And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Both Iceland and Ireland suffered Muslim slave raids. Iceland was settled from Denmark so unlikely she's a captive of other vikings. Shopping trip to England?
clenched nails through square washers? there is a simple tool to turn the nail point 90 deg to finish the application, with an inclined surface to pound the nail over before setting it flat against the wood.
What an evocative picture!
ReplyDeleteOne last look at the Irish coast before she gets to Iceland.
ReplyDeleteOr maybe an Icelander who was captured and is heading to Denmark as a captive.
ReplyDeleteThis image could get a “That Hair” title. Spectacular.
ReplyDeleteRolling Home...maybe old-maybe new?
ReplyDeleteBoth Iceland and Ireland suffered Muslim slave raids. Iceland was settled from Denmark so unlikely she's a captive of other vikings.
ReplyDeleteShopping trip to England?
John the River: So, there were exactly zero human inhabitants of Iceland before the Danes arrived? That's a little hard to believe.
DeleteNo native population before the Norse arrived . Discovered by Norwegian vikings.
DeleteThat was 874AD.
DeleteI stand corrected.
Deleteclenched nails through square washers? there is a simple tool to turn the nail point 90 deg to finish the application, with an inclined surface to pound the nail over before setting it flat against the wood.
ReplyDeleteLooks like she is on a lake in Oklahoma. - Snakepit
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