Merry Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas!! Sorry I've been away but I was a slave to my sketchbook the last few weeks before finals. Anyways, sorry we can't all be together, but I hope you all have a happenin Yule-tide. Below are some downloadable presents for you! click, print, and enjoy!

For Marc, click here, here, and here.

For Katie, click here and here.

For Ryan, click here and here.

Oh, and here is something we can all play together! Just click and make a song!!!

Anyways, hope you guys are well, and I hope to talk to you soon! Merry Christmas!! -Dusty

TunderKaeg

thought it would be appropriate to post some of these

SUPER CREATIVE CHALLENGE!!!

Do something creative with Vikings! Draw a picture, write a poem, make a song, make a craft, paint your face, and POST IT!! Fun for the whole family!

"You don't believe in all this Valhalla stuff, do you?"

Maybe Yummy? Or just old-tasting?

Viking Recipes Here!  Should we try some?
Particularly the beverages??

We tried ancient-recipe Viking coffee in Oslo.  Woa.  Not good.

Words Pillaged from the Vikings

Sorry for using hurtful viking stereotypes there.
but here are some words that we got from the norse!
anger – (ON angr ‘grief’) [1220-1250]
birth – (ON burðr) [1016-1150]
bleak – (ON bleikr ‘pale’) [1250-1300]
bloom – (ON blóm) [1016-1150]
call – (ON kalla) [before 1016]
cast – (ON kasta) [1016-1150]
crawl – (ON krafla) [c.1350]
crook – (ON krókr) [1016-1150]
die – (ON deyja) [1016-1150]
fellow – (ON félagi) [before 1016]
gear – (ON gervi ‘equipment’) [1300-1450]
get – (ON geta) [c.1250]
hit – (ON hitta ‘to come upon’) [1016-1150]
husband – (ON hús ‘house’ and bóndi ‘householder’) [before 1016]
ill – (ON illr) [1016-1150]
kid – (ON kiþ) [1220-1250]
kindle – (ON kynda) [1016-1150]
knife – (ON knífr) [1016-1150]
law – (ON lag ‘law’)
leg – (ON leggr) [1016-1150]
lift – (ON lypta) [1250-1300]
loan – (ON lán) [1016-1150]
loose – (ON lauss) [1300-1450]
low – (ON lágr) [1016-1150]
meek – (ON mjúkr ‘gentle, soft’) [1016-1150]
rag – (ON rögg) [1016-1150]
raise – (ON rísa to rise) [1016-1150]
ransack – (ON rann-saka ‘to search a house’) [1220-1250]
sale – (ON sala) [1016-1150]
scare – (ON skjarr ‘timid’) [1016-1150]
seem – (ON sæma ‘to conform to’) [1250-1300]
skill – (ON skil) [1016-1150]
skin – (ON skinn) [1016-1150]
skirt – (ON skyrt) [after 1450]
sky – (ON skie ‘cloud’) [1220-1250]
slaughter – (ON sláter ‘butcher’s meat’) [1300-1450]
sly – (ON slœgr) [c.1250]
snare – (ON snara) [1016-1150]
take – (ON taka) [1016-1150]
thrive – (ON þrífa ‘to grasp’) [1016-1150]
trust – (ON traust) [c.1250]
ugly – (ON uggr ‘fear’) [1220-1250]
wand – (ON vöndr) [1016-1150]
want – (ON vanta) [1016-1150]
weak – (ON veikr) [1250-1300]
window – (ON vindauga ‘wind eye’) [1220-1250]
wing – (ON vengr) [1016-1150]
wrong – (ON rangr ‘awry, unjust’) [before 1016]

Viking Maps

I'll begin with a prayer.  One that monks said with fervor for a few hundred years:

A fuore Normanorum libera nos, domine! 

(O Lord, deliver us from the fury of the Norsemen!)

Amen.  I am deeply impressed that they ventured down pretty much every river -- deep into the heart of the continent.

And see that litte arrow that continues on past Iceland?...

North America!  Long before Columbus, and WAY faster than any old pilgrim.

Have you heard about the people that rebuilt a replica longboat and attempted to sail to to North America  to prove that it could have been done?  Apparently they made it there in 28 days!

Also, here's a picture of a typical viking settlement according to some expert.  But where are the deadly cone breasts?

Viking Myths (not mythology, but untrue facts)

Feel free to add your own as you find them:

1. Horned Helmets. Apparently there is no evidence of vikings wearing horns on their helmets. Here is the only surviving viking helmet

2. Viking Armies were huge.
Viking armies were in the hundreds at most.

3. Vikings Fought and Pillaged 24-7.
Ill just quote the page i'm reading "Vikings peacefully colonised Iceland, Greenland and many smaller islands. As explorers they crossed the Atlantic and reached America 500 years before Columbus. As international merchants of their time, they also peacefully traded with almost every country of the then known world."
I never really thought of them as merchants.

my source on the above (not exactly an official source, but whatever)
http://www.vikingrune.com/2009/02/top-ten-myths-about-vikings/

I'm reading Michael Chrichton's "Eaters of the Dead" right now,

so I'm glad we're talking about Vikings. This video pretty much sums up the book.

Vikings!

Alright, lets just get the ball rolling. For some reason this is just the subject I imagined starting with, so here it goes. Let's talk about vikings!

Initiating hive mind...

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