SC - What is "period"?--off topic

[Par Leijonhufvud]

On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Sue Clemenger wrote:

> Now I _know_ that this if off-topic, but I can't help it....<sheepish grin> How
> could people _possibly_ think Vikings weren't "period to Western culture?"
> Generations of my western european (Irish, French, English) ancestors would have
> certainly disagreed!

I suppose that you can actually make a reasonable argument that the
Vikings were too different from the mainstream feudal culture to fit in
comfortably. OTOH, we *never* got truly feodalized...

/UlfR

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Par Leijonhufvud                                      parlei at algonet.se
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