{"id":83886,"date":"2019-01-02T12:45:14","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T16:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=83886"},"modified":"2019-01-02T12:38:46","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T16:38:46","slug":"viking-statue-toppled-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=83886","title":{"rendered":"Viking Statue Toppled \u2013 Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn10.phillymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/10\/viking-statue-ThorFinn-Karlsefni-boathouse-row.jpg\" alt=\"viking statue thorfinn karlsefni boathouse row schuylkill river\" width=\"431\" height=\"287\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo from PhillyMag.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know what the vandals who do these things have against the Philadelphia statue of Thorfinn Karlsefni, a Viking who followed Leif Erickson\u2019s trail into North America in AD 1004, but it seems as though every year in the fall, for about six years now, someone decides to pull down the bronze statue of him and throw it into the Schuykill River.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/fate-of-viking-statue-uncertain-after-schuylkill-river-recovery\/4389901\/\">https:\/\/6abc.com\/fate-of-viking-statue-uncertain-after-schuylkill-river-recovery\/4389901\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last year, the statue\u2019s face was spray painted red and then it was dragged into the river. Since it\u2019s a 1920 bronze casting, it isn\u2019t a lightweight object. This time it was decorated with anti-Nazi language and the anarchy symbol.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillymag.com\/news\/2018\/10\/02\/viking-statue-boathouse-row\/\">https:\/\/www.phillymag.com\/news\/2018\/10\/02\/viking-statue-boathouse-row\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Per the Philly Mag article, since this episode of vandalism preceded a Vikings\/Eagles game, that may have had something to do with it this time. However, that connection was deemed slim by Philly police.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also notable that a skinhead group meets nearby for their annual Leif Erickson celebration, and that they\u2019ve clashed frequently with the Philly Antifas.<\/p>\n<p>Remember those two Marines who were beaten by Antifas a couple of weeks ago? This vandalism took place around the same time as the vandalism event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=83541&amp;cpage=2\">https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=83541&amp;cpage=2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Probably the same bunch of useless schmucks, because frankly, people we used to call useless troublemakers have nothing else to do.<\/p>\n<p>The response I have to these acts, since they take place under the cover of darkness and also seem to have a common theme, is that if these dweebs were faced with real Vikings, they&#8217;d wet themselves&#8230; copiously.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRXPT0fOTFTyhk0D5KYb4V9C1UXta2IKQxYvbkQVz8BOMd-iK6tiQ\" alt=\"Image result for viking images\" width=\"218\" height=\"311\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anyone want to tangle with this skjaldm\u00e6r?\u00a0They were also called\u00a0Valmeyjar, or battle maidens.\u00a0It was not unusual for Viking women to choose to be shield maidens (skjaldm\u00e6r).<\/p>\n<p>In Old Norse, valkyrja, as well as Old English w\u00e6lcyrge means literally, &#8220;chooser of the slain&#8221;. \u00a0And the fighting was usually over\u00a0waelstow re\u00e1fung (battle plunder) and breeding rights.\u00a0But that&#8217;s a different part of Norse history and legend.<\/p>\n<p>And then there were the Celts. You do know that some Celtic women trained the boys and men for battle and participated in fighting themselves, don&#8217;t you? You didn&#8217;t know that? Ah! Well, then&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo from PhillyMag. I don\u2019t know what the vandals who do these things have against the &hellip; <a title=\"Viking Statue Toppled \u2013 Again\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=83886\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Viking Statue Toppled \u2013 Again<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,220],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}