Vikings adventure in The Netherlands

©Tamara Bakx

Hail Vikings,

Last Sunday I was at an exhibition about dragons. I know you might wonder what happened to you? Dragons and not Vikings. The funny fact the dragon is in a few myths from Vikings there are dragons. The dad of Aslaug (Sigurd) killed a dragon (Fafnir). There are three dragons known  Níðhöggr, Jörmungandr, and Fafnir and a dragon killed by Frotho 1 (this myth used by Tolkien and Peter Jackson in The Hobbit).  In this exhibition, they told a few things about the dragon in Europe. Did you know that the dragon head (Dragonhead) placed on boats to please the gods, to expel evil during their journeys and scare the other boats.

In this museum, they also had the history of Limburg and surely they had a few Viking items. I will post a link to the pictures I took from both the dragon exhibition and the history of Limburg pictures.

©Tamara Bakx

In Nijmegen, I went to see the house of history of Nijmegen. They have found lots of treasures from the roman emperor and doubt that Vikings have been there. Although the last decade, they came back from it because they needed to be there because surrounded by a river that ends in Germany.

As I said before in the Netherlands they have denied a long time that there were no Vikings at all because we couldn’t proof it. We have several findings now that they indeed lived, worked, and raid here.

Pictures

Dragon:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jinkskr7i01ughg/AACSdvBuuoV1MaRtVz65Rs0Fa?dl=0
Vikings inLimburg: 
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zqy92lag9ruw47o/AAA2UcedDVMppZ70jakPN9rpa?dl=0

Other links

Nidhogg

http://norse-mythology.org/gods-and-creatures/giants/nidhogg/
http://www.northernpaganism.org/shrines/nidhogg/gifts.html

Jorgumand

http://norse-mythology.org/gods-and-creatures/giants/jormungand/
http://mythical-and-paranormal-blog.blogspot.nl/2012/03/jormungandr-world-serpent.html

Fafnir

http://journal.finfar.org/
http://www.britannica.com/topic/Fafnir

Q and A Clive Standen

Tonight there was a Q and A with Clive Standen who plays Rollo in Vikings.He did this because the first season and second episode in the UK was shown there.

I was able to ask him a few questions. He did gave me something to look up and now I know even more about the myth he liked.

Which other character would you like to play?

Clive: “I'm happy with Rollo but I can't wait to see where Michael takes the character of "Ivar the boneless"

Have you ever been in The Netherlands?

Clive: “I have...I did a theatre tour of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein in 2003 to Eindhoven, Utrecht,Gouda,Amsterdam and Rotterdam.loved it”

Which myth do you like most about the Vikings?

Clive: “look up the viking myth of how the phrase "cut your nose off to spite your face" was formed ... #Gruesome”

I then took the time to look it up and found out this:

There where nuns and the Vikings came there and in order to protect them from raping by the Vikings they cut of their noses. To find the full story click below on the link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting_off_the_nose_to_spite_the_face

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