Re: The Need for Debate

On Dec 7, 2004, at 9:36 AM, Ray Brown wrote:
> ...which as you say is rather one-sided and negative. The same with the
> Vikings - ask most people about Vikings and you will told about helmets
> with horns and pillaging & raping. In fact AFAIK there is no evidence
> for
> horned helmets - it is IIRC due to a fanciful illustration in some
> Victorian history book - and they did actually settle and develop quite
> civilized communities, for example, at Jorvik (York), in Iceland &
> elsewhere,
York comes from Norse "Jorvik"?  I thought it came from Latin
"Eboricum" or something like that...


-Stephen (Steg)
  "oy is just yo backwards"

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