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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4637863, member: 110504"]Thanks for that, John! From here, your observations are only most resonant in the case of peck marks. Yeah, in each collective instance, they give you an entire added dimension of socio-cultural history. And when that involves Vikings, who would say no? When I'm looking at anything later Anglo-Saxon, or even contemporaneous German /Low Countries, it's disappointing if it <i>doesn't</i> have at least one.</p><p>There's even a relevant passage in <u>Saint Olaf's Saga</u> (king of Norway 1015-1028; aka Olaf the Stout), from Snorri Sturluson's <u>Heimskringla</u>. Three of Olaf's agents are going around the country collecting taxes.</p><p> "Leif went up to Thrand to receive the purse, and (...) poured it into his shield, rooted in it with his hand, and told Karl to look at the silver. They examined it for a while. Then Karl asked what Leif thought about it.</p><p> "He replied, 'It seems to me that all the bad money in the North Islands has been brought here.'</p><p> "Thrand overheard that and said, 'Don't you like the silver, Leif?'</p><p> "'No indeed,' he said.'"</p><p>(<u>Heimskringla</u>, tr. Lee M. Hollander. 1964. Austin: U of Texas P, 1991. P. 431.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4637863, member: 110504"]Thanks for that, John! From here, your observations are only most resonant in the case of peck marks. Yeah, in each collective instance, they give you an entire added dimension of socio-cultural history. And when that involves Vikings, who would say no? When I'm looking at anything later Anglo-Saxon, or even contemporaneous German /Low Countries, it's disappointing if it [I]doesn't[/I] have at least one. There's even a relevant passage in [U]Saint Olaf's Saga[/U] (king of Norway 1015-1028; aka Olaf the Stout), from Snorri Sturluson's [U]Heimskringla[/U]. Three of Olaf's agents are going around the country collecting taxes. "Leif went up to Thrand to receive the purse, and (...) poured it into his shield, rooted in it with his hand, and told Karl to look at the silver. They examined it for a while. Then Karl asked what Leif thought about it. "He replied, 'It seems to me that all the bad money in the North Islands has been brought here.' "Thrand overheard that and said, 'Don't you like the silver, Leif?' "'No indeed,' he said.'" ([U]Heimskringla[/U], tr. Lee M. Hollander. 1964. Austin: U of Texas P, 1991. P. 431.)[/QUOTE]
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