Surely this can't be a troll thread! Especially considering the OP's latest news post and past threads!

"Tr-Tr-Tro....

Very pleased with the reactions I am getting...hmm..."

Complete and utter fail. Better luck next time.

At 10/3/09 05:34 AM, vdviking wrote: 1) Hrafninn flýgur (1984)
AKA Revenge of the Barbarians or When the Raven Flies
A story about honour and revenge.

2) Í skugga hrafnsins (1988)
AKA Shadow of the Raven
This film is about family honour and the clash between Christianity and the Old Norse beliefs.

3) Hvíti víkingurinn (1991)
AKA The White Viking
Another great film about honour and blood, and again the clash between the new and the old.

Awesome, thanks for posting. I've been looking for stuff like this!

If anybody knows of any decent viking documentaries, that'd be pretty cool too.

Concerning the "Viking Revival", I'm suprised that nobody mentioned the opera Richard Wagner's "The Ring Cycle" or "The Ring of the Nibelung", 4 epic operas with gods primarily based on the norse gods and sagas. This started up in the late 19th century and is still referenced, well known, and performed.

More Information...

At 7/29/09 06:07 AM, HeavyTank wrote:

At 7/28/09 03:31 PM, Leidolfr wrote: I am, as well as being Scandonavian, am Irish [ Actually German Irish Norwegian Swedish and Passamaquoddy ]

Passamawhat?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Passamaquoddy

It was a native american tribe located primarily in maine, according to the interwebs.

At 7/7/09 07:18 AM, HeavyTank wrote: Whoah, l just found out these two awesome books about Vikings..
Excpect a lot of info from me from now on..
Just lemme write down all the stuff or use OCR ;)

What books? Titles or linkage please :)

This is a response to the "3 Giant swords" question, I'm guessing you're reffering to this http://www.stavangertravel.com/trip/thre eswords.cfm

Never heard of it before but there's a short description on that site there (along with some pictures). Just had to do a short google search.

Going back to the question of viking weapons, I just found this http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles /manufacturing/text/viking_sax.htm a minute ago. Apparently the vikings used a special kind of blade called a sax, I have never heard this before so maybe one of you guys could enlighten me.

At 6/6/09 09:44 AM, DeathNoteetoNhtaeD wrote:

At 6/6/09 05:19 AM, HeavyTank wrote: Whoa guys slow down with the posting, as soon as l read a post anohter one comes out :P

And HaveUbeenFooFighting, welcome to the army. Read up on vdviking's rules, if you haven't already.

Ah, yeah I've already read the news posts, interesting post on runes by the way.

Ah, Thanks that fills in some information I've been looking for. The thing that bugs me though is that all the sources I've looked at mention "Ragnar's Saga" but all I can find is "The Tale of Ragnar's Sons (http://www.northvegr.org/lore/oldheathe n/055.php). He was a famous viking king who supposedly raided France a bunch of times and amassed quite an army, but I can't find any books on him or anything :| Ah well, I'll settle for this information until I amass some more books :P

At 6/6/09 12:15 AM, Leidolfr wrote: B.) Next book, I notice you have alot of the sagas, but no Njalls saga, Njalls saga was, in my opinion the more of the complex, in depth sagas, and I consider it to be the best over all.

I'd like to join since I have an shitton of books about vikings including: The Saga of Grettir the Strong, Njal's Saga...

I do have Njal's saga, however I haven't read it yet. What the hell were you reading :P

Those first two were great, thanks.

To get a bunch of questions out of the way right now...

A)I have to ask, does anybody know of any other viking-related message boards?

B) What do you guys recommend I get next as far as books? History books or Sagas, doesn't matter.

Also, I Forget to mention in first post that I also have the Penguin Viking Atlas :)

C) Recently I've been trying to find more information on Ragnar Lodbrok/Lothbrok, however I'm having trouble finding stuff on him. What texts are he mentioned in? About the only thing I could find was the wikipedia article which seemed to be very contradictory. I read that there is a Ragnar's Saga, but I can't find an english translation of it anywhere :\ I'll ask more once somebody else posts XD

At 6/5/09 01:53 AM, vdviking wrote: As for quotes, in what context, you want something cool to put in your sig or just hear some good stories?

Ah, No I have plenty of good stories. I was looking more for some meaningful quotes or memorable quotes.
And yeah, I'll definitely be a returning poster due to my sudden obsession with vikings and nobody to talk to them about with :D

I'd like to join since I have an shitton of books about vikings including: The Saga of Grettir the Strong, Njal's Saga, Saga of the Volsungs, Heimskringla(The Saga of the kings of Norway), and the Orkneyinga Saga (the last two are on their way) and I plan on getting a lot more over the summer.

Well, I have a question for you all. Are there any memorable quotes by vikings in real life or literature? I've been trying to find some but all I can come up with are viking proverbs. If anybody could come up with some that'd be awesome, thanks.

It doesn't even deserve the name Sci-Fi anymore. There's too many shit shows on there now. (Seriously, Anime and Wrestling on the SCI-FI CHANNEL? WTF?)

You know there's a politics section right? In here you're only going to get made fun of...

At 4/22/08 12:46 AM, Bolo wrote:

At 4/22/08 12:04 AM, Shawn wrote:

Catholics are Christians; the retarded Christians.

Fixed.

Kill yourself.

Also, I find it hilarious that yaaah trick yaaah or whatever the hell that song is was written as a joke yet everyone is accepting it with open arms.

At 3/23/08 11:52 PM, TheBlackDahliaMurder wrote: (70 views - 5 replies)

No surprises here.

Every new thread is like that moron(s), not just ones about porn and whatnot.

Here it is 20x20 put it where you want to.

WoW. Better graphics, better gameplay, more areas, more skills, more classes.

And if it takes you 4 hours to update your computer must suck ass.

That's a parody site, dumbass.

Spore.

I'll join. I play PC alot and am good with heavies, and can get the job done as demo and engineers. I play PC, and I'll join your steam community in a second.

Looks like a TF2 sentry gun. Awesome.

At 1/26/08 12:32 AM, Zanarchy wrote: The door must be locked. I must use a newly washed towel each time I shower. The curtain must touch the wall on both sides. I cannot get out of the shower until the hot water is gone. I must face the fall the majority of the time
If those things don't happen I get anxious and nervous.

The same as this guy minus the anxious and nervous part.

It obviously depends on where, obviously. I'm sure ALL of England's roads aren't that bad.

At 1/16/08 06:32 PM, ClockMuffin wrote: I understand most of the Newgrounders viewing this is 13 years and under

Age/Gender: 14, Male

Oh the irony. I'm 15, but I don't go around acting high and mighty because I'm 1-2 years older then someone. Once I read your post I knew you were 14-16.

It seems pretty random, but thanks for the advice, I'll try that when I have some more time.

I'm on a Dimension 4700(desktop), Windows XP, and running McAffee Security Center.

ANYWAYS, I've had this problem for maybe around 8 months now and am just deciding to do something about it. A while ago, I installed Everquest: Escape to Norrath. I deleted the files or something, and did not uninstall it properly (I was a computer newb back then). Now, when I try to run certain .exe's it runs the games patcher instead of the application/game I'm trying to use. The game DOES NOT show up in the add/remove programs list, ive searched for files and they are nowhere to be found.
This isn't necessarily spyware, but obviously you guys know a lot about computers so I figured i'd try here anyway.
Help, please.

People hate it because it actually makes you think. Personally TNG is one of my favorite shows.