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Watching Viking Apocalypse. Quite interesting. Mass mass grave of people was dug up who turned out to be beheaded Vikings.

I find it totally interesting how, in the UK, there are archives that go back that far.

Wish we knew more about what happened way back when and particularly about the Vikings. Would love to know what a typical day back then looked like. Must have been definitely hard hard living.


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LLL, in the city of York we have the ‘Jorvic’ Centre (Viking name for the city). It is underground and is part of an excavated Viking town although it is only the lower wooden wattle frames of the houses that remain that were preserved in mud and debris. From this they have reconstructed a typical village complete with sights, sounds and SMELLS. The tour is on a ride that takes you around and as you pass places like the fish market you hear the sounds of Vikings speaking in their native tongue and the smell of fish wood smoke and other nasty niffs. As you pass a latrine you hear the grunts of someone sitting there and the smells to go with it, all very realistic. York of course has a lot of history beneath the streets including the later Roman occupation.

Look at the top of this page for more information about Jorvic
https://www.jorvikvikingcentre.co.uk/
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You've jogged a memory Horus. My DH and I stayed in York one summer while he learned to fly in the Jorvik hot air balloon.
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From the URL it looks like a really interesting place. Would love to see it - sights, sounds, smells and all :)
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Lots of things to see and do in York, as MD has already said it is a very nice place to stay, lots of history. You can even visit D.ick Turpin's prison cell where he was held after his epic ride from London to York on Black Bess.

TURPIN had his Black Bess, and she carried him well,
As fame with her loud-breathing trumpet will tell;
She knew not the lash, and she suffered no spur;
A bold rider was all that was needed by her.
That rider grew pallid and cautious with fear,
There was danger around him and death in the rear;
But he mocked at the legion of foes on his track,
When he found himself firm on his bonnie steed's back.

She carried him on as no steed did before,
She travelled as courser will never do more;
Bounding on like the wild deer, she scarce left a trace,
On the road or the turf, of her antelope pace.
The pistol was levelled, what was it to D.ick?
The shot might be rapid, but Bess was as quick:
"Ha! Ha!" shouted Turpin, "a horse and a man
Are fair marks for your bullets to reach, if they can."

The mountain was high, and the valley was deep;
She sprang up the hill and she flew down the steep;
She came to the waste, rough with furrow and weed,
But the brushwood and gap were no checks to her speed.
She dashed through the stream and she climbed the broad bank,
With no word to urge forward, no heel to her flank;
The gate with its padlock might stand in her way;
It took more than five bars to keep Black Bess at bay.

She kept her career up for many a league,
With no slackening of pace and no sign of fatigue;
Right onward she went till she staggered and dropped;
But her limbs only failed when her heart-pulse had stopped.
Her dare-devil rider lived on for a while,
And told of her work with a triumphing smile:
And the fame of D.ick Turpin had been something less
If he'd ne'er rode to York on his bonnie Black Bess


I had to put a full stop in the name D.ick to get it past the word censor. :lol: :lol:
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I remember that poem from either grade school or high school. I believe we had to memorize part of it and write about it. Was an exciting one :)
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