One of the rare bits of common ground: both cultures appreciated skalds/bards.
>> the farmer settled and although never married had four common-law wives, one of which got brought home by the third viking brother.. who as far as anyone knows had as many as half a dozen common law wives [read, captives] but kept four into his old age. [he died at well over eighty.] <<
Now that is a damn successful viking. Almost all of them died in violence ... which, technically in that religion, is preferred over dying in bed.
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One of the rare bits of common ground: both cultures appreciated skalds/bards.
>> the farmer settled and although never married had four common-law wives, one of which got brought home by the third viking brother.. who as far as anyone knows had as many as half a dozen common law wives [read, captives] but kept four into his old age. [he died at well over eighty.] <<
Now that is a damn successful viking. Almost all of them died in violence ... which, technically in that religion, is preferred over dying in bed.