01-23-2007, 03:42 PM
Quote:In fact it is quite resonably for this people to take to the sea. The inland of scandinavia was Taiga forrest. Not fun to get into. Not even today. It´s huge! Goes on for hundreds of hundreds of miles. And the connection to neighbours where quite often only by sea. That´s why Finland and Sweden have more in common in many ways than Sweden and Norway.
Most of the immigrants to Britain during the 5th and 6th c. are reckoned to have come from Denmark, Northern Germany and The Netherlands. Quite a different landscape from taiga forests.
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
