Map for where we'll be meeting:
2016-03-05 13:29:02
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SAVE THE DATE: 6th Annual VIKING-BIKING RIDE & POTLUCK – 3/19 Saturday
Is that time of the year again!
Different year, same ride with hopefully even more fun!
*Ride 8-10 flat miles
*Fundraiser for the Greater Community Food Bank
*Potluck to follow afterwards at the Southside Riverview Park : BRING SOME FOOD TO SHARE! OR CASH SO WE CAN STOP BY A GROCERY STORE ON THE WAY
*Viking attire always welcome!
For more information on the ride, please go to FB at this link:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1673938936203295/1675541676043021/
2016-03-05 13:27:13
This is just 4 days away! Break out the helmet horns!
2016-03-15 19:26:41
BUMP!
2016-03-18 13:22:50
Awesome as ever.... I'm going to take a nap now.
Fire!!!!!!
2016-03-19 18:54:00
Relevant documentary, vikings in North America:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/vikings-unearthed.html
2016-04-09 10:19:25
Just keeping this in mind for next Spring.
Half of Viking warriors were female
2016-10-30 21:15:04
Sorry, that one's long been debunked: http://www.missedinhistory.com/blogs/raining-on-your-parade-about-those-women-viking-warriors.htm
(the original story is two years old--though based on a paper from five years ago.)
(Sadly, the horned helmets are apparently also a myth, at least as far as the Vikings are concerned, though tbh an entertaining one.)
2016-11-03 14:23:13