Oh the ocean
the ocean
the beautiful blue shiny ocean
the ocean
Oh the ocean
on the ocean
the wind in your face the salty air in your nose
walking on soft squishy sand and the waves lapping at your feet
but the all of a a sudden down your dog goes
in a crack between the rocks, but before the water would her meet
two men came and pulled her out
she ran back home
away from the spout
there afar you see a boat of foam
and it sails to you
full of pirates and vikings of old
they attack put you throw some goo
and they get stuck in there, wishing for gold
you walk back towards your car
enjoying the sun and the seagulls from afar
you get back to your car and drive to your house
on your way you almost hit a mouse
the ocean
Oh the ocean
the beautiful blue shiny ocean
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Friday, August 1, 2014
Recent learning and other things
Recent learning
Recent reading
Recently I have read the Hero's guide series. Book's 1,2 and 3. Here is some stuff about book 1: This series is made around making fun of Prince charming and some fairy tails. It changes them and combines them into an crazy and funny series. This book introduces the characters and tells us the real names of the prince's charming. Liam,Gustav,Duncan and Frederic. Liam is the Prince charming from Sleeping beauty, Gustav from Rapunzel, Duncan from snow white and Frederic from Cinderella.
I also have been reading the Rangers apprentice series. Its a series placed in medieval fantasy land of Araluen, Scandia Teutland, Gallica , Temujai , Celtia and more. These countries and people's probably are based on real modern day countries. Araluen probably being England ( I don't see any name reason here but i think it is england beacuse of the Longbows and some other things ) , Scandia most likely being Scandinavia( you can see the oblivious name reason here), Teutlandt probably Germany ( the name reason is probably from the Teutonic knights and Deutschland ,see how it ends with land? ), Gallica might be France ( Here it is most likely because of the Gauls )and Temujai ( I can not really see the name reason here besides it is Asian. But I think it is the mongols because the guy who started the Temujai is called something close to Temuchin the name of Genghis khan and the leaders are called Shan close to Khan ) the Mongols or the Huns or combined. But most likely the Mongols. The Main Character is will a young orphan at the starting and then finds out his Dad died bravely and strongly on the battle field. He lived in Castle Redmont as a ward. Wards lived In castle Redmont until they were 15 or so and then they could be chosen to be an apprentice to one of the craftmasters. Will had ward comrades: Horace, Jenny, Alyss and George. Horace got to be a Warrior apprentice , Jenny a cook apprentice, Alyss a Diplomat apprentice and George a scribe apprentice. But will , none of the official craftmasters wanted him. If no one would accept you as an apprentice you would have to go work as a farmer. But Will got excepted by Halt the fief's ( a place under control of a Baron and with his knights protected the Farmer. There were other Fief's and they all listened to the King of Arualen. This was where Will lived. The king's name was Duncan. ) Ranger. Rangers were a mystery to ordinary low ranking People. These people thought the did black magic. But what the Kings Rangers were and actually did was not his. The Rangers were an Elite scout team that were expert archers and knife throwers. They could spy on the enemy and see what they were doing. They were experts at moving without being seen and at tracking. Rangers were Rangers. They wore the Oak leaf to show that they were actual rangers. Bronze meant Apprentice and silver meant senior. Halt was a highly esteemed ranger he had lead the army when they beat Morgarath and evil villain. But he still existed. Anyway Will spent hour after hour day after day training with is Bow and knives. He also practiced Camouflage ( Rangers wore Ranger clocks , green and gray things ) keeping unseen, tracking and reading maps. Once Will , Halt, Horace and some Knights went Boar hunting. There were 2 boars but the y thought there was only one. After the first one had been killed the second dashed at Will. Will dived , Rolled , jumped and shot arrows at it. But this boar could not be killed unless an arrow hit his heart. Will missed every time and was just about to be killed when Halt shot it right in the heart killing it. After this Will went on to Kill a Kalkalra a (fearsome enemy that was only scared of fire . These Kalkara were enlisted by Morgarath the evil lord who goes on to almost beat the Araluen army with his army of Wargals. Also fearsome enemies ( their weakness being Calvary ) , but not as strong as the kalkara. These Kalkara were assassins . The hypnotized anyone close to them and then could kill them. ) by shooting a flaming arrow at it burning it. Will also burned a bridge that was vital to the Araluen win at the Plains of Uthal.
