VIKINGS AND IRISHMEN LIVING TOGETHER.

VIKINGS AND IRISHMEN LIVING TOGETHER. While we were in Dublin, we visited Dublinia, a museum devoted to Viking and medieval Dublin. Dublinia is located in a Viking-influenced area of Dublin, near the River Liffey. The museum had special meaning for me. In the main, my mother thought of herself as Danish, and my father thought of himself as Irish. I posted here about how every so often at the dinner table when my parents disagreed on some issue, my father would beam and say: “From the fury of the Northmen deliver us, O Lord!” I used to tell the kids that the Vikings, rather than being ruthless raiders, were engaged in spreading civilization, and I think that on the whole the exhibits at Dublinia support me. This wikipedia article discusses Vikings as settlers and traders as well as raiders.