Author Topic: 1,000-YEAR-OLD MASSACRE UNCOVERED IN ENGLAND (Read 6456 times)

roo_ster · « **on:** August 17, 2012, 11:16:57 AM »

Hey Viking, here's a heads-up!

http://news.discovery.com/history/the-1000-year-old--massacre-uncovered-in-england.html?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

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A macabre and forgotten episode from the Dark Ages has been uncovered by British researchers after they examined dozens of beheaded skeletons.

Mystery surrounded the identity of the victims since they were discovered by accident last June near Weymouth, Dorset, England, when workers at a 2012 building site, stumbled across a burial pit.

The grave contained a mass of bones and 51 skulls neatly stacked in a pile.

Scientific tests have now revealed that the individuals, all males mostly in their late teens or early 20s, were likely Viking raiders who were brutally executed 1,000 years ago.

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"It was not a straight one slice and head off. They were all hacked at around the head and jaw. It doesn't look like they were very willing or the executioners very skilled," Ceri Boston, an expert in ancient bones who examined the remains, told the "London Times."

Zeppelin didn't sing about this possibility...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnpaPGHFsL4

SADShooter · « **Reply #1 on:** August 17, 2012, 11:32:37 AM »

So, the article suggests the cuts weren't made at or by the right Angles.

TommyGunn · « **Reply #2 on:** August 17, 2012, 11:48:52 AM »

Quote from: SADShooter on August 17, 2012, 11:32:37 AM

So, the article suggests the cuts weren't made at or by the right Angles.

We need a higher class of comedians at APS. We really do.

Fitz · « **Reply #3 on:** August 17, 2012, 11:50:35 AM »

Quote from: TommyGunn on August 17, 2012, 11:48:52 AM

We need a higher class of comedians at APS. We really do.

He's the comedian we need, not the one we deserve!

Fly320s · « **Reply #4 on:** August 17, 2012, 12:25:24 PM »

Quote from: TommyGunn on August 17, 2012, 11:48:52 AM

We need a higher class of comedians at APS. We really do.

Yes, but it is nothing to lose your head about.

roo_ster · « **Reply #5 on:** August 17, 2012, 12:27:37 PM »

Yeah, why worry about ineffectual hacks?

TommyGunn · « **Reply #6 on:** August 17, 2012, 12:36:56 PM »

Quote from: Fly320s on August 17, 2012, 12:25:24 PM

Yes, but it is nothing to lose your head about.

ANOTHER wiseacre!!!!!!!

Quote from: roo_ster on August 17, 2012, 12:27:37 PM

Yeah, why worry about ineffectual hacks?

AND ANOTHER!!!!

SADShooter · « **Reply #7 on:** August 17, 2012, 12:39:01 PM »

TG, you may be right, but your cutting commentary won't bury my wrong-headed humor.

TommyGunn · « **Reply #8 on:** August 17, 2012, 12:40:16 PM »

You're killing me!

AJ Dual · « **Reply #9 on:** August 17, 2012, 12:46:44 PM »

A Viking just won't quit until he's ahead.

Of course, the history of the region is also full of Saxon violence.

SADShooter · « **Reply #10 on:** August 17, 2012, 12:49:06 PM »

Quote from: AJ Dual on August 17, 2012, 12:46:44 PM

A Viking just won't quit until he's ahead.

Of course, the history of the region is also full of Saxon violence.

That's the pun I was struggling to find for the Saxon connection. Well done.

seeker_two · « **Reply #11 on:** August 17, 2012, 01:59:30 PM »

Violence seems to be problem among the Jutes of England

Scout26 · « **Reply #12 on:** August 17, 2012, 02:17:02 PM »

Viking, maybe you can sue Britain on behalf of your ancestors....

J.J. · « **Reply #13 on:** August 17, 2012, 02:33:31 PM »

Its too soon to be making these type of comments... Have some respect guys.

Those poor respectable Vikings couldn't have done anything to deserve that kind of Barbery.

(best I could do. Everyone else was ahead of me with the good jokes)

AJ Dual · « **Reply #14 on:** August 17, 2012, 02:42:29 PM »

Quote from: J.J. on August 17, 2012, 02:33:31 PM

Its too soon to be making these type of comments... Have some respect guys.

Those poor respectable Vikings couldn't have done anything to deserve that kind of Barbery.

(best I could do. Everyone else was ahead of me with the good jokes)

DUDE! We missed you!

roo_ster · « **Reply #15 on:** August 17, 2012, 02:43:29 PM »

Quote from: AJ Dual on August 17, 2012, 02:42:29 PM

DUDE! We missed you!

He was busy eating kittens.

J.J. · « **Reply #16 on:** August 17, 2012, 03:02:47 PM »

Not trying to hijack, or thread drift.

I have been lurking and deleting the occasional spambot and reading up on everyone else. Just in the backseat for a long time. My life got real hectic for a while. Had some rough patches. It was just easier to fade to the background...I have been here a minimum of once a week reading though.

I just couldn't resist this thread.

Tallpine · « **Reply #17 on:** August 17, 2012, 03:38:24 PM »

Kipling wrote all about this ...

If you can keep your head while all those about you are losing theirs ...

Viking · « **Reply #18 on:** August 17, 2012, 05:51:00 PM »

I'm reminded of a scene from the comic book version of RÃ¶de Orm (don't remember if this was in the book as well) when a group of Viking raiders had been caught by the raidees, and had been lined up to be executed by having their heads chopped off. One of the vikings asked the executioner to avoid cutting his nice braided hair when he swung the sword, so the executioner had one of his friends holding the guy's braided hair out of the way while he swung...only that the guy with the braids yanked his head backwards, causing the hair-holder to get his arms under the blade. Ooops

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Phyphor · « **Reply #19 on:** August 17, 2012, 06:51:43 PM »

I'm getting really hacked off at all the crappy jokes around here. Really not Viking it.

seeker_two · « **Reply #20 on:** August 17, 2012, 09:56:38 PM »

Quote from: Phyphor on August 17, 2012, 06:51:43 PM

I'm getting really hacked off at all the crappy jokes around here. Really not Viking it.

Offended by this....I didn't think you had the gaul....

LadySmith · « **Reply #21 on:** August 17, 2012, 10:28:08 PM »

This thread...

And it is nice "seeing" you again, J.J.

280plus · « **Reply #22 on:** August 18, 2012, 05:57:14 AM »

Quote from: LadySmith on August 17, 2012, 10:28:08 PM

This thread...

Yea, I'm laughing my head off too.

grampster · « **Reply #23 on:** August 18, 2012, 08:50:47 AM »

This thread will be heading down the drain soon.

K Frame · « **Reply #24 on:** August 18, 2012, 09:01:49 AM »

You can Pict your nose, you can Pict your friends, but you can't Pict the people who post in your threads.

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Author Topic: 1,000-YEAR-OLD MASSACRE UNCOVERED IN ENGLAND (Read 6456 times)