Below you can read some of the actual History.
Recent science
I have been learning a lot about chemistry. You can see half of some of the stuff I learned here here and here. I will be coming up with the second half soon with stuff about Biochemistry, pH ,acids, bases Nuclear chemistry and much more. I also have been learning some cool facts at Joppa flatts , like how to tell a green crab from an Asian shore crab,Sea stars have a brain at each foot, Sea urchins and sea stars are both Echinoderms (phylum) and are related and Moon snails eat other smaller snails called periwinkles by wrapping themselves around them, dropping acid , drilling a hole through them and sucking them up! Another cool fact is that sea stars eat with their stomachs. You can read more about Joppa flats in the Other things/joppa flats section of this post.
Fast fact!
Saturn had the most moons, At least 25. While Venus has no moons.
Recent History and Recent Geography
History
I have not been doing much on History recently besides the world cup. I am going to publish the blog: Some History ( I changed World History since 1300 to this ), that includes The Huns,Vikings,Goths and Mongols; Early medieval Japan,Korea and China;Summary of the Story of the World 1,2,3 and 4 and more! Here are some sneak peaks.
Huns,Vikings,Goths and Mongols
here is a link to the downfall of Rome, I wrote last year, it has some information on the Huns and Goths.
Huns:
In the late 300's the Huns attacked Europe from western Asia, east of Europe. Eastern Europeans/Romans were terrified of them. The Huns raided and destroyed settlements. To make themselves even scarier than they were they slashed their faces( ouch ), And wore weird ragged clothes. The Huns were nomads ( people who moved from place to place always setting and taking down tents. They had no home. ) and expert horsemen.
#2 Rich leaders of the Huns wore jewelry to show they were rich. One jewelry item was the fibula , The Fibula was like a pin , it was usually made out of gold and had gems in them.
Vikings:
The Vikings started in 793 and ended in 1066 ( this period is called the viking age ). The vikings came from Scandinavia, a region in Northern Europe that includes Norway,Denmark,Sweden and Finland ( not to many vikings in Finland though ). The Vikings were fearsome war crazy raiders. They were also explores( expert navigators) and amazing shipbuilders. The vikings traded,Explored,Raided and Colonized many places
Raiding and wars
The first viking raid ( outside Scandinavia ) was against England. England was raided by Vikings from Denmark. They raided a monastery called St. Cuthbert's monastery off the eastern coast of England. The day it happened was the start of the viking age 7/19/793 AD.
Peaceful life and Exploration
Back at home in Scandinavia they led mostly non warlike lives ( but they did fight and raid each other ever so often ). They lived in houses with large central rooms made out of wood. They had a hole in the roof for the smoke from a fire, that burned inside the house ( to give light for these houses rarely had windows. It was probably also used for cooking) to go out.
Goths:
Mongols:
Early medieval Japan,Korea and China
Around the 500's Japan was divided into many different clans. One of these Clans , the Yamato Clan, was stronger than the others. The Yamato clan wanted to conquer the other clans and rule Japan.
Geography
I have been doing postcrossing. In this you send and receive postcards to and from other countries. I have recieved 7 ( Germany, Australia, Canada, Russia, Finland and other places) post cards and have sent 5(Russia,China, Germany, USA, Belarus/Russia ). I also have been doing stack the states and stack the countries. I think we have beat them. I made a flag map some months ago, you can see it here.
Recent Math
I have been doing Khan academy for math here is an update for all the math I have been doing.
