On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:30:12 -0500, jaime
wrote:

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:24:37 -0500, (J T)
wrote:

Sun, Jan 30, 2005, 12:40pm (jaime) claims:
You just need stronger glasses.

Moot point, I'm not making any anyway. When I go pillaging, my
Viking long boat is gonna have a steam engine, not oars.

That should cut down dramatically on the use of slaves.

Viking ships were rowed by warriors, not slaves.

For a look at what it was like to be a Viking oarsman using one of
those chests, see:
http://www.ece.uwaterloo.ca/~arnora/...boreal-lay.htm

--RC
"Sometimes history doesn't repeat itself. It just yells
'can't you remember anything I've told you?' and lets
fly with a club.
-- John W. Cambell Jr.