aware of the Anglo Saxon helmet found at the Sutton Hoo burial ground - and IIRC that the warriors / beasts depicted could be interpreted as imaginary adversaries.
It was the:
nickc - Member
There are quite a few known horny viking helmets…
That I was interested in – which is why I truncated the quote.
johnx2 - Member
Can you get me a soy bean vanilla mocha half caf 3/4 please mate?
🙂 Horned helmets - Next Hipster trend? Oh no, that’s been done.
Oh right, sorry. 😳
try the Vekso helmets find? Or the migration period metal die found at Orland that has the picture of the warrior (which I think if memory serves) is the one with snakes/dragons
and you could probs go further back than that into the early Bronze age, and look up the Waterloo helmet?
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here, found a picture of the Vekso Helmet...
While we are on Scandi trivia.... Anyone know why the "Bluetooth" coms/connection standard is so called? Answer was on QI a while ago...
I vaguely remember, something to do with some king with the scandiwegian version of the name Bluetooth getting a whole load of tribes to ally with each other; just like bluetooth replaced / superseded loads of different connection protocols
or something like that?
(is a big klaxon currently going off)
I'm 100% English and proud of it.
But my surname shows that I'm descended from a town in Normandy so therefore I'm French.
But Normandy was named after the 'Northmen' that conquered and then settled there so I'm actually Viking.
Who really cares?
Yup. Harold Bluetooth united all the scandi tribes with 1 common language. The bluetooth symbol now displayed on our phones is a combination of the runes for H and B.
Does anyone know where the word for Welsh comes from?
I have a Depuytrens contracture, which is also known as Viking Disease.
The other risk factor is alcoholism which is less cool.
Does anyone know where the word for Welsh comes from?
I know a theory about it.
Does anyone know where the word for Welsh comes from?
Comes from the old English/Anglo-Saxon word for foreigner I think?
Walesch is one spelling I've seen.
The horned helmet thing, possibly they were ceremonial/display helmets rather like HenryVIII grotesque helmet-with-spectacles-and-dreadlocks in the Royal Armouries display, certainly you wouldn't want to wear anything that would catch a sword/axe blade and turn its energy into the cranium - apart from marking you out to every nutter on the other side (trust me, I've experience in this area!)
Welsh comes from the Anglo Saxon for Waelisc, they called all the Britons this when they settled here and as they pushed the 'Waelisc' west they became known as the Waelisc which actually means 'foreigners'.
here, found a picture of the Vekso Helmet...
Those aren't horns, they're straws.
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If anyone else (who can't be bothered to pay for TV) has an interest.
Vikings season 1 (1993) started last Sunday on Freeview.
First episode is repeated tonight (Fri 3 Mar) ch83 'Blaze' 23:00 and continues ep2 Sun 5 Mar ch83 'Blaze' 22:00