I put a progresses report here and it keeps going away
I am 3 skills away from mastering 5th grade. The recently added a lot of things for early math. This is preschool,kindergarten,1st grade and 2nd grade. You see though it shows that I have not mastered some of it. I don't think I should bother with things I already know and should keep learning( and believe me I know early math ).
Other Things
Joppa Flats
I recently joined the Joppa flatts staff as a volunteer. Here I clean caterpillar cages, Help people with crafts, Talk to them and help them hold creatures in the touch tank and other things. I like it there, I usually stay from around 9:00 to around 3:00. Then I come home. Joppa flats teaches you all about Sea creatures and many other things in science.
How to train your dragon 2
This was a great movie minus a few things
Soccer
Recent art and Music
Sources: Barbarians, The story of the world voulume 4 and 3, Wikipedia, Myself, Khan academy and Rangers Apprentice and Brainpop
Recent reading
Recently I have read the Hero's guide series. Book's 1,2 and 3. Here is some stuff about book 1: This series is made around making fun of Prince charming and some fairy tails. It changes them and combines them into an crazy and funny series. This book introduces the characters and tells us the real names of the prince's charming. Liam,Gustav,Duncan and Frederic. Liam is the Prince charming from Sleeping beauty, Gustav from Rapunzel, Duncan from snow white and Frederic from Cinderella.
I also have been reading the Rangers apprentice series. Its a series placed in medieval fantasy land of Araluen, Scandia Teutland, Gallica , Temujai , Celtia and more. These countries and people's probably are based on real modern day countries. Araluen probably being England ( I don't see any name reason here but i think it is england beacuse of the Longbows and some other things ) , Scandia most likely being Scandinavia( you can see the oblivious name reason here), Teutlandt probably Germany ( the name reason is probably from the Teutonic knights and Deutschland ,see how it ends with land? ), Gallica might be France ( Here it is most likely because of the Gauls )and Temujai ( I can not really see the name reason here besides it is Asian. But I think it is the mongols because the guy who started the Temujai is called something close to Temuchin the name of Genghis khan and the leaders are called Shan close to Khan ) the Mongols or the Huns or combined. But most likely the Mongols. The Main Character is will a young orphan at the starting and then finds out his Dad died bravely and strongly on the battle field. He lived in Castle Redmont as a ward. Wards lived In castle Redmont until they were 15 or so and then they could be chosen to be an apprentice to one of the craftmasters. Will had ward comrades: Horace, Jenny, Alyss and George. Horace got to be a Warrior apprentice , Jenny a cook apprentice, Alyss a Diplomat apprentice and George a scribe apprentice. But will , none of the official craftmasters wanted him. If no one would accept you as an apprentice you would have to go work as a farmer. But Will got excepted by Halt the fief's ( a place under control of a Baron and with his knights protected the Farmer. There were other Fief's and they all listened to the King of Arualen. This was where Will lived. The king's name was Duncan. ) Ranger. Rangers were a mystery to ordinary low ranking People. These people thought the did black magic. But what the Kings Rangers were and actually did was not his. The Rangers were an Elite scout team that were expert archers and knife throwers. They could spy on the enemy and see what they were doing. They were experts at moving without being seen and at tracking. Rangers were Rangers. They wore the Oak leaf to show that they were actual rangers. Bronze meant Apprentice and silver meant senior. Halt was a highly esteemed ranger he had lead the army when they beat Morgarath and evil villain. But he still existed. Anyway Will spent hour after hour day after day training with is Bow and knives. He also practiced Camouflage ( Rangers wore Ranger clocks , green and gray things ) keeping unseen, tracking and reading maps. Once Will , Halt, Horace and some Knights went Boar hunting. There were 2 boars but the y thought there was only one. After the first one had been killed the second dashed at Will. Will dived , Rolled , jumped and shot arrows at it. But this boar could not be killed unless an arrow hit his heart. Will missed every time and was just about to be killed when Halt shot it right in the heart killing it. After this Will went on to Kill a Kalkalra a (fearsome enemy that was only scared of fire . These Kalkara were enlisted by Morgarath the evil lord who goes on to almost beat the Araluen army with his army of Wargals. Also fearsome enemies ( their weakness being Calvary ) , but not as strong as the kalkara. These Kalkara were assassins . The hypnotized anyone close to them and then could kill them. ) by shooting a flaming arrow at it burning it. Will also burned a bridge that was vital to the Araluen win at the Plains of Uthal.
