SV: [ejlist] Siebzig Verweht I - Iceland

["Bertil Häggman" <bertil.haggman@helsingborg.se>]

The panic and the terror the Vikings spread wherever they landed and attacked 
was IMHO (Bertil, you direct descendant of Hägar & Co, please correct me if I'm 
wrong!) to the effectiveness of their methods of combat (including going 
berserk) and of pillaging and slaughtering, also due to their unheard-of 
mobility and the scarcity of reliable news about them and their whereabouts. 
When EJ writes that it was rather due to "gespeicherte mythische extremely 
important but it leaves me emptyhanded… Günter Rebing

Guenther,

No, no icecream relation there. Probably named
after Hagar the Viking. The pillaging, slaughter and
berserk activities were to a great extent an invention
by the Catholic church chroniclers. The Vikings were
builders of a number of states and of course after
a time were influence by their surroundings in the
new settlements.

Juengerian greetings