I'm pleased to say that at least two people have found this blog. But there's a downside. I'm going to have to straighten up. Guests might now start dropping in at any moment.
A week or two ago I asked a friend of mine, a guy whose knowledge of history deeply impresses me (which is saying something) how much he knew about Scandinavian history. This was his response almost verbatim: "Some people lived in the cold, then they were Vikings, then Lutherans, then made furniture." A brilliant summation on the spur! Well done!
I was at Alki beach with another friend of mine recently, on a blustery freezing Sunday. The water and weather brought the Vikings to my mind. I confessed that the more Viking history I read, the more like I feel I owe the Irish reparations. I'm half Norwegian: it was the Norwegian Vikings who especially despoiled Ireland, and they did it for a very, very long time.
She let me buy her a Guiness and we called it even.
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