Below you can read some of the actual History.
Recent science
I have been learning a lot about chemistry. You can see half of some of the stuff I learned here here and here. I will be coming up with the second half soon with stuff about Biochemistry, pH ,acids, bases Nuclear chemistry and much more. I also have been learning some cool facts at Joppa flatts , like how to tell a green crab from an Asian shore crab,Sea stars have a brain at each foot, Sea urchins and sea stars are both Echinoderms (phylum) and are related and Moon snails eat other smaller snails called periwinkles by wrapping themselves around them, dropping acid , drilling a hole through them and sucking them up! Another cool fact is that sea stars eat with their stomachs. You can read more about Joppa flats in the Other things/joppa flats section of this post.
Fast fact!
Saturn had the most moons, At least 25. While Venus has no moons.
Recent History and Recent Geography
History
I have not been doing much on History recently besides the world cup. I am going to publish the blog: Some History ( I changed World History since 1300 to this ), that includes The Huns,Vikings,Goths and Mongols; Early medieval Japan,Korea and China;Summary of the Story of the World 1,2,3 and 4 and more! Here are some sneak peaks.
Huns,Vikings,Goths and Mongols
here is a link to the downfall of Rome, I wrote last year, it has some information on the Huns and Goths.
Huns:
In the late 300's the Huns attacked Europe from western Asia, east of Europe. Eastern Europeans/Romans were terrified of them. The Huns raided and destroyed settlements. To make themselves even scarier than they were they slashed their faces( ouch ), And wore weird ragged clothes. The Huns were nomads ( people who moved from place to place always setting and taking down tents. They had no home. ) and expert horsemen.
#2 Rich leaders of the Huns wore jewelry to show they were rich. One jewelry item was the fibula , The Fibula was like a pin , it was usually made out of gold and had gems in them.
Vikings:
The Vikings started in 793 and ended in 1066 ( this period is called the viking age ). The vikings came from Scandinavia, a region in Northern Europe that includes Norway,Denmark,Sweden and Finland ( not to many vikings in Finland though ). The Vikings were fearsome war crazy raiders. They were also explores( expert navigators) and amazing shipbuilders. The vikings traded,Explored,Raided and Colonized many places
Raiding and wars
The first viking raid ( outside Scandinavia ) was against England. England was raided by Vikings from Denmark. They raided a monastery called St. Cuthbert's monastery off the eastern coast of England. The day it happened was the start of the viking age 7/19/793 AD.
Peaceful life and Exploration
Back at home in Scandinavia they led mostly non warlike lives ( but they did fight and raid each other ever so often ). They lived in houses with large central rooms made out of wood. They had a hole in the roof for the smoke from a fire, that burned inside the house ( to give light for these houses rarely had windows. It was probably also used for cooking) to go out.
Goths:
Mongols:
Early medieval Japan,Korea and China
Around the 500's Japan was divided into many different clans. One of these Clans , the Yamato Clan, was stronger than the others. The Yamato clan wanted to conquer the other clans and rule Japan.
Geography
I have been doing postcrossing. In this you send and receive postcards to and from other countries. I have recieved 7 ( Germany, Australia, Canada, Russia, Finland and other places) post cards and have sent 5(Russia,China, Germany, USA, Belarus/Russia ). I also have been doing stack the states and stack the countries. I think we have beat them. I made a flag map some months ago, you can see it here.
Recent Math
I have been doing Khan academy for math here is an update for all the math I have been doing.
