Vikings

[poliphilo]

We were leaving Preston yesterday and we came across this little group of stone Vikings (on the slip road leading to the motorway.) I don't know what they're doing there but they've got bits of metal embedded in them and holes in odd places, which suggests they've been salvaged from some building or other.

I did some research (I Googled) and it turns out that Preston is on the Viking highway that runs down the Ribble valley from Jorvik (York) to the Irish Sea. The biggest Viking treasure hoard ever found outside Russia was dug up nearby (at Cuerdale) in 1840. 

 

 

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It kinda looks like they're hitching a lift.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

There's a theory that the hoard found at Cuerdale was a war chest, assembled with a view to financing an expedition to recapture Viking territory in Ireland.

If so, then maybe these guys are on their way to Dublin.

[airstrip.livejournal.com]

I think they look like people milling about in a daze. Perhaps they missed their bus and haven't yet figured out that they are at the wrong stop.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It came as a big surprise to me to learn that Dublin was founded by the Vikings.

Those guys really did get around.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

It kinda looks like they're hitching a lift.

The car tyres would be hard-pressed.