What history would you most love to visit?

[Lacedaemonian]

Thermopylae 480 BC. I would be dead within the week, but what a tremendous way to go out......

[Hypes]

Between 850 AD and 1000 AD with the vikings, more closely with the Birkebeinere as they make off with the future king of Norway, rescuing him from the Baglere.

Good times.

[Lacedaemonian]

They sound like glorious times Andreas.

[Hypes]

Marvellous times, they were.

Back then, the strawberries tasted strawberry, the women were voluptuous, and the swedes were all dead.

[I, Brian]

Actually, I thought the Swedes were vikings, too?

[Esioul]

I ought to know. The Vikings are one of my case studies this year, but somehow I've got left behind at Pompeii.. so much revision to do. I expect I was ill or something. All I know is they had a city at York with Steatite bowls in it and they had saddles and stirrups.

[I, Brian]

Ah, yes - the old Eberculaneum, wasn't it? The Roman regional capital of the north. Not too far where I live.

[Lacedaemonian]

I would love to be beside the crib of Jesus the Nazarite - how history could be changed. ....

[I, Brian]

I would so love to experience life in Rome during the Empire - especially the early 1st or early 2nd century AD.

[Lacedaemonian]

Oh that would be excellent! There is so much great history, I have not settled on a period or event yet... I would love to have seen Boudicca send those Romans packing.

[Hypes]

All of the Scandinav peoples were vikings at some point, but the Swedes forsake their viking traditions and moved into a system more akin to central-Europe, while the Danes were focused primarily on peaceful trade from early on.

The viking period of Norway didn't really end until about 60 years after the Christening in year 1000.

[Lacedaemonian]

I knew a Danish lad called Axel he was writing a fantasy novel of sorts...

The real vikings were the icelandic!!

Nazi Germany would be an interesting experience.

[Sage Orion]

I would love to go back to the time of the Gladiators!!

Ancient Rome would be great, from the beginning to the fall of the

Roman Empire!!

I would also love to go back to the time of the Samurai!!

Ancient Japan would be amazing, from the beginning to the war to

keep the sword of the Samurai at hand!!

Gladiator and The Last Samurai are my fav ancient eras and Movies!!

[polymorphikos]

Off prancing about with Tokugawa Ieyasu, eh? Maybe you could fidle with history so that the Emperor actually ruled.

As for Vikings, I always remembe a story about a bard with a taper from the Norns, and how he would live until it burnt out. Then the first christian king burnt it and he dropped dead. I'd like to own such a taper, and so i would go back, find Odin, and say "Look, mate, gimme the Norns or Frig gets it!" Then I would rule the universe! Failing that, i would just scare the hell out of Vikings for the fun of it.

[Inzilbêth]

I am a Viking.

*prepares to die*