I put a progresses report here and it keeps going away
I am 3 skills away from mastering 5th grade. The recently added a lot of things for early math. This is preschool,kindergarten,1st grade and 2nd grade. You see though it shows that I have not mastered some of it. I don't think I should bother with things I already know and should keep learning( and believe me I know early math ).
Other Things
Joppa Flats
I recently joined the Joppa flatts staff as a volunteer. Here I clean caterpillar cages, Help people with crafts, Talk to them and help them hold creatures in the touch tank and other things. I like it there, I usually stay from around 9:00 to around 3:00. Then I come home. Joppa flats teaches you all about Sea creatures and many other things in science.
How to train your dragon 2
This was a great movie minus a few things
Soccer
Recent art and Music
Sources: Barbarians, The story of the world voulume 4 and 3, Wikipedia, Myself, Khan academy and Rangers Apprentice and Brainpop
Friday, March 21, 2014
Uhtred the Bold of Northumbria
Uhtred was the Earl of Northumbria. Me and my family are related to him. We are also related to many kings of England. Their descendants took ships to America. When Uhtred's father (Waltheof I) was still earl the Scots Attacked Northumbria. The king of England ( Ethelred )could not send help to Northumbria because the Danes were attacking southern England. Waltheof I was weak so he could not go fight the Scots. So his son Uhtred went out and gathered his army. Then he went and beat the Scots. Ethelred was so happy with him he made him Earl even though his father was still alive. After a while Sweyn of Denmark attacked England and took it over. Uhtred was under Danish rule. Sweyn became king when he exiled Ethelred to Normandy. Sweyn died soon after he became king of England. Ethelred came back and ruled England again. Uhtred became his Friend again. Uhtred went to take over some shire's close by with the prince Edmund II. But while he was Away one of his places got attacked by Cnut of Denmark. He gave him money and called him king of England because his army was to strong. Cnut told him to come to a meeting.Uhtred went on his way with some men. But he was attacked and he and some of his party was killed by Thurbrand. Uhtred was succeeded by Eadwulf his brother. Cnut took some of Northumbria by putting a Scandinavian leader on that part. Uhtred and Thurbands Descendants killed each other back and forth. Uthred's son killed Thurband and so on. There were many blood feuds like this back then in northern Europe.
sources: wiki
sources: wiki
Monday, March 17, 2014
The viking sword and Exploration
The Viking sword +ULFBERH+T
We recently learned about the +ULFBERH+T sword. It is a sword that has crucible steel in it. It is a steel that has very few dots and slags as they call them in it. It is better then other steel of its time. To make it you would have to heat the iron and coal to a very high temperature, and in Europe it seemed that no one could do it. But in the middle east there was swords made with crucible steel. This means that the Vikings must have gone to there and got the Crucible steel. Historians think that they went on the Volga trade route. This is a route from Sweden to Iran it is mostly on water. It goes along the Volga river and lakes. Then it goes to the Caspian sea and past it into modern-day Iran and Iraq. Vikings might have got Crucible steel from here. I think they did and so do others. Then they would have gone back to Scandinavia in small rowboats. There they would shape the steel into the sword. But the inscription of +ULFBERH+T is still a mystery. No one knows who Ulfberht was. Christian Abbots and Popes put a cross in front of their name. Maybe this was a Christian Abbot who had made it. But the Christians were forbidden to Trade with the Pagan Vikings. Maybe a Christan viking had made it. Or maybe just a Viking had made it. Or it was a brand name. But it showed that the sword was made with Crucible steel. Other Ulfberht swords were made but they did not have Crucible steel in them. They were fakes. They had the letters +ULFBERHT+ on them. Someone was trying to copy +ULFBERH+T. If you had a +ULFBERH+T sword you would be highly honored as a great and rich warrior. +ULFBERH+T Swords were like the best kind of weapons.
Exploration
The Vikings who originated in Scandinavia, explored from North America to Pakistan.
