All At Sea With The Vikings
Monday, February 28, 2011 - 16:20
in Paleontology & Archaeology
All At Sea With The Vikings The Vikings had an expression - hafvilla - which indicates a state of being at sea and having no sense of direction. There are two modern English phrases that cover this situation: 'all at sea', and 'without a clue'. In order to more fully understand the Viking sagas we must learn, not what the Old Norse words mean as translated multiple times down the ages, but what the original words meant to a Viking. North and South read more