1922 : Seven Foot Tall Viking Found Frozen In The Ice

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1. Blade says:

   August 8, 2011 at 6:54 am

   I thought it would be worthwhile to copy the plaintext here …

   ICEBERG GIVES UP ITS DEAD.

   Drifting for ten centuries through the uncharted seas north of the Arctic Circle, traversing many thousand miles of snow and silence, perhaps pushed by the ever grinding ice-floes to the North Pole itself, the body of a Viking a thousand years old has been returned at last to civilization. Encased from head to heel in a frozen winding sheet that preserved it more perfectly than any Egyptian mummy the Viking’s body was discovered by Danish Doctors, standing upright in a huge iceberg, cast up on the east coast of Greenland, (says “Popular Science Siftings” ) It toweled before their amazed eyes like an incredible phantom, seven feet tall, clad in rude ancient armour, gripping spear and shield, head crowned with the winged helmet of Norse royalty, the whole dimly visible within the transparent tomb of ice. Men with axes chopped away this natural casket. Then the Viking stood as unmarred by time as though he had died but yesterday He was not dried 0r shrunken. The skin was white and firm. The hair of the head and the bushy moustache was long and red and silky.

   The iceberg had kept him imperishable for posterity. The body is being taken to Copenhagen. There scientists will endeavor to perpetuate the process of preservation by the injection of chemicals. If they are successful the body of the Viking in the Copenhagen museum will be the most remarkable relic on earth. Millions will come to stare at the Norseman who lived and loved and fought a thousand years ago.

   The Viking, with his royal winged helmet, may be no less a celebrity than Lief Ericksen, “Erick the Red, ” famed in saga and rune as a dauntless voyager, believed by many historians (who base their assumption on authentic findings) to have even landed on the shores of America four hundred years before Columbus steered the Santa Maria into harbour at San Salvador.

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2. Blade says:

   August 8, 2011 at 7:28 am

   Can someone with better Google-Fu skills try to follow up on this discovery. I can find nothing, absolutely nothing.

   You would think that this might take up at least a sentence on the wiki Viking page, but you would be wrong.

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   • Grumpy Grampy ;) says:

     August 8, 2011 at 11:04 am

     It contradicts WIKI’s version of climate history!

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3. Leon Elam says:

   August 8, 2011 at 9:25 pm

   Not “toweled”, please. “Towered before them” is more like it.

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4. Joseph A Olson says:

   August 11, 2011 at 9:45 pm

   The ‘Argus’ of Melbourne may have been the ‘News of the World’ of it’s day, so this story could be as valid as the photos of “Hilary Clintons Space Alien Love Child”. However, if real it is speculation that the rapid freezing was at end of MWP. There are mastadons frozen standing upright in Siberia from 11,000 YBP. In 1922 there would have been no method for dating other than dress. There is ample evidence that civilization extends far past the accepted dogma. Read Graham Hancocks, “Underworld” or “Forbidden Archelogy” for more supressed science and history.

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