They were great explores on sea. They were not the best on land though. Proof that they had gone to North America and Pakistan is real. A viking ruins was found in North America and Statues of Buddha were found in Viking graves. The Vikings also went to Greenland, Iceland, Newfoundland, Israel, Constantinople, Italy, Spain, Morocco, Russia, France, England, Ireland,Greece, Iraq and Iran. Like you probably know Vikings did not have horns on their helmets and there are also peaceful and economic vikings.
We recently learned about the +ULFBERH+T sword. It is a sword that has crucible steel in it. It is a steel that has very few dots and slags as they call them in it. It is better then other steel of its time. To make it you would have to heat the iron and coal to a very high temperature, and in Europe it seemed that no one could do it. But in the middle east there was swords made with crucible steel. This means that the Vikings must have gone to there and got the Crucible steel. Historians think that they went on the Volga trade route. This is a route from Sweden to Iran it is mostly on water. It goes along the Volga river and lakes. Then it goes to the Caspian sea and past it into modern-day Iran and Iraq. Vikings might have got Crucible steel from here. I think they did and so do others. Then they would have gone back to Scandinavia in small rowboats. There they would shape the steel into the sword. But the inscription of +ULFBERH+T is still a mystery. No one knows who Ulfberht was. Christian Abbots and Popes put a cross in front of their name. Maybe this was a Christian Abbot who had made it. But the Christians were forbidden to Trade with the Pagan Vikings. Maybe a Christan viking had made it. Or maybe just a Viking had made it. Or it was a brand name. But it showed that the sword was made with Crucible steel. Other Ulfberht swords were made but they did not have Crucible steel in them. They were fakes. They had the letters +ULFBERHT+ on them. Someone was trying to copy +ULFBERH+T. If you had a +ULFBERH+T sword you would be highly honored as a great and rich warrior. +ULFBERH+T Swords were like the best kind of weapons.
Exploration
The Vikings who originated in Scandinavia, explored from North America to Pakistan.
They were great explores on sea. They were not the best on land though. Proof that they had gone to North America and Pakistan is real. A viking ruins was found in North America and Statues of Buddha were found in Viking graves. The Vikings also went to Greenland, Iceland, Newfoundland, Israel, Constantinople, Italy, Spain, Morocco, Russia, France, England, Ireland,Greece, Iraq and Iran. Like you probably know Vikings did not have horns on their helmets and there are also peaceful and economic vikings.
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
A Made Up Legend And A Poem
The Guardians of The Misty Island
One day long long ago a fodragobear ( a mix between a fox a dragon and a bear ) was walking along in its forest habitat when it saw a group of geese flying east.It asked the geese where they were heading. The geese honked back a reply " to the Misty island. " " wheres that ?" asked the fodragobear. " in Sweden. Some men who lived there give us food to stack up for the flight south in the fall." Honked the geese. " bye now HONK!!"and with that the geese flew away east ( they were in Scotland ). The Misty Island, Sweden sounded like a good place . So the fodragobear flew away east with his dragon wings . On his way to the misty island he saw many Scottish people . As he flew overhead the Scottish they yelled " A'ch the'r go's th' fod'agobea'Aye'!" When the fodragobear came across Loch Ness he hailed his friend, The Loch Ness monster or Nessie' fe'r short. " whe' yo' be ahe'din' ?" asked Nessie'. " ta Sweden !" replied the fodragobear. And with that he flew off to Sweden. When he got to Norway he knew he was almost there . He saw the vikings preparing to raid the English coast. When he at last made it to Sweden , he landed . When he found an elk he asked it where the misty island was. The elk said it was a bit farther north . The fodragobear flew there and found the Misty island. When he Landed close to the human village he saw the geese getting fed.
