Viking Picture Spam
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curiouswombatKatherine and I both took our cameras when we went to Peel on Sunday to watch the Vikings! re-enactment. Her pictures, as usual, came out better than mine, and so behind the cut you will find a selection of her photos - all kudos to the daughter!!
The first two show some of the early clashes between the locals and the invaders - you can see a long-ship or two in the sea behind them. THe loclas would have been dressed and armed in a very similar way to the raiders.
After a number of clashes the battles moved up towards the stockade.
As the defenders began to lose, even the women joined in the defence - this was quite normal - note the middle-aged lady who has grabbed a helmet and put it on under her shawl, and is wielding a sword with some expertise!
This final shot shows some of the participants marching back along the beach - with Peel Castle as a backdrop
Today, although it was our National Day, where all the Laws have to be read out on Tynwald Hill (yes - genuine outdoors type hill) and dancing, carousing, and this year more fighting vikings, would all be in the environs, we went nowhere near any of it. And they will all have got VERY WET!! D-d and I went to a couple of UK shops in Douglas, who don't get the day off, and bought a new lamp, duvet, bedding, etc. for the little bedroom, because, rejoice! rejoice! the decorator has started the redecorating! Couldn't get new carpet or bed organised because they will both come from local suppliers, who were all closed today.
And for those of you who are following it, the next chapter of Ten Years After will be up tomorrow.
The first two show some of the early clashes between the locals and the invaders - you can see a long-ship or two in the sea behind them. THe loclas would have been dressed and armed in a very similar way to the raiders.
After a number of clashes the battles moved up towards the stockade.
As the defenders began to lose, even the women joined in the defence - this was quite normal - note the middle-aged lady who has grabbed a helmet and put it on under her shawl, and is wielding a sword with some expertise!
This final shot shows some of the participants marching back along the beach - with Peel Castle as a backdrop
Today, although it was our National Day, where all the Laws have to be read out on Tynwald Hill (yes - genuine outdoors type hill) and dancing, carousing, and this year more fighting vikings, would all be in the environs, we went nowhere near any of it. And they will all have got VERY WET!! D-d and I went to a couple of UK shops in Douglas, who don't get the day off, and bought a new lamp, duvet, bedding, etc. for the little bedroom, because, rejoice! rejoice! the decorator has started the redecorating! Couldn't get new carpet or bed organised because they will both come from local suppliers, who were all closed today.
And for those of you who are following it, the next chapter of Ten Years After will be up tomorrow.
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Date: 05/07/2005 04:15 pm (UTC)You don't have a close-quote at the end of the alt text on this line:
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And I'm not sure you need a forward slash at the end of the line after the alt text, either (it shows up on a few of the links, but not all of them). Hope that helps!
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Date: 05/07/2005 04:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 05/07/2005 04:36 pm (UTC)The event looks like great deal of fun! Thanks for sharing the pics!!
The closest thing we have to that around here is when the pirates (http://www.seafair.com/x57.asp) storm the beach during SeaFair. Which, as you can see, isn't really close at all. ;-)
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Date: 05/07/2005 10:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 05/07/2005 04:55 pm (UTC)But on second glance it looks very interesting, with well-made costumes and props. It reminds me a lot of our Civil War reenactors, who are sticklers for historical detail. (You can usually spot men who are into reneenactments, even if you just encounter them in the grocery store when they're in 21st century clothes. They are the only ones who grow mutton-chop whiskers these days.)
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Date: 05/07/2005 05:18 pm (UTC)Sounds like you had a hoot!
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Date: 05/07/2005 06:26 pm (UTC)This was a re-enactment of one Viking Chief re-establishing his claim to be Lord of Mann!
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Date: 05/07/2005 06:12 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 05/07/2005 06:16 pm (UTC)I await with anticipation!!
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Date: 05/07/2005 06:29 pm (UTC)Unfortunately, the pics of our best man putting black face paint on his thighs to play a drow because his homemade leather pants always split are still at the in-laws I think (or possibly in hubby's "filing" system which is no system at all).
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Date: 05/07/2005 06:32 pm (UTC)Shame!! I kind of feel that if you do post any of them we'll go - 'OH LOOK! It's so&so!!'
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Date: 05/07/2005 06:38 pm (UTC)BTW Very classy new icon for 10 Years After! You managed to find a piccie of Trachtenberg where she wasn't trying far too desperately to look older than she was.
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Date: 05/07/2005 06:56 pm (UTC)No, you're all right!!
Icon was made for me by
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Date: 05/07/2005 05:51 pm (UTC)Disclaimer: Sorry,this was not meant to insult Vikings who may be lurking.
Thank you also, for posting on my LJ, because I've now been reading your story, and really enjoying it.
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Date: 05/07/2005 06:19 pm (UTC)Not silly at all! Very Authentic! Very tempted to join up myself - I'd be like the lady with the helmet under her shawl, and the big sword!
And Vikings shouldn't BE lurking - so if they are it would just serve them right!!
Also thank you so much for the compliment on Ten Years After. I don't think I'll be able to manage such a grand saga as yourself though.
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Date: 05/07/2005 07:42 pm (UTC)Stealth Viking.....must think about that!
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Date: 05/07/2005 11:21 pm (UTC)Re: ...
Date: 05/07/2005 11:45 pm (UTC)Of course they are, aren't they? Personally I thought they looked just fine! Actually all the jewellery and cloak pins etc. were absolutely right as well - they were very careful to be correct.
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Date: 05/07/2005 07:02 pm (UTC)You are right about the shields and banners - what impressed me most is the number of shields that looked very well used, as I'm sure the originals would have been. The banners are pretty authentic - they used them to keep their troops together, as both sides would be dressed pretty much the same, and armies were big enough for you to not neccesarily know everyone on your own side, but you could learn which banners were on oyur team pretty easily!
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Date: 05/07/2005 07:55 pm (UTC)Historically there were major Viking kingdoms based in Dublin, and in the Northern Isles of Scotland. The Isle-of-Man was a central point between the two, and at various times gave allegiance to one or the other - the particular battle being re-enacted was a Scottish based over-lord re-estabishing his rights.
Our viking heritage is important to us, for example today is Tynwald Day - which is where all the laws must be read out in English and Manx on the meeting hill - Tynwald as in 'Thing', 'Althing' etc. Our Tynwald has continued in one way or another since 979, making it one of the oldest parliaments in the world. A lot of our place names are still based on the language of the vikings - mostly Norwegian ones I think, for example Laxey - Salmon river village - and of course Lax is still salmon, as you know better than me!
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Date: 05/07/2005 09:20 pm (UTC)Our Bishop's title is still Bishop of 'Sodor and Mann' - where Sodor is a corruption of Sudreys - the Southern Isles - the Southern Hebrides.
Our political system is still based on the old Sheadings as well - the seven divisions from which the members of the Ting were drawn.
Re Laxey - I think actually it may be one of the places where the name is a mixture of Norse and Gaelic - Laxaa is probably the older spelling, I just knew Lax from gravadlax!! And that Laxey is name after its salmon river.
We have lots of places that end in 'by' which, if my memory of early history lessons is right, comes from the Norse for a farm(?) - places such as Crosby, Colby, Kirkby, Dalby etc. But we also have a lot of places beginning 'balla' which is the gaelic for the same thing. And the Norse names still show up in surnames, for example Corkill - the C is the Manx way of denoting son of, from Mac - so Corkill is C'Thorkill, and so on.
Here endeth the history lesson!!
S2C is right - you'd get a really good idea of the history from The Cloak of Mist - as well as a very, very good read. And it's not THAT long - probably take under an hour.
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Date: 05/07/2005 10:40 pm (UTC)For a very brief look at a potted history you could look at http://www.gov.im/mnh/heritage/museums/manannan.xml
Just because it has a good picture of Odin's Raven - now a display, but the longship built to sail the Viking route for our millenium in 1979.
Cloak of Mist is Eight Chapters long - maybe just over an hour, depending on reading speed I guess, but not the sort of thing that'll take a week anyway!!
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Date: 05/07/2005 09:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 05/07/2005 07:53 pm (UTC)Very much looking forward to the next TYA instalment, especially given Speaker's teaser earlier!
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Date: 05/07/2005 07:58 pm (UTC)Next TYA chapter tomorrow - done enough coding putting the pictures up!!
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Date: 05/07/2005 08:36 pm (UTC)I'm looking forward to tomorrow and more fic - you are such a talented household!
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