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- From: Suze.Hammond@f56.n105.z1.fidonet.org (Suze Hammond)
- Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
- Subject: Re: Heraldic questions...
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- Date: 2 Jan 93 21:35:00 GMT
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- DO> From: doconnor@sedona.intel.com (Dennis O'Connor)
- DO> Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
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- DO> Tim@f4229.n124.z1.fidonet.org (Tim) writes:
- DO> ] Hans Rancke wrote:
- ] > I'd very much like to know what culture you define medieval
- ] > Scandinavia to be part of.
- DO> ]
- DO> ] Barbarian fringe, like the Arabs and the Slavs
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- ] HR> Germany and Scandinavia were very much part of western culture.
- DO> ]
- DO> ] Only in the same way that the Mongols were very much a part of
- DO> Asian ] culture.
- DO>
- DO> Considering they ruled most of it, I don't see your point. There's a
- DO> lot more to Mongols than you suspect, I think, or you wouldn't say
- DO> this.
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- And the same could be said for the Norse, since the Normans were of *recent*
- Norse extraction when they became the rulers of not just the area Tadhg
- idolizes, plus everything down to a good-sized chunk of Mediterranian Africa.
-
- Perhaps he has decided that despite being rulers of the area, they had no
- influence on it? Or that moving to France for a generation or so somehow
- removes them from being of Norse extraction?
-
- Dunno about that. They sure had no trouble remembering how the sail those
- nasty longships, and invade... and put an axe up your multi-great grandpap's
- nose... I don't imagine the Saxons thought them all that "reformed" by their
- stay in France. :-)
-
- Moreach
- Skeptic
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-
-
- ... Catch the Blue Wave!
-