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Those are very interesting links!

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by Sven Triloqvist on Wed Nov 28th, 2007 at 02:32:45 PM EST
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Thank you...

These old Viking laws are still FUNDAMENTAL to the Norwegian way of life, and no EU law should be allowed to 'dilute' them, IMO.

It may be a better EU if they adopted them...;-)

And by the way, they also apply in Orkney and Shetland as Udal title...

by Solveig (link2ageataol.com) on Wed Nov 28th, 2007 at 02:43:28 PM EST
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I also agree abut the climate's influence on how societies develop. In the boreal area, for all animals including humans, there is always an energy balance - if you expend more energy getting food than you get from the food itself, then in the winter, you're dead.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Wed Nov 28th, 2007 at 03:07:17 PM EST
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A fuller explanation and discussion of these laws is worth a diary.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Wed Nov 28th, 2007 at 03:10:40 PM EST
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I know...a diary has been 'brewing' in my head for a while...provoked, perhaps, by the rather 'Central European view of the world' which is often expressed on ET.  

I would suggest that a better understanding of how societies have developed in the Nordic countries may give food for thought to the (still, IMO) Empire building attitudes of the larger EU countries.    

Maybe I should sit down one day...

by Solveig (link2ageataol.com) on Wed Nov 28th, 2007 at 03:31:07 PM EST
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