Up Helly Ah

[DEL]

How many sailors have breakfasted with vikings over the years.......earliest recorded evidence is to be found in
The Saga of Grim Shaggy-Cheek - Captain of HMS Gay Viking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Gay_Viking

I met her in a club down in Old Skerry Voe
Where you drink honeyed Mjöd and it tastes just like cherry cola
See-O-L-A cola.

She walked up to me and she asked me to dance.
I asked her name and in a dark brown voice she said, "Hjlola"
HJL-O-L-A Hjlola, lo lo lo lo HjLola

Well, I'm not dumb but I can't understand
Why she walk like a fljod and talk like a maðr
Oh my Hjlola, lo lo lo lo HjLola, lo lo lo lo Hjlola

Well, we drank honeyed Mjöd and danced all night,
Under old fish oil lamp light,
She picked me up and sat me on her knee,
And said, "Sailor boy won't you come home with me?"

The rest as they say is history

 

[Helm]

Del I'll have to see if I kept a copy of my Beowulf 2000 version

 

[Helm]

Found it
Beowulf 2000
Meanehwael, baccat meaddehaele / monstaer lurccen
Fulle few too many drincce / hie luccen for fyht.
Den Hreorfneorhtthhwr / son of Hewaerowthheororthwyl
Aesccen aeful jeork / to strop outsyd
Phud! Bashe! Crasch! Beoom! / De bigge gye
Eallum his bon brak / byt his nose offe
Wicced Godsylla / waeld on this asse
Monstaer moppe fleor wyth / eallum men in halle
Beowulf in bacceroome / fonecall bemaccen waes
Hearen sound fo ruccus / saed "Hwaet the helle?"
Graben sheold strang / ond swich-blaed shcharp
Stond forth to fyht / thr grimlic foe
"Me," Godsylla saed / "Mac the minsemete."
Heoro cwyc getten heold / with faemed half-nelson
Ond flyng him lic frisbe / bac to fen
Beowulf belly up / to meadehalle bar
Saed "Ne foe beaten / mie faersom cung-fu."
Eorderen cocca-colha / yce=cold, the reol thyng.

 

[billyturnip]

We weren't very fashion conscious in the Dead Fish Police Steve.
It would make a good vignette but someone would only get their knickers in a twist about the vikings having wings on their helmets or summat.

 

[DEL]

Found it
Beowulf 2000
Meanehwael, baccat meaddehaele / monstaer lurccen
Fulle few too many drincce / hie luccen for fyht.
Den Hreorfneorhtthhwr / son of Hewaerowthheororthwyl
Aesccen aeful jeork / to strop outsyd
Phud! Bashe! Crasch! Beoom! / De bigge gye ...........
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Just another Saturday night

 

[billyturnip]

HMS Gay Viking!!! and it was built by Camper & Nicholson, I bet they were!

 

[Helm]

We weren't very fashion conscious in the Dead Fish Police Steve.
It would make a good vignette but someone would only get their knickers in a twist about the vikings having wings on their helmets or summat.

Ah but now we have PICTURES so it must be true *nods wisely*

Steve

 

[Don]

Roger is it true that the fine Vikings of Shetland refuse to spend much time with the Fisheries Protection as you try to stop them raping and plundering?

 

[billyturnip]

We had a ceasefire for Up Helly Aa.

 

[Don]

A very clever thing to do as you were in their trap!

 

[billyturnip]

A very clever thing to do as you were in their trap!

Good an' proper.