> > And would the pagan Vikings have killed these Papars?
>
> A difficult subject. In Íslendingabók Ari fróði says:
>
> "þeir fóru síðar á braut, af því at þeir
> vildu eigi vera hér við heiðna menn"
>
> Very innocent sounding words. "They went away because
> they didn't want to stay here among heathen people."
>
> They went away? Perhaps. But let's look at Ari's next words:
>
> "ok létu eftir bækur írskar, bjöllur og bagla.
> Af því mátti skilja, að þeir voru menn írskir."
>
> @: "And they left behind Irish books,
> bells and crosiers, from which could be
> gathered that they were Irish people."
>
> To me books sound like something too valuable
> and easily portable to be "left behind" just
> like that. Perhaps they had to leave in a hurry.
> Perhaps Ari is mistaken about this. Perhaps they
> were slaughtered to the last man.

Something about womanless men dressed in women's clothes...
Something about womanless men who never fish or play sports...
Something about womanless men ringing bells together...
Soemthing about womanless men singing weak and out of tune...
Something about womenless men living on good farmland...
Something about, well, argskapr...

Konu á ek góða ok fimm börn. Mart hefi ek nauta ok sauða ok mikil er
mín þörf á góðri jörð. Nú skaltu fara, gamli minn...

Ókveðja,
Meðalmaðr

> Kveðja,
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