Danes sorry for Viking invasion

[Aptrgangr]

Danes sorry for Viking invasion

The Danish government has expressed regret over the Viking invasion of Ireland more than 1,000 years ago.


The vessel will go on display this month at Dublin's National Museum

The apologetic gesture came as a replica Norse warrior ship arrived in Dublin after a voyage across the North Sea.
Danish Culture Minister Brian Mikkelson said his country was proud of the ship, Havhingsten (The Sea Stallion).
"But we are not proud of the damages to the people of Ireland that followed in the footsteps of the Vikings," he said.
"But the warmth and friendliness with which you greet us today and the Viking ship show us that, luckily, it has all been forgiven."

The replica long boat - the largest in the world - is a reconstruction of the Skuldelev 2 built in Dublin in 1042 and believed to have sunk in the Roskilde Fjord 30 years later.
Archaeologists traced the wood used in the original to trees felled in Glendalough in County Wicklow, south of Dublin.
The crew of 65 sailed the replica vessel as part of an archaeological experiment.

'Go on display'

Diarmuid Murphy from Bantry in County Cork - one of only two Irish sailors on board - said he almost gave up at the outset.
"About 18 hours into it, I was just so cold and wet and I said there's no way I'll do this," he said.
Despite a diet of dried food and sleeping in the cold, cramped and wet conditions of an open boat he was glad to see the port of the Irish capital.
"It was fairly emotional all right, it was very hard to keep the tears back," he said.
Researchers will analyse the data that was gathered during the voyage from an onboard computer and film.
The vessel will go on display this month at Dublin's National Museum until next year when a crew, captained by Carsten Hvid, will make the return voyage home.
A project to reconstruct her was launched in Denmark in 2004 with Her Majesty Queen Margrethe christening her "Havhingsten fra Glendalough" (The Sea Stallion from Glendalough) in recognition of the original's Irish beginnings.

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1,000 years; It was about time to apologize!
- kidding, this liberal Christian compassion goes on my nerves; the Danish minister rather should apologize to his people and send the Muslim and negro invaders home.

[Strengthandhonour]

don't worry, expect an apology from Greece for the conquest of Alexander and one from Italy for the one of Julius Caesar. Oh and wait for the apology from the German government to Italy for the invasion of Barbarossa.

[Arthur Gordon Pym]

This is simply ridiculous.

[Errigal]

Originally Posted by Aptrgangr

1,000 years; It was about time to apologize!
- kidding, this liberal Christian compassion goes on my nerves; the Danish minister rather should apologize to his people and send the Muslim and negro invaders home.

This does come from a perverted version of Christianity; an eagerness to confess to sins one has not even committed. Some cultures have ancestor worship as part of their religion, we have ancestor denigration.

[Sergius]

Originally Posted by Plethon

This is simply ridiculous.

It's what's IN right now.

Brian Mikkelsen is a huge jerk, by the way. He is the Minister of Culture, officially, but around here we just call him the Minister of Sports. He has inherited a lot of money and very little intellect. His goofy smile says it all. A simple-minded man with too much power.

[Arthur Gordon Pym]

Originally Posted by Ljubomir

It's what's IN right now.

Brian Mikkelsen is a huge jerk, by the way. He is the Minister of Culture, officially, but around here we just call him the Minister of Sports. He has inherited a lot of money and very little intellect. His goofy smile says it all. A simple-minded man with too much power.

Hahaha..and it can often be heard that sons of rich families, who also happen to graduate at universtities, are the bearers of progress and the intellectual cream of a society. Reality seems to deny this popularly held belief more than often.

[Berrocscir]

Personally, I'm still awaiting reparations from the Danes who sacked Wessex. Oh, and then I can donate it to the Bythonics.

What utter nonsense, i 've heared it all now.