OT: Puck, I have been in York, years ago and noticed many signs of Viking presence in the past. In Scotland, I heard them say börrrrn for children and fjords for, well fjords. Yes, it must be my Viking blood that makes me so unpatriotic as to live where I like it the best. By the way, don't mention this to anyone but the whole Viking thing is under scrutiny; it turns out many of the myths were created in the eighteen hundreds but "we" had good boats that's for sure. Have boat, will travel...
And before Ilmarinen responds to 8462: there is a minority in Finland that, for historical reasons, speak Swedish (some of my "real" Finnish friends say that they, to some degree, are a pain in the butt..) as is there a minority in the northern part of Sweden that still speaks Finnish, a long time after they migrated there. As you probably know, Swedish and Finnish are as different as English and Chinese. |
