Just when you thought you were safe from the bats carrying fire-bombs.
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
In your burning tight leather
you're a firebomb
The plan is worthy of Baldrick in its cunningness. The falcon is wearing false boobies so the crew of the U-boat will be distracted by the view through the periscope and will not notice the explosive-laden toy boat it is towing just below.
Just when you thought you were safe from the bats carrying fire-bombs.
Just when you thought you were safe from the bats carrying fire-bombs.
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Petrel bombs.
I am left fulmarnating.
This trick's older than Hardrada.
Petrel bombs.
Well played!
See, I could have mentioned the episode in Harald's Saga when Harald Harðráði used the firebomb-birds, but I refrained because SELF-CONTROL.
There is also Olga of Kiev, of course.
Somebody set up us the bird!
Hell pigeon needs a better haircut.
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ITTDGY (if that is his real name) has neglected to mention teh sweetest part of Hellpigeon story.
There is also Olga of Kiev, of course
So the Primary Chronicle was recorded about 1113, and predate Snorri Sturlason's description of Harald Hardrada's incendiary-bird-related activities by a century or so? I am disappoint.
Did Snorri have access to a copy of the Primary Chronicle from which to borrow stories and embroider his own novelisations? Wouldn't surprise me. Otherwise, the Google machine informs me that Hardrada was hanging around Kiev around 1040, in time to hear oral accounts of Olga's ruthless ingenuity. I can imagine him or his cronies latching onto the story and deciding to incorporate it into his own Don't-fuck-with-Harald propaganda.
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