But when the humans saw the fodragobear the ran back inside their huts to get armed. The fodragobear
tried to tell them he just wanted food but the humans can't understand fodragobearian. Most of the humans charged him but one named Gustav Goldbeard jumped on the fodragobear back and flew off with him into the sun. Gustav Goldbeard was a Man with a Battle axe , a blonde beard and mustache. He had a iron cap on and was wearing brown cloth kilt and shirt. He had chain mail under his kilt and shirt. Gustav Goldbeard quickly befriended the fodragobear calling him krigare which means warrior in Swedish. They came back to the misty Island and quickly became famous . They protected the misty Island from invaders.
That is how they became known as the guardians of the Misty Island.
A Poem
Poem 1
sea and wind against the Scottish shore
Sea a'n wi'n againts th' scottish sho'e
The raging wind and the sly water
fiercely fight the rocky coast. The
coast will die , But now it stands
firm and strong at the most. They
fight in the laughing moonlight of day.
Poem 2
The Swedish Battle.
In the Singing sun of
a new day. Armies
advance. Then all in
one they cry their
battle cry. The armies
thunder across the
forest . The axes
and swords swinging
up and down. the
raging battle goes
on till Night swallows
it up. The battle
ends by the traces
of the moonlight.
One day long long ago a fodragobear ( a mix between a fox a dragon and a bear ) was walking along in its forest habitat when it saw a group of geese flying east.It asked the geese where they were heading. The geese honked back a reply " to the Misty island. " " wheres that ?" asked the fodragobear. " in Sweden. Some men who lived there give us food to stack up for the flight south in the fall." Honked the geese. " bye now HONK!!"and with that the geese flew away east ( they were in Scotland ). The Misty Island, Sweden sounded like a good place . So the fodragobear flew away east with his dragon wings . On his way to the misty island he saw many Scottish people . As he flew overhead the Scottish they yelled " A'ch the'r go's th' fod'agobea'Aye'!" When the fodragobear came across Loch Ness he hailed his friend, The Loch Ness monster or Nessie' fe'r short. " whe' yo' be ahe'din' ?" asked Nessie'. " ta Sweden !" replied the fodragobear. And with that he flew off to Sweden. When he got to Norway he knew he was almost there . He saw the vikings preparing to raid the English coast. When he at last made it to Sweden , he landed . When he found an elk he asked it where the misty island was. The elk said it was a bit farther north . The fodragobear flew there and found the Misty island. When he Landed close to the human village he saw the geese getting fed.
But when the humans saw the fodragobear the ran back inside their huts to get armed. The fodragobear
tried to tell them he just wanted food but the humans can't understand fodragobearian. Most of the humans charged him but one named Gustav Goldbeard jumped on the fodragobear back and flew off with him into the sun. Gustav Goldbeard was a Man with a Battle axe , a blonde beard and mustache. He had a iron cap on and was wearing brown cloth kilt and shirt. He had chain mail under his kilt and shirt. Gustav Goldbeard quickly befriended the fodragobear calling him krigare which means warrior in Swedish. They came back to the misty Island and quickly became famous . They protected the misty Island from invaders.
That is how they became known as the guardians of the Misty Island.
A Poem
Poem 1
sea and wind against the Scottish shore
Sea a'n wi'n againts th' scottish sho'e
The raging wind and the sly water
fiercely fight the rocky coast. The
coast will die , But now it stands
firm and strong at the most. They
fight in the laughing moonlight of day.
Poem 2
The Swedish Battle.
In the Singing sun of
a new day. Armies
advance. Then all in
one they cry their
battle cry. The armies
thunder across the
forest . The axes
and swords swinging
up and down. the
raging battle goes
on till Night swallows
it up. The battle
ends by the traces
of the moonlight.
