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Some World Cup labels...

Discussion in 'Chit Chat' started by darkestknight, Jan 25, 2010.

  1. darkestknight

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    Since the World Cup is upcoming already, might as well as I need to satisfy my curiousity on this one.

    I often heard that the German players are labelled as "Panzers" (combat tanks in German?), but why the English "Vikings"? I thought the Scandinavian football teams are supposed to be labelled that one instead?

    Or, perhaps, England was once owned by Scandinavian people a long long time ago, hence that label?

    off topic: and on top of that, I noticed that some or half of the fantasy novels I've seen and read, does have some Scandinavian and Old English influence on it. It's just strange...
     
  2. pirateninja

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    Svennnn, Svennnn, Goran Erik-son. :slight_smile:

    Yup, before old Fabio, we had a Swede as our manager :lol:
     
  3. endless poetry

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    fyi if any thing Old Norse would have been the one influencing Old English

    and they're from the same Germanic language family just fyi.
     
  4. partietraumatic

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    ive actually never heard our football team labelled as Vikings tbh...
     
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    Same, and I do follow the football a fair bit.
    If we're called in the press, it'd be lions because of our emblem.
     
  6. Apocalypte

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    The French? Dirty rotten cheats. :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes: