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unusual facts about ''The Viking''



SS Viking

The SS Viking was a ship used by the film producer Varick Frissell in the making of the 1931 film The Viking.


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2001 Minnesota Vikings season

After the disappointing season, the Vikings bought out the contract of Dennis Green, who had become a polarizing force in the Viking fan base despite his successful coaching tenure with the team.

Andrew M. Allen

Andrew Michael Allen was born on 4 August 1955 in Richboro, Pennsylvania He graduated from Archbishop Wood Catholic High School in 1973, following an education at Richboro Junior High currently Richboro Middle School, and was interviewed in 2003 for the school's newspaper, The Viking Voice.

ASL Viking

Due to a lack of any commercial success Barber wound up the Aerial Syndicate in April 1912, most of its assets being acquired by Frederick Handley Page, and the Viking was the last of Barber's aircraft designs to be constructed.

Aton Impulse Viking 2992

The Viking 2992 is an advanced all-terrain amphibious vehicle developed by Aton Impulse, a Russian manufacturer of amphibious vehicles.

Bardy, Poland

For the Viking Age settlement that has been excavated in the vicinity, see Bardy-Świelubie.

Cape Gelidonya

This was one the first projects that led to the development of the field of nautical archaeology, along with the excavation of the Viking Skuldelev ships at Roskilde in 1962, and the discovery and raising of the Swedish warship the Vasa in 1961.

Caton with Littledale

Geoffrey Hodgson (2008) argues that the Viking invasion of the area accounts for the relatively high frequency of the Hodgson surname in Caton and elsewhere in Lonsdale.

Emma Sansom High School

The outstanding band, under the direction of Billy "Rip" Reagan, his son Steve Reagan, Boyd McKeown, Pat Morrow, Russ Waits and others (all former ESHS band members themselves) played for many events such as the Mardi Gras, New Orleans Saints football games as well as performing at the Viking football games, and events at the Talladega Superspeedway race track and many other national events.

Grob G103a Twin II

The Royal Air Force acquired 100 Acros (known as the Viking TX.1) for its Air Cadet training program.

Hagbard Celine

A Discordian anarchist, he fights the Illuminati from a golden submarine, the Leif Ericson (named after the Viking explorer Leif Ericson) The Leif Ericson was supposedly designed and built by himself, stolen from the United States Navy, or a gift from the Mafia.

Harald Klak

The book "An Introduction to the Viking History of Western Europe, Viking Antiquities in Great Britain and Ireland" (1940) by Haakon Shetelig, presented the theory that Louis was laying the groundwork for a "military invasion and occupation of Denmark".

Haukur Halldórsson

His website presents his version of the Viking myth of Asgard, Yggdrasil, The Tree of Live and the bewitching underworld.

Heri

The earliest mention of the name is in the Flateyjarbók (in which the spelling is 'Héri'), partly concerning the Viking age history of the Faroe Islands, written around 1380 in Iceland.

Hjalmar Stolpe

He is most well known for his archaeological excavations at the Viking-age site Birka.

James S. Martin

James Slattin Martin, Jr. (1920–2002), project manager for the Viking program

Kesja

a Viking weapon, probably a kind of polearm, used by Scandinavians during the Viking age

Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards

Former UFC fighter Chuck Liddell can be seen wearing t-shirts from the Viking album.

Life on Mars

In 2006, Mario Crocco, a neurobiologist at the Neuropsychiatric Hospital Borda in Buenos Aires, Argentina, proposed the creation of a new nomenclatural rank that classified the Viking landers' results as 'metabolic' and therefore belonging to a form of life.

Maxim Mikhailov

In addition to Susanin, Mikhailov was a renowned interpreter of other bass and basso profundo roles in Russian opera: Pimen in Boris Godunov, the miller in Dargomyzhsky's Rusalka, Khan Konchak in Prince Igor, the Viking merchant in Sadko, Gremin in Eugene Onegin.

Milford Haven Waterway

During one visit in 854, the Viking Chieftain Hubba wintered in the Haven with 23 ships, eventually lending his name to the district of Hubberston.

