ex-Vikings sorry for looting, pillaging


	ex-Vikings sorry for looting, pillaging

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8-17-2007 9:35 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1279c7ac-a730-47be-bb69-cdb91488418a/EBDF4500-A209-46E6-A358-B266FE40B99C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/danes-sorry-for-looting-and-pillaging/2007/08/16/1186857683456.html" href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/danes-sorry-for-looting-and-pillaging/2007/08/16/1186857683456.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.smh.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/danes-sorry-for-looting-and-pillaging/2007/08/16/1186857683456.html"><P>MORE than 1200 years ago hordes of bloodthirsty Viking raiders
descended on Ireland, pillaging monasteries and massacring the
inhabitants.</p> <P>On Wednesday, one of their more mild-mannered descendants
stepped ashore to apologise.</p> <P>The Danish Minister for Culture, Brian Mikkelson, who was in
Dublin to celebrate the arrival of a replica Norse longboat,
apologised for the invasion and destruction inflicted.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/danes-sorry-for-looting-and-pillaging/2007/08/16/1186857683456.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.smh.com.au/img/94CC7A24-6664-4489-A223-DAC736E0F4C4" alt="The Sea Stallion … the original was built in Ireland." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/danes-sorry-for-looting-and-pillaging/2007/08/16/1186857683456.html"><P>"In Denmark we are certainly proud of this ship but we are not
proud of the damage to the people of Ireland that followed in the
footsteps of the Vikings," Mr Mikkelson declared in his welcoming
speech delivered by the River Liffey.</p> <P>"But the warmth and friendliness with which you greet us today
and the Viking ship show us that, luckily, it has all been
forgiven."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/danes-sorry-for-looting-and-pillaging/2007/08/16/1186857683456.html"><P>The Havhingsten [Sea Stallion] sailed across the North Sea with
a crew of 65 men and women in what was described as a "living
archaeological experiment".</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/EBDF4500-A209-46E6-A358-B266FE40B99C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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