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People still make a ton of cash sell rhino horns and elephant tusks. Selling what some people thought were unicorn horns would be massively profitable.
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Elephant skulls used were valuable because people thought they were the remains of cyclops'. Which is a pretty honest mistake when you look at them. 
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Some of you may be interested in this thing I threw together today, clarifies the real-world inspirations behind the designs of some of the Bride's Story crew (and makes me hungry for kabobs):
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Epoxy Bulletin posted:Some of you may be interested in this thing I threw together today, clarifies the real-world inspirations behind the designs of some of the Bride's Story crew (and makes me hungry for kabobs): Very nifty that.  Also, as far as the Narwhal tusks go I wonder if Haalfdan wants to see if our dear Thorfinn is willing to lie and cheat which is what it takes to sell Narwhal tusks at a good price. Is that a part of his pride that he is willing to sell?
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The first volume of Mitsuteru Yokoyama's Genghis Khan was translated. http://hoxtranslations.blogspot.com/2014/07/chinggis-khan-v1.html
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Guyver posted:The first volume of Mitsuteru Yokoyama's Genghis Khan was translated. Thanks for the heads up on this, it's actually pretty interesting!
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Guyver posted:The first volume of Mitsuteru Yokoyama's Genghis Khan was translated. I've liked both Date Masamune and Sangokushi so I'm up for more Yokoyama historial stuff.
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A new Chapter of Historie is out (86). Man that was a short and bittersweet meeting there.  Charon been holding that guilt for a long long time.
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http://www.batoto.net/read/_/263111/vinland-saga_ch106_by_4chan/1 New Vinland Chapter Those who said Unicorns, you are absolutely correct
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Ha! Far from entering the final leg of the journey, it looks like we're in for a few years of Byzantine Saga first! I did not see that coming at all. Can't wait!
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Wowsers. Looks like they're off to Byzantium! http://www.batoto.net/read/_/263111/vinland-saga_ch106_by_4chan/19 Well, I suppose Grikkland means Greek land, thus the Byzantine Empire.
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Miklagard is the viking name for Istanbul.
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Poor Gudrid!  I wish she could come along to
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Mikl posted:Miklagard is the viking name for Istanbul. Just to improve/ruin everyone else's day, Miklagard and Istanbul have the same number of syllables, so they substitute nicely in song. In case you know any songs about Istanbul.
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Eiba posted:Ha! Far from entering the final leg of the journey, it looks like we're in for a few years of Byzantine Saga first! I did not see that coming at all. Can't wait!
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Mikl posted:Miklagard is the viking name for Istanbul. Nah, it won't be Istanbul until close to a millennia later. Wouldn't it be faster just to go through the straits of Gibraltar? If the vikings have already made it to Constantinople they should know that they can just sail around Spain.
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Gyges posted:Nah, it won't be Istanbul until close to a millennia later. A minor historical point about names, in case anyone doesn't know- no one called the Byzantine Empire the Byzantine Empire when it was around. Contemporaries in Western Europe would call it the Greek Empire or something like that (Grikkland), while they simply referred to themselves as the Roman Empire. Because they were. Thorfinn's going to visit the capital of the Roman Empire to sell Unicorn horns.
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Yeah they believed themselves to the continuation of the Roman empire and called themselves as such. A lot of the history is pretty fascinating
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The Varangian Guard will undoubtedly be making an appearance. I think they were fleetingly mentioned at some point before, or a minor character was with them? I can't remember. I'm getting the feeling that they're going to be bumping into an old friend, or will get busted trying to sell fake unicorn horns to the emperor or something. http://imgur.com/dUWQ5l8 
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It's times like these that I am glad that I spent so much time playing Crusader Kings 2, because I totally get all the geography they talked about in this chapter.
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Awww yeah, let's go to loving Greece. Let's loving do this Yukimura, let's make this happen.
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I am looking forward to this so much more than Farming Saga.
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I cannot wait to see Yukimura depict Constantinople. I hope the crew makes it there okay. 
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I'm pretty sure that around the time the comic takes place the Varangian Guard switches from being Nordic to overwhelmingly Anglo-Saxon. With a larger flood coming after William the Conqueror shows up on the scene. I have no loving idea what year it is in this story any longer so you may just well see Basil II blind 14000 Bulgarians. And generously leave 1000 of them with just a single eye to lead the procession back home.
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YouTuber posted:I'm pretty sure that around the time the comic takes place the Varangian Guard switches from being Nordic to overwhelmingly Anglo-Saxon. With a larger flood coming after William the Conqueror shows up on the scene. I have no loving idea what year it is in this story any longer so you may just well see Basil II blind 14000 Bulgarians. And generously leave 1000 of them with just a single eye to lead the procession back home.
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tonberrytoby posted:Harald had just died when the farm cast met Canute, so it should be 1018 or 1019. Which means we may get an interlude with Canute's son being born!
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tonberrytoby posted:Harald had just died when the farm cast met Canute, so it should be 1018 or 1019. I guess there's a lot of differences between history's Thorfinn and ours, so it may just be his life that's different, but I wouldn't take too much stock in dates in any case. Yukimura can do what he wants with history, for the sake of the story.
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Selling fake medicine is only marginally better than violence as a solution to your problems
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Terror Sweat posted:Selling fake medicine is only marginally better than violence as a solution to your problems Almost all medicine during the time was fake medicine, even when they didn't know it.
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Terror Sweat posted:Selling fake medicine is only marginally better than violence as a solution to your problems And keep in mind that he's not exactly selling to the Red Cross here. It'll probably ultimately wind its way in the hands of some rich noble or merchant who's having trouble getting it up or something. On an unrelated note... Gudrid's story is unbearably sad. Her sitting on a rock looking at Lief's map in the sand was really good. I like the idea of being so inspired by some lines in the sand, with only the barest inkling of what their true implication was. It must have felt like learning astronomy today- understanding the numbers just enough to get a slight impression of how incredibly massive our universe is, and how tiny our world is. To snap from that to... marital politics, so utterly petty, but horrifyingly life-consuming, was... quite the transition. And no one around her cares in the slightest. Forget stowing away, she drat well better end up invited on Thorfinn's expedition, by people who understand and care about what she's going on about, because it's pretty god drat depressing now.
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Zorak posted:Almost all medicine during the time was fake medicine, even when they didn't know it. Well, mostly. There were a few practices that were actually beneficial. There was a plant/root that was a amazing abortifacient used so much during the Roman Empire the plant went extinct. Chewing willow bark to relieve pain, some various herbal concoctions, etc. It came down to some active ingredient in low concentration being effective as a cure. Of course it was balanced by people drinking mercury, bleeding a sick person of multiple pints of blood, and smearing feces into open wounds. TRADTIONAL MEDICINE!
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Eiba posted:
Yeah, that was pretty heartbreaking to see. Hopefully Gudrid will be able to come, just by switching places with Haughty McQueen. Without too much bloodshed and stuff. I'm also starting to realize that the prelude really was a prelude. If we're first going to Greece and it's the same length as going to Vinland. My god, we're not even halfway through this story are we...
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Einar is my top pick for person who lets her on the ship.
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Welp, just marathoned what was available of Gunka no Baltzar. I need to stop doing this to myself.
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 Ad Astra number 3. It's a very dry and literal adaption of the history, but I think that's a cool thing, you can tell the author must have spent forever researching it.
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Yeah, I'm really liking Ad Astra. It's triggering all sorts of stuff from history class I've forgotten. The art is great as well.
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