OT: grandparents who raped and pillaged

[Jere Kahanpaa]

Laura Creighton <lac at strakt.com> wrote:
> For the Ship -- check out http://hem.passagen.se/keer0805/svse.htm
> We've got one.  Local.  These people are truly wonderful and truly
> insane.

Here's one from Finland, 'Hejmlösä Rus':
http://www.qnet.fi/rus-project/index.html-ssi

They have sailed around Europe with the ship. A route map is at 
http://www.qnet.fi/rus-project/whole_route.html
. My brother was one of the crew and sailed from Paris to Istanbul. Their 
ship is a replica of the first Viking boat found in Finland. It is a 
trader, long a longship and really should not carry a dragon head as seen 
in some of the pics, but I guess there are some conventions one simply 
cannot break even if they make no sense at all...

Jere
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