Re: Can you identify this photo?
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2017 8:56 pm
I give up.
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Not to milk this too much, and don't kiel over in shock, but I will dane to repeat myself: Holsteins would have been a fitting breed for that photo. Now excuse me while I put a Hamburger on the grill.Bootstrap wrote:OJ, what kind of cows did you say they should have been?
These are photos from the Haithabu Viking Museum in Schleswig-Holstein. And yes, that's close to Denmark, a country Viking fans, Beowulf fans, and Shakespeare fans will recognize ;->Hats Off wrote:Schleswig-Holstein, a few kilometres south of the Danish border and about 90 kilometres north of Hamburg. Kiel is the capital of Schleswig-Holstein, a German state and was under Danish control for a period.
Indeed. The Vikings are from Minnesota, which is close to Wisconsin, which makes lots of cheese, most of which comes from the milk of Holstein cows (90% of the dairy cattle in Wisconsin are Holsteins).Bootstrap wrote:These are photos from the Haithabu Viking Museum in Schleswig-Holstein. And yes, that's close to Denmark, a country Viking fans, Beowulf fans, and Shakespeare fans will recognize ;->
And here I spent all my life thinking Vikings were from Scandinavia. You know, it was worth the entire MennoNet admission fee just to learn this. Thanks, OJ.ohio jones wrote:Indeed. The Vikings are from Minnesota, which is close to Wisconsin, which makes lots of cheese, most of which comes from the milk of Holstein cows (90% of the dairy cattle in Wisconsin are Holsteins).Bootstrap wrote:These are photos from the Haithabu Viking Museum in Schleswig-Holstein. And yes, that's close to Denmark, a country Viking fans, Beowulf fans, and Shakespeare fans will recognize ;->
It's a small, small world.
Funny you should mention Beowulf. Way back in the late 90's I wanted to choose Beowulf for my hotmail account, but it was taken and so I was presented with the option of taking Beowulf37. Rather than that, I chose Haithabu, which no one else seemed to want. (Tip to doxxers: it has been my username on just about every forum I have frequented ever since. )Bootstrap wrote:These are photos from the Haithabu Viking Museum in Schleswig-Holstein. And yes, that's close to Denmark, a country Viking fans, Beowulf fans, and Shakespeare fans will recognize ;->Hats Off wrote:Schleswig-Holstein, a few kilometres south of the Danish border and about 90 kilometres north of Hamburg. Kiel is the capital of Schleswig-Holstein, a German state and was under Danish control for a period.
So Haithabu, does your username have anything to do with Vikings? Or cows? Or Germans? Or Danes?
Bootstrap wrote:I gather Grendel was already taken?