[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#3594) viking.ruleset

["andrearo@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <andrearo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Gregory Berkolaiko wrote:
> > On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Ragnar Ouchterlony wrote:
> > On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, andrearo@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > I've updated viking.ruleset with natural city names, and added some
> > > cities and leaders.
> > > Any comments?
> >
> > I must say that this doesn't look like a Viking nation, but rather like a
> > Norwegian nation.
> >
> > If it really is the historical Vikings that should be in this nation, then
> > modern Norwegian prime ministers such as Jens Stoltenberg and Bondevik
> > shouldn't be there at all. Also, there should be Viking cities and rulers
> > from the Vikings that went to the east (into Russia and Constantinople and
> > even farther east) and not only from the Norwegian parts of Scandinavia.
>
> Yeah, I wouldn't mind seeing Rurik and maybe even Oleg and Igor among the
> Viking rules.
>
> G.

The current ruleset has two Norwegian rulers from the 20th century
(Gro and Haakon), but I agree that using viking era rulers only makes
more sense.

Andreas R