Were the Vikings Norse or Pagan?

Runes don't have numerals, only letters. To write a modern type date using runes you have to spell out the words - e.g. t h e : t h I r d : o f : j you n e : n I n e t e e n.... In the Viking age, people were born the year or season - sometimes the day - of some important event or other (born the winter of the great landslide, for instance, or born on the year his big brother went in viking), or they were just a certain number of winters old (winters were hard, so you counted each one you had survived), but these things were never written down. People kept them in their heads.

In fact, the people of the Viking age didn't write *anything* down. They had various tricks for learning long stories and poems and geneaologies, and some stories could take hours to recite. There were runic "perpetual" calendars, but, the oldest known is from the 14th century, over three hundred years after the end of the Viking age.

When the Nordic peoples started writing dates (using the Julian calendar) they used Roman numerals even when they wrote everything else with runes. In a very few cases dates have been found written with the rune whose placement in the futhark corresponds to the Roman numerals for the date in question. But this is as late as the 17th century, and not Viking age.

Https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=deg... You can get a college degree in the subject. But I'm not recommending you go that far. But someone on the faculty might be able to help you.

You might also want to post under languages as not everyone in the tattoo section is a language expert...and that's what you need. Good luck.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.