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That would be the Wootz steel. High carbon crucible steel alloy used in the manufacture of high quality swords such as the Ulfberht and Ingelrii inscribed swords.
Those Norse traders got around, and the craftsmen were true artists.
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Amusing little link. For the most part, the guy who created it had no idea what he was talking about. Viking meant a raider/pirate. Not all Scandinavians were vikings. It is like calling all Americans "Cowboys."
Blood Eagle: There are no actual contemporary accounts of this practice. And no bodies showing evidence of it have been found.
Berserkers: While many warriors engaged in battle rage, the use of drugs and living in the wild emulating wolves and bears is purely supposition.
The onion soup picture shows morion and bascinet helmets as well as lochaber axes. That places the illustration in 16th-18th century Scotland. The Viking age ended in the 11th century.
Longships with no bathrooms? Until about the 19th century, no ships had toilets.
Thrusting spikes on their shields? Show one. Spiked shields are sometimes found on Scottish targes several centuries after the Viking age.
Erik the Red was born in Norway. As a child, he moved to Iceland with his father Thorvald who was the one exiled. Erik left Iceland because of a killing--he was outlawed for only three years.And Erik was the founder of the Norse settlements in Greenland.
The comments on the mental effect of blood, and the hopes of finding monsters to fight in America are, at best groundless speculation.
BTW, based on skeletal remains, the height range for Norsemen was 5'7" to 5'11"
And "Skraelings" usually translated to mean "wretches" was used in the same way the Greeks called non Greeks "barbarians."
Teeth filing: Those are real Norseman teeth in the photo, but were they filed into points?
He missed the really cool things such as:
The Norse trade routes created Russia and brought Arab silver and Chinese silk to northern Europe. Iceland was the first European democracy. They navigated across thousands of miles of open ocean and discovered the Americas 500 years before Columbus.
And the most common artifacts found buried with Norse remains? Combs and grooming tools.
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Seems to me the Turkeys were trying to decide a couple of things about the cat: What happened to it? And is it really dead?
Can almost gear one turkey saying:
"As Coroner I must aver,
I thoroughly examined her.
And she's not only merely dead,
she's really most sincerely dead."

Crows also react to dead critters
Caitlin Doughty of Ask A Mortician just posted something about crows doing something similar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-FHInBhENM&t=1s
Interesting links to articles under her video.
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I worked in food service all through high school, college and beyond. And the only food-safe insecticides we could use were ones made with pyrethrins, an organic chemical compound originally derived from chrysanthemum flowers.
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Anakin. I suspect has some mother issues stemming from her incessant addressing him as "Annie." This, no doubt, caused him great embarrassment whenever she called him Annie in front of his friends, who would start singing "Tomorrow" then seguing into "It's the Hard Knock Life." Deep resentment caused by such harassment probably led to his penchant for ruthless suppression of whole planets.
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Oops. I fell down the rabbit hole. I knew more seemed familiar, so I did a little checking.
The lady in the red "16" sweater is Floella Benjamin, a Trinidadian-British actress, author, television presenter, singer, businesswoman and politician. She is known as presenter of children's programmes such as Play School, Play Away and Fast Forward.
Fried egg sweater was modeled by Martin Jarvis, OBE is an English actor. After a varied career in film and television, he became particularly noted for his voice-acting for radio and audio books. His appearances on American television include: Murder, She Wrote, Walker, Texas Ranger, and, Stargate Atlantis and Numb3rs. You may also have seen him in Titanic and Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
The guy with the big glasses in the panda sweater and others is Christopher Biggins is an English actor and television presenter. He played Nero in the BBC dramatisation of I, Claudius (1976),He also appeared in the BBC's Poldark (1977) as the Reverend Osborne Whitworth, and the TV miniseries Masada (1981).
Looks like this was some celebrity modeling goofy sweaters book.
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PBS and/or BBC watchers in America might recognize a couple of the models.
The man in the blue sweater with the Scottie dog is Richard Briers. He played Tom Good in the BBC sitcom The Good Life (AKA "Good Neighbors" in the USA), He also played the laird Hector in Monarch of the Glen. From the late 1980s, with Kenneth Branagh as director, he performed Shakespearean roles in: Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, and As You Like It.

The happy looking chap in the red sweater with the yellow teddy bear is John Inman, best known for his role as Mr. Humphries in Are You Being Served?, a British sitcom between 1972 and 1985.
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My wife has never been able to see them. She has MS and her binocular vision doesn't work too well.
I used to see them easily, until I had surgery to repair a detached retina. Now, its all colors and no pattern
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