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Date: 25 Feb 2003 22:40:55 GMT
From: davehinznopsamcop.net
Subject: Re: Saab 9-5, Volvo V60, or Audi A6


Someone who looks an awful lot like MeatballTurbo <carl.robsonnopsamcing-czechs.com> wrote: > In article <b3dukl$1kh0g8$4nopsam34476.news.dfncis.de>, > davehinznopsamcop.net says... >> >> Ah, but the Normans were vikings 2 or 3 generations removed, so I'd >> submit that it's the opposite of "watering down". > never thought about it like that. Even the word "Normans" is a corruption of "Norse men", I've read. >> It would have been interesting if, in 1066, the Vikings from the north >> and the Vikings from the south had had their dates better coordinated. >> (Stamford Bridge / Hastings). > How different would the UK have been? Well, we'd be conversin in Norwegian right now, for starters, I should think. The jury system probably would have taken hold several hundred years earlier, (see Althing), and, hm. Interesting question. Dave "Maybe we can pict this topic up again" Hinz

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