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An interesting story picked up by @Bradypus about Scandinavian visitors - going back to 1108AD.
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An interesting story picked up by @Bradypus about Scandinavian visitors - going back to 1108AD.
An interesting story picked up by @Bradypus about Scandinavian visitors - going back to 1108AD.
Yes but they should also have mentioned Saint Bridget of Sweden!!
In case you wonder about the albergue(s) on the Camino Francés that bear her name! Or places along the Vía de la Plata, etc.
I wonder if Bridget Bardo was Swedish...she was a blonde.
We in ireland are only after celebrating st bridgets day whic is 1st feburary where people gather at her birthplace of faughart in co louth and pray at the stream etcYes but they should also have mentioned Saint Bridget of Sweden!!
In case you wonder about the albergue(s) on the Camino Francés that bear her name! Or places along the Vía de la Plata, etc.
InterestingAn interesting story picked up by @Bradypus about Scandinavian visitors - going back to 1108AD.
They can’t mention everything in a short article. For example, Sigurd I is merely described as the first Norwegian pilgrim in Santiago in the article. One imagines a pious and modest royal pilgrim on foot. Turns out that he is also known as Sigurd the Crusader and Sigurd Jerusalemfarer and that, on his sailing trip from Norway via England and France to Jerusalem, he stopped with his army in Galicia to spend the winter there and when there was eventually some dispute about food and other provisions during his long stay in or near Santiago de Compostela he and his army did a bit of attacking and looting before they left for Lisbon and the Mediterranean Sea.Yes but they should also have mentioned Saint Bridget of Sweden!!
About par for the course at the time The Fourth Crusade set off from western Europe with the idea of recapturing Jerusalem from its Muslim occupiers. On the way they stopped off at Constantinople and wrecked and plundered the place. Which was of course a Christian city at the timehe stopped with his army in Galicia to spend the winter there and when there was eventually some dispute about food and other provisions during his long stay in Santiago de Compostela he and his army did a bit of attacking and looting before they left for Lisbon and the Mediterranean Sea.
Apparently in our blood......he stopped with his army in Galicia to spend the winter there and when there was eventually some dispute about food and other provisions during his long stay in or near Santiago de Compostela he and his army did a bit of attacking and looting before they left for Lisbon and the Mediterranean Sea.
Yes, everyone against everyone else. A far cry from today’s peace loving camino pilgrim who makes life long friends from around the world and doesn’t smash the hospitalero’s skull in when there is no food ....About par for the course at the time
Yes, everyone against everyone else. A far cry from today’s peace loving camino pilgrim who makes life long friends from around the world and doesn’t smash the hospitalero’s skull in when there is no food ....
But I suppose that you are aware that the Norwegians trips to Compostela did not go well, sometimes...
Vikings in Iberia - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Can't win'em all...But I suppose that you are aware that the Norwegians trips to Compostela did not go well, sometimes...
Vikings in Iberia - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Do not believe that stealing stuff: The Vikings were very careful at personal hygiene and smelling good... And as you have tested, something good came out of it...Yes we had trouble with those Vikings as well, with their plundering and stealing our women I found out recently after a DNA test that I had 4% Norwegian blood (DNA) in me. Go figure.
Have I a case for citizenship.Do not believe that stealing stuff: The Vikings were very careful at personal hygiene and smelling good... And as you have tested, something good came out of it...
Annual Viking raid re-enactment in Catoira, Galicia, August 5th. Huge and wild party!!!!!
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It seems that the Vikings had several episodes with the Church of Britonia in Galicia that lasted more than 300 years in the Mondoñedo area and it is very unknown in Spain and outside.That Church had more problems with the Vikings than with the Muslims.But I suppose that you are aware that Norwegians trips to Compostela did not go well, sometimes...
Vikings in Iberia - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Can't win'em all...
Nice holiday, thank you: Will be back next year.Rape, pillage - oh, and a Compostela please.
HillariusI wonder if Bridget Bardo was Swedish...she was a blonde.