some cool pictures of a norse god

[Vimara]

thats right everyones favorite "Thor". i bet a lot of certian people are going to be masturbating to these pics now and most of you know which ones im talking about. hahahaha.anyway still cool

[Melnorme]

Replica of statuette of Thor that was found in Iceland and dated to about 1000 AD :

[Marina]

Iberian said:

i bet a lot of certian people are going to be masturbating to these pics now and most of you know which ones im talking about.

Who were you referring to, anyway? ;D

I think I *might* have an idea - (based on who's got a fetish for Conan the Barbarian!)

[AWAR]

ROFL@Marina ;D

I like Conan as a character, but some people are driving this obsession too far. After all, there is a possibility that his real name was Coen the Barbarian ;D

[Tautalos]

Conan is quite interesting, in his essence: a fantasy character based on Celtic culture - Conan is an Irish Celtic name, as well as the tribal Gods and Goddesses that he mention in his stories: Crom (Cruaich), Morrigan, Mannanan, Macha, Nemain, as well as his physical type (according a given theory, quite widespreaded, the Celtic type was dark skinned, black-haired and blue-eyed). Also, the slaughters of his family, the clan of Diarmuid, have an Irish name.

Nevertheless, his stories are too American, in a way: in most of the times, he search for food and treasures, but, being an honest guy, he helps the goods against the bad ones and usually end up making justice.

So, basically, Conan behaves like a cowboy with a sword.

[Marina]

AWAR said:

ROFL@Marina ;D

I like Conan as a character, but some people are driving this obsession too far. After all, there is a possibility that his real name was Coen the Barbarian ;D

Hehe. Yes, Nordhammer loves him.

The only Irishman I have a fetish for is Lawrence of Arabia (played by an Irishman.)

[HINDI]

o get outta here ;D

[Marina]

HINDI said:

o get outta here ;D

So you have a problem with Lawrence of Arabia? ;D

[AWAR]

Marina said:

So you have a problem with Lawrence of Arabia? ;D

Well, Lawrence..was gay.... y'know?

[caucasoid]

Tautalos said:

Conan is quite interesting, in his essence: a fantasy character based on Celtic culture - Conan is an Irish Celtic name, as well as the tribal Gods and Goddesses that he mention in his stories: Crom (Cruaich), Morrigan, Mannanan, Macha, Nemain, as well as his physical type (according a given theory, quite widespreaded, the Celtic type was dark skinned, black-haired and blue-eyed). Also, the slaughters of his family, the clan of Diarmuid, have an Irish name.

I thought he was a Cimmerian?

[AWAR]

caucasoid said:

I thought he was a Cimmerian?

That's what I thought too, but it turns out the author was ignorant on history ( an american ) so, he mixed-up Cimmerians with Cymru ( Welsh ). Oh well.....

[Marina]

AWAR said:

Well, Lawrence..was gay.... y'know?

I actually have heard of that... It makes me angry! It's propoganda, I tell you!

Anyway, here's an interesting article: www.firstworldwar.com/features/telawrence.htm

[Graeme]

Lawrence was Welsh and O'Toole was born in England.

[Marina]

Graeme said:

Lawrence was Welsh and O'Toole was born in England.

I thought O'Toole was born in Ireland and then moved to England...

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Anyway, this serves as pretty good evidence that Lawrence was not gay:

"Over the past few decades pop biographers, historians and gay activists have made an art form of deliberately misinterpreting biographical information on notable people to sell their otherwise repetitious tomes or push an agenda.

Any figure who remained unmarried, had close same sex friendships or acted in a way perceived flamboyant by modern standards is automatically presumed homosexual.

Evidence is not required, only innuendo, few figures escape sensational revisionism: Alexander the Great (356BC-323BC), Horatio Nelson (1758-1805), General Kitchener (1850-1916), Howard Carter (1837-1939) who discovered Tutankhamen's tomb, Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) and even the fictional Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson have been reclassified as homosexuals; whilst General Gordon (1833-1885) of Khartoum fame is recast a suspected paedophile for having helped homeless boys get off the streets of London; Prime Minister William Gladstone (1809-1898) recast a sexual deviant and Jack the Ripper suspect for having helped save woman from prostitution in 1888.

Few historic figures escape contemporary insinuation, T.E. Lawrence was one of the first casualties of it, the psychological after effects of having been brutally raped portrayed as sexual deviancy to sell books or justify someone else's modern lifestyle."

[Tautalos]

AWAR said:

That's what I thought too, but it turns out the author was ignorant on history ( an american ) so, he mixed-up Cimmerians with Cymru ( Welsh ). Oh well.....

I don't think that that is the case here.

What happens is that Conan's world is a fantasy based on History. I.e., his creator, Robert Erwin Howard, invented an ancient world that existed before the known History.
A map of Conan's world would show several nations who bear lots of resemblances with historic nations: there are Vanaheim, Asgard (kingdoms of two different families of Gods, in the Nordic Tradition), Hiperborea, Britúnia (western Germanics), Nemedia (idem - Nemed is also the name of a given mythic folk of Ireland), the land of the Picts, and also Argos (which would be the ancestors of... Greece), Aquilonia (the biggest empire of Conan's time, quite similar to Rome), Stygia (Egypt), Khithai (China), Hirkania (Iran), etc..

There was an historical folk named Cimmerian, which was of Iranian ethnicity, close related to the Scythians. There is a chance that the Celts were influenced by Scythes.... and thus, that could be the reason why R. E. Howard invented Conan's Cimmerians as being the ancestors of the historical Celts.