How do they know who the crew were? Yes they could have been Svea, people went back and forth between England and the ancestral homelands. The East Anglian king could have maintained a Svea boat crew… (View Post)

Raedwald (if it was he) was an English king. His kin had come here from Sweden a hundred or so years earlier along with the ancestors of other English kings, from lower Saxony, Angeln and Jutland but… (View Post)

The Swedes like to believe that Swedish vikings were peaceful chaps, just going to Novgorod to trade and found the Rus state. But there is plenty of evidence that Swedes took part in general Viking-i… (View Post)

So do you believe that it is OK for Scottish cricket to be racist, or do you just believe it doesn't exist? By your own argument your failure to talk about it means that you condone it. (View Post)

That's clearly anti-English racism. I might as well accuse the the Scots of being ungenerous with their money. The SOP in the Civil Service is of course, find the most junior person involved and scap… (View Post)