When Vikings Loot The Wrong Town
Ridiculous History
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4.2 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Like many Viking leaders, Halfdan and Bjorn wanted to be known for their fearlessness in battle and their ability to locate the finest spoils -- they wanted the community to tell stories of their valor for generations to come. Their father Ragnar built a name for himself raiding Paris, so they wanted to kick things up a notch and raid an even more prominent city: Rome. However, there was one small problem with their plan.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the show ridiculous historians and possible Viking descendents. |
| 0:29.5 | My name is Ben. |
| 0:30.7 | My name is Noel. |
| 0:31.7 | I used to have a little red in my beard. |
| 0:33.6 | Does that mean I'm a possible Viking descendant? |
| 0:36.2 | Well, it means you definitely have the possibility of that red hair gene. |
| 0:40.2 | That's right. |
| 0:41.2 | You know, we would need to do some more testing. |
| 0:44.1 | I also have a red beard when I grow it out. |
| 0:47.5 | And in the part of Tennessee where I'm from, there is this old folk saying about how you |
| 0:53.6 | can't trust someone who has two different colors of facial hair. |
| 0:57.9 | Like I have brown hair on my head and then red hair on my face, not to be trusted. |
| 1:03.8 | What about people with two different color eyes? |
| 1:05.5 | Because I have the two different colored beard and two different color eyes. |
| 1:08.1 | I mean, I'm super untrustworthy. |
| 1:09.5 | Uh, no, no, not in my part of the world. |
| 1:12.9 | There's heterochromia they seem fine with. |
| 1:16.2 | Would they think I'm a witch? |
| 1:18.1 | I think you might have to have a milky eye or very like apparently different eye. |
| 1:23.5 | That's right. |
| 1:24.5 | What's been on? |
| 1:25.5 | But you know who is super trustworthy, Noel. |
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