Rowdy Geirsson

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Vad fan...I live in the Boston area and like Vikings. I don't really like talking about myself much except for when I'm complaining about my own personal shortcomings which usually tend to be a result of me not being a Viking myself. No one's perfect, except for maybe Leif Eriksson and he died 1000 years ago.

Anyway, I maintain a website called www.scandinavianaggression.com. Its original function was to shamelessly promote my manuscript of Viking oral history, but it has since grown and now also features other valuable information for our Viking-deficient modern world, such as a contemporary Viking booze list and a Viking self help guide. You can read more about the book at the bottom of this section if you care to.

You can also check out my short piece of Viking investigative journalism called Welcome to the Mead Hall released by Word Riot. It features Norwegian whaler/Vikings, pretty blond women, misbehaving leprechauns, and an excessive abundance of alcohol.

Here are some excellent words of wisdom from the exceptional Olli Mikkonen of Amon Amarth fame (taken from the October/November 2006 issue of Sweden Rock Magazine): "Finns det något mera metal än vikingar? Om det hade funnits sådan här musik på vikingatiden, det är klart som fan att vikingarna hade lyssnat på metal!" (approximate translation: "Is there anything more metal than Vikings? If there had been this type of music during their time, it's clear as fuck that the Vikings would have listened to metal!").

And now for the blurb about my book followed by a link to my website where I have some excerpts and other random Viking shit (including the aforementioned list of Viking-related beer, mead, and hard liquor): It's called The Scandinavian Aggressors: An Oral History of the Modern Viking Movement and it is the world's first and only account of the glorious (and oftentimes not so glorious) deeds of the Vikings during their tumultuous 2004 reunion tour. In it readers will meet larger-than-life Viking heroes Trond "Troll-Breath" Trondsen, Björn Svensson, and Ingrid Törnblom as they tell of their ruthless quests to enslave leprechauns, decapitate Copenhagen's statue of The Little Mermaid, conquer England, and drink lots and lots of mead. A slew of lesser Vikings flesh it out with their tales that include such things as the slaying of a retarded dragon, the razing of a doll's house in Oslo, and the suffering of horrendous digestive problems on the day of a fateful Icelandic jihad against the indigenous tribes of Greenland.

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