It started with lots of kings ...

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... then it went downhill.
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:laugh:
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HansV wrote:
26 Jun 2021, 07:26
:laugh:
What Hans said!

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GeoffW wrote:
26 Jun 2021, 07:33
HansV wrote:
26 Jun 2021, 07:26
:laugh:
What Hans said!
What Geoff said!
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As quite often happens, pop etymology fails the accuracy test!
The word 'viking'
does not split as 'vi' and 'king'
but either as 'vik' and 'ing'
or not at all, as in 'viking'.
It's from Old Norse, so to some extent lost in the mists of time... :brainwash:
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:yawn:
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John Gray wrote:
26 Jun 2021, 09:39
As quite often happens, pop etymology fails the accuracy test!
The word 'viking'
does not split as 'vi' and 'king'
but either as 'vik' and 'ing'
or not at all, as in 'viking'.
It's from Old Norse, so to some extent lost in the mists of time... :brainwash:
</pedant>
I apologise for not picking that up.

I don't know about viking, because I've never viked.

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GeoffW wrote:
26 Jun 2021, 09:45
I don't know about viking, because I've never viked.
We only have your word for this...! :smile:
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GeoffW wrote:
26 Jun 2021, 09:45
I don't know about viking, because I've never viked.
So you're not a viker...
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HansV wrote:
26 Jun 2021, 07:26
:laugh:
The last one said: IKING, but for what? Times are really changing, and what's zero?
John Gray wrote:
26 Jun 2021, 09:39
As quite often happens, pop etymology fails the accuracy test!
The word 'viking'
does not split as 'vi' and 'king'
but either as 'vik' and 'ing'
or not at all, as in 'viking'.
It's from Old Norse, so to some extent lost in the mists of time... :brainwash:
</pedant>
I knew that, of course, since vik [bay] is a word still in use here.
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IKING, UKING, EVERYBODY KING!
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:laugh:
And we're back where we started.
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HansV wrote:
26 Jun 2021, 10:38
IKING, UKING, EVERYBODY KING!
In the land of the blind, IKING is man.
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:grin:

One I more, and I would be two. :wave:
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HansV wrote:
26 Jun 2021, 10:22
So you're not a viker...
I certainly hope that doesn't make me a 1ker.

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Argus wrote:
26 Jun 2021, 06:21
... then it went downhill.
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Despite the customary outpouring of jocularity in this thread, I would like to add my solemn appreciation because just this week I began listening to an audiobook, "The Sea Wolves _ A History of the Vikings", a time-waster if ever there was one, when I should be hard at work on my Turing Machines to convert Roman Numbers to Hexadecimal, and vice-versa.
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You are welcome, Chris.
If you would like to read some historical fiction, I can recommend The Long Ships (Röde Orm in Swedish), by Frans G. Bengtsson. I haven't read it in translation, but it's full of humour* and adventures. Great fun.

https://www.nyrb.com/products/the-long-ships
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Ships

* Some of that caused by the style; from Wikip: "... but when writing The Long Ships he instead made use of the [Icelandic] saga's faculties for wisecracks and comic understatements." And: "In the Swedish original of The Longships, the grammar is deliberately slightly archaic."
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Leif wrote:
26 Jun 2021, 07:37
GeoffW wrote:
26 Jun 2021, 07:33
HansV wrote:
26 Jun 2021, 07:26
:laugh:
What Hans said!
What Geoff said!
What Leif said! Kim
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Argus wrote:
26 Jun 2021, 10:27
I knew that, of course, since vik [bay] is a word still in use here.
Of course! :headthrob:

"The Sea Wolves _ A History of the Vikings", 3h58m20s "... named it Reykjavík, which means 'smoky bay;'"
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HansV wrote:
26 Jun 2021, 10:38
IKING, UKING, EVERYBODY KING!
The correct conjugation . . .
IBKING, UBKING, WEBKING! :laugh:
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