unreasonable Posted August 30, 2017 Posted August 30, 2017 Reading this thread has been a huge eye opener for me. The parachute killing story was interesting as such but the real takeaway from this historical anecdote has been the discussion it sparked and how it was interpreted even with the benefit of more than 70 years hindsight: Never expected to see some people post what they did here. Sadly it seems there is still a huge need to come to terms with your history in some quarters. In that vein as a Swede, I want to set the historic record straight and say that we, as a gentle Nordic farming and trading society never embarked on any rapes and pillages in England. Sadly, there are however some English history books that portray our peace loving ancestors as some sort of bloodthirsty savages which is of course totally false and blatant Anglo-Saxon propaganda. We British know perfectly well that it was those evil Danes, Finkeren's mob, plus a few Norwegians in Scotland. They only got away with it because Ethelred was Unready, as you would know if you had read the only world history book worth reading, "1066 and all that". Your lot founded Russia instead.
707shap_Srbin Posted August 30, 2017 Posted August 30, 2017 Yah... Drots (sw.) > Ruotsi (fi.) > Rus' (rus).
Holtzauge Posted August 30, 2017 Posted August 30, 2017 <snip>Your lot founded Russia instead. You just had to rub it in didn't you?
TP_Silk Posted September 1, 2017 Posted September 1, 2017 This thread has now been going for nearly a month and I still can't read the title without thinking of this classic gem
SYN_Haashashin Posted September 3, 2017 Posted September 3, 2017 Ok, it seems the topic just run its course to an end huh...locked.
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