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    Venue Analysis

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    Course: 3117HSL Facility & Venue Management. Assessment: 1 - Facility/Venue Design Analysis. Name: Zen Nakamura-Vincent Student Number: S2803171 Due Date: 12th/April/2013 Tutor: Liz Fredline Currumbin Surf Life Saving Club (Currumbin Beach Vikings) Source: Walkinonwater 1.0 Design Context. The Currumbin Surf Life Saving Club (SLSC) as a whole is a well-designed multi storey local

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    Who Were the Normans?

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    The Normans were originally known as Norsemen or Northmen and Danes. They were closely akin(m¦‡MvÎxq) to the English. They were fair haired but most cruel and daring. They came from Denmark‚ Norway and Scandinavia and from also the original homeland of the Angles and Guts. Afterwards they had been appearing on the states of England‚ of its society and politics. Ultimately they took Britain to be their suitable homeland and conquered. In England‚ the Norman first descended on the sea-coasts‚ plundered(jyÚb

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    The Viking  Etymology Other names  History Viking Age Viking expansion Motives End of the Viking Age Culture Literature and language Runestones Burial sites Ships Everyday life Social structure Appearances Farming and cuisine Sports Games and entertainment Experimental archaeology  Weapons and warfare  Trade Goods Legacy Medieval perceptions of the Vikings Post-medieval perceptions In 20th-century politics In modern popular culture Common misconceptions

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    In fact‚ many surviving rune carvings all over Viking areas in Europe are inscriptions written in the third person by persons wishing to commemorate the deceased. Creating epitaphs of this kind was the task of rune writers or carvers‚ usually retained by the wealthy. The carver often declares his own name or that of the person who wished to remember another‚ often a warrior who lived and died nobly or valiantly in battle. For some Vikings‚ the person who carved the rune performed a kind of divination

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    Vikig Women

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    early in the viking times women were not allowed to be vikings. The Old Norse word vikingar was strictly only given to men. and as time went on things started to change . some of the viking would travel with their husbands to other parts of Scandinavia and Europe to raid‚ while others stayed at home due to religion. women did play a part in settlement. there was indigenous culture in some places that they settled and women did occasionally marry a local. the women did live on farms with the men

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    mythology of the Vikings (Norse) has many similarities with the Greek myths. These myths are‚ by no means‚ identical to the Greek ones (like the Roman ones are)‚ but there are very distinct commonalities between the two. I see two possible reasons for this besides pure coincidence. The first has to do with the fact that Norse myths were codified during the Viking era: 780 - 1070. This gives the Norsemen many centuries to become exposed to the Greek (or Roman) myths. The Vikings did travel as far

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    the Annals of St. Bertin‚ penned possibly around the 9 or 10th century. It is a historical annal written during the period that contains important information regarding the Vikings’ activity‚ their constructive and destructive activities during the period around 830-82 AD. The passage describes a typical robbery made by the Vikings during the 9th century AD. They are portrayed as “pirates” and the theft happened in”Charles Realm” so presumably in France. The captured were the Abbott Louis of St. Denis

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    4‚ June 2013 Merchants and Trade/Norse Literature The ancient Norse are‚ still today‚ recognized as great traders and travellers from 789 AD to 1100 AD‚ just after the battle of Hastings. The way the Vikings traded was rather similar to the way of others; only they travelled and traded in mass groups. Although most trading took place around the Scandinavian coast‚ international trading grew quickly and attracted merchants from all over Europe‚ the Arab states and even Asia. Merchants weren’t

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    Stave Churches

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    In particular‚ the Oseberg ship and it’s carvings‚ created by the Vikings sometime in the first half of the ninth century‚ offers striking similarities to the carvings at Urnes (Carter‚ 151). Eaton claims that the theme of the carvings at Urnes “owes much to Viking precedent; it closely resembles that of the Oseberg ship” (502). Again‚ this provides the proof necessary to dispel the notion that these Stave churches

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    Pros And Cons Of Vikings

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    goes as the following “History repeats itself”. We’ve seen that the Vikings were polytheistic and within time they accepted Christianity meaning that they became monotheists. Looking throughout history we see that the Greeks‚ Egyptians which were polytheistic and had a similar story to those of the Vikings where they accepted Christianity at some point thus becoming monotheists. The new religion known as Christianity in the Viking era had some good out comes as well as bad out comes‚ which contributed

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