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The Viking (Entry 1395.IS3321)

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Is There a Norwegian Name?

There's nothing fake about scandinavian names. You couldn't, you couldn't fake them. A shipyard owner by the name of christian christianson owns a ship yard called the rids werven shipyard in sandfurd, norway. He commissions an accurate reconstruction of the gosta ship with the idea of a transatlantic voyage. They rebuild it like to scale, a perfect reconstruction. And he recruits a captain by thename of magnus anderson, who basically that's, that's like a heavy metal name, because all norwegian names are heavy metal. Is that right? I love that.

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