The Viking ship LOFOTIR

This Viking ship is based upon the Gokstad Viking ship that was found outside Sandefjord in Vestfold.
Now Lofotir is ready to sail the high seas, and again go Viking.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Viking
• ship
• Longboat
• langskip
• Gokstad
• Lofotir
• Sandefjord
• Lofoten
• Norway

[Zealotuss]

=O omg that was great!!! but wait a moment... that means the cool norwegian vikings are reay to seal and ride scotland and england ahain? =O if you do please take me back with you to norway =)

i love Norway

[ygdrasil21]

We dont call it raid any more we call it withdraws. And the monasteries and castles has been replaced with Bank of England.. But we can always take with us some nice looking British girls..

[Metalforever132]

@Cromag3 Cool, thanks! Yeah, it sounds a lot like the accents from the middle of Sweden.

[Cromag3]

@Metalforever132 That is a North Norwegian accent. I guess it's the tone of the accent which some times makes it sound like Swedish.

[alarik36]

@ooradska1 From the land of ice and snow, where it´s hot, and where you get blown..

[alarik36]

@ProudOfNormandy Thanks for the answer! Quite a lot of skånish people have represented Sweden in sports. At ladies fotballchampionship recently. Caroline Seger, Therese Sjögran and Nilla Fischer are skånish. watch?v=KCK5tQWCv5k&feature=fv­st Other reputated people come from here. expressen.se/noje/extra/1.1432­636/gynning-festar-med-hells-a­ngels-ex-president And there is also a lot of culture. watch?v=shjD5hhC1aI&feature=re­lated

[ProudOfNormandy]

@alarik36 I'm from Normandy and I'm 187cm, it's tall there but not gigantic. I would say Norman men are about 180cm women quite shorter. We have all kind of tipes but mostly we are blue eyed with brown-blondish hair. Dark and blond hair are common.

I put a photo of me visiting Iceland with my friend and his wife (who are also from Normandy) on my background for you to see. Also check this link

watch?v=EjmhbeNhCgE

A group in Normandy teaching Norman kids about their Viking ancestors

[alarik36]

@ProudOfNormandy Here is a presentation on the skånish flag dayin summer 2010. The sings in skånish. Which is probably similar to what it sounded like in the viking-age. The skånish and bornholmians were probably called 'halfdanes', and it was also name.. watch?v=4uIq0jY7stw

[alarik36]

@ProudOfNormandy In Normandy there are still hundreds of place names with Nordic and Scanian ties which Dalbec, Runitot and Bourguebu (Borgeby) and at least six La Londe (of the grove, sacrificial grove. I come from Lund in Skåne) to say nothing of Yvetot, Ivetofta as they say back home in Skåne. Houlbec of Danish Holbæk. Maouve must mean seagull. In gotlandic and icelandic they still say mav and mavar in plural..I wonder, is there a site you can see what normands look like?

[alarik36]

@MrLebowski2 Hail and thanks!

[alarik36]

@morespamforya I took a spear in the arm..nasty! But I have actually sailed and rowed a ship like that based in Blomberg in Väner lake, in the middle of gepidic and possibly also vandalic homeland, called Sigrid Storråda..

[ProudOfNormandy]

@alarik36

Well we say dalle instead of vallée and acre instead of champ who are I think of norse origins. We have place names like Dieppedalle. In fact a very large part of the place names in Normandy have Scandinavian origins. We say Maouve for a bird called mouette in French etc.

You can google "Norman place names" and see and also google "Norman language".

We have quite a strong Scandinavian heritage mixed with our Gallic (Celtic) Roman and Frankish ones creating Norman culture.