Norsca

It is analogous in position within the "Old World" to Scandinavia and its human occupants, the "Norse", are a fantasy version of the Norse peoples (including the vikings).

Palm Beach Princess

Initially the Viking Princess was used for cruising from San Diego, California to Mexico in Crown Cruise Line colours from April 1984 until 1985, when she was moved to cruising from West Palm Beach to the Caribbean.

Paul Bibire

He co-edited with Gareth Williams a book entitled 'Sagas, Saints and Settlements' from a 1996 interdisciplinary symposium at the University of St. Andrews, exploring the history, culture, and literature of the Viking Age and medieval Iceland and Scandinavia.

Peter Foote

He co-wrote The Viking Achievement (1960) with David M. Wilson.

Philibert of Jumièges

Philibert died and was buried at Heriou, but in 836 the monks of Noirmoutier abandoned their home in the face of the Viking attacks to seek refuge on the mainland, in 875 finally settling with the relics of Philibert in the abbey at Tournus named in his honour, where the great church of St Philibert at Tournus still stands.

Rheider Au

In the Viking period the route Eider - Treene - Rheider Au - Schlei served as a navigation way and/or transport or trade route between places to the north and the Baltic Sea, as commercial centres functioned (see Dorestad, Haithabu).

Robert of Normandy

Rollo, occasionally known as Rollo the Viking, (c. 860 - c. 932), founder and first ruler of Normandy

Sauðárkrókur

The land where Sauðárkrókur stands was first taken by the Viking Sæmundr Suðureyski ("Sæmundur from the south islands". South islands is the name Vikings gave the Hebrides islands of the coast of Scotland), but as he was marking his land another Viking, called Skefill, successfully "stole" the land where the oldest part of the town is today.

Sound symbolism

If we include a link between letters and ideas then the list includes the Viking Runes, the Hebrew Kabbalah, the Arab Abjad, etc..

The Dethalbum

All songs recorded at Mordhaus Studios, except "Murmaider" and "Go into the Water" that were recorded miles below the earth's surface in the Dethsub studio deep within the Mariana Trench, and "Better Metal Snake", "The Lost Vikings", and "Thunderhorse", AKA "The Viking Trilogy", recovered from sessions deleted by Nathan Explosion.

The Settlers

In The Settlers IV there are four playable races: the Mayans, the Vikings, the Romans, and the Trojans (the Trojans were only available after installing the expansion The Settlers IV: The Trojans and the Elixir of Power).

Treaty of Wedmore

The Peace of Wedmore is a term used by historians for an event referred to by the monk Asser in his Life of Alfred, outlining how in 878 the Viking leader Guthrum was baptised and accepted Alfred as his adoptive father.

Guthrum, the Viking leader, retreated with the remnants of his army to their "stronghold", where Alfred besieged him.

Viking 1

The Viking 1 Lander was named the Thomas Mutch Memorial Station in January 1982 in honor of the leader of the Viking imaging team.

Viking Prince

In Birds of Prey #29 (Jul 2001) Black Canary, having been sent back in time to 12th century America, meets Jon Haraldson, the Viking Prince, who is one of the Viking explorers who have discovered Vinland, and they have a brief relationship before she returns to the 21st century.

The Viking Prince appears briefly in Darwyn Cooke's DC: The New Frontier, a story of his being cast away and washing up on Dinosaur Island is told in a book discovered by the Martian Manhunter in his guise of John Jones.

Viking spacecraft biological experiments

While the majority of astrobiologists still conclude that the Viking biological experiments were inconclusive or negative, Gilbert Levin is not alone in believing otherwise.

Viking Way

The Countryside Commission recognised the significance of the Viking Way as a high quality long distance walk linking other major routes in Eastern England, these being the Yorkshire Wolds Way at the northern end, the Hereward Way and Macmillan Way from Oakham and indirectly via the Hereward Way, the Jurassic Way from Stamford and the southern end of the Peddars Way from Thetford.

Westrobothnian

This suggests that the farming settlers finally reaching Westrobothnia had little contact with southern Scandinavia during the Viking age, and most probably already by then had developed different lingual features, some of which are still preserved in some Westrobothnian dialects, particularly in the dialects spoken in Skellefteå and Bureå.