[Ansteorra] RE: Pirates in Period

Alden Drake alden_drake at sbcglobal.net
Fri Sep 9 20:19:23 PDT 2005



--- Marc Carlson <marccarlson20 at hotmail.com> wrote:
I still maintain that "Viking" 
> -may- have been a verb in Old Norse meaning "going on a road trip and coming 
> back with more stuff than you left with," while in English it was a noun 
> meaning "bloodthirsty lunatics with axes".

Most people I know would call "going on a road trip and coming back with more stuff than you left
with" - going on a holiday. :)

Alden Drake



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