Monday, July 23, 2012
The Normans
The Normans were Vikings. The Vikings attacked France but when Charlemagne was king of France the Viking’s attacks were unsuccessful. When Charlemagne died the Viking’s raided and raided and raided until the French gave them some land in turn for protection from other Viking’s. When other Viking’s came the Viking’s in France defended the French. After some time the Viking’s in France settled, converted to Christianity and became Normans. The first Norman king was Rollo the king after him (Richard the fearless) spent a lot of time fighting off the French but at last there was peace. And one Norman king set off on a journey to Jerulasam called a pilgrimage and died on the way back to Normandy. All he left behind was a 8year old William. It was hard for William to become king. He had many strong enemy’s the strongest was guy of burgundy he had allies to his strongest ally was a bishop a leader of a church but when the bishop died guy of burgundy took over . William fled to France and henry the king of France welcomed him and helped him by attacking Normandy with his forces after guy of burgundy died in a battle against the French William became king but he called himself duchy of Normandy. William looked over the seas toward England. He wanted to conquer England because Edward the confessor was close to death and had no heir. William was a distant cousin of Harold Godwinson the heir chosen by Edward Harold was not related to Edward at all but he was a good choice. One day Harold was in a boat and a storm blew him to the shore of Normandy and wrecked his ship there when William heard the news he was happy. What luck! he and a troop of soldiers ran to the shores to meet Harold William brought him to one of his castles and treated him kindly & gave him a feast when the feast was done William took the table cloth and reviled bones of saints he made Harold swear an oath on them swearing on bones of saints was considered sacred . The oath was to say that William was the rightful heir to throne when Edward died. Harold swear it because he was in Williams’s castle and did not want to get captive or killed. William set Harold on his way with a new ship. When Edward died Harold did not keep his promise and he was crowned king on his crowning day Haley’s comet was in view of the earth and many said that it as a bad omen because Harold did not keep his oath. Harald Hardarda of Norway attacked England and conquered a few cites he took hostages and decided to exchange his prisoners for gold so he and a few other men with no armor because it was so hot they weard skins instead when they came a bridge were they were supposed to get the gold but when they came the whole English army marched on the bridge Harald Hardada sent two riders to his ships were the rest of the army was when the riders came to the ship they called everyone to come and help fight but when they set off most took their armor off and walked there those who didn’t died because it was so hot for Viking’s
and the battle of Stamford bridge was utter defeat for Harald Hardada and he died . when the English defeated the Viking’s the Normans attacked at the south the Vikings had attacked from the north so Harold’s army had to march all the way south and when he got there his army was exhausted and camped on a hill near the Norman’s camp the William decided to attack and that was the battle of Hastings in the battle the English made a wall of swordsmen on the top of the hill and the Norman’s charged with Calvary the Norman’s were winning. When suddenly some swordsmen from the wall of swordsmen charged and destroyed a lot of the Calvary and made William fall of his horse all the Normans thought he was dead and were about to give up when William got up and said he was alive then the Normans fought stronger and at last the Normans won and Harold died after that it was easy to conquer the other cites because there was not a king and the Normans conquered England. Williams conquer of England earned him the name William the conquer .the Danes attacked Norman-England and they did not conquer anything.
The Normans in Italy
the Norman Italians were mercenaries byzantine mercenaries that attacked Italy under a byzantine general they conquered a lot of cites but when the general died the army fell apart and some Normans attacked Italy more and took it for themselves they conquered Sicily, Malta and part of north Africa the first Italy Norman king was William iron arm there greatest leader was Robert Guiscard he maintained all those lands at the same time! After him all the Italian barons revolted because a new king had power over them now a Sicilian king his name Roger. Germany and byzantine banded together and called aid from the pope in Rome he helped the anti-Norman army attack the Normans. Under Rogers control they were beat. Roger did not attack and did not do one open battle at all. He waited and waited let the summer sun, bugs and revolts in Germany and byzantine make the German byzantine army go away without them the pope was powerless he signed a peace treaty with roger and went back to Rome . Roger had defeated his enemies without bloodshed! He was a wise king but after him Norman Italy fell apart Malta and north Africa were conquered by Arabs and the barons in Italy revolted and revolted and the Byzantine ,German army attacked again and the Normans in Italy were conquered .
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