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Old July 1st 05, 02:49 PM
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Terje Henriksen wrote:
Jim Howe wrote:
Ok, more off topic - Russian is a Slavic language. Nordic does not
refer to a language, rather a group of nothern european countries -
Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland (as well as a discipline
of skiing). Norwegian, Swedish, Danish (Icelandic) like English are
Germanic languages. Finnish is something completely different.


Icelandic comes from the old norwegian language, "Gammelnorsk". They didn=

't
change their language when the norwegian ppoulation changed to a more
danish-like during the union with Denmark.


No, Norwegian comes from the old Icelandic language that was spoken all
over the Nordic countries in the Viking times.
The Norwegian language all but disappeared but was resurrected from old
local dialects at the end of the 19th century as Nynorsk and from the
Danish language spoken in Christiania (Oslo) and other places in East
Norway as Bokm=E5l.
Icelandic remained more or less intact, the modern version of the Old
Icelandic (old Norse) language.

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Old July 2nd 05, 10:39 PM
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Terje Henriksen wrote:


Were not the swedish vikings asked to rule a part of Russia? I do
not think they conquerred the russians



ja. vikingarna från roslagen (norrtälje)

titta på
http://www.angelfire.com/empire/egfroth/rus.html

Part of Russia were inhabitated by lion people tribes about 12000 years ago.
Then they moved to the present Sweden area and some of them moved back again
later, as mentioned. Scandinavia and part of russia is populated by mostly
lion people.

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Terje Henriksen
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Old July 5th 05, 02:11 AM
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....in an attempt to return the discussion back to the original "tracks"
- here are excellent photos of skiers using the artificial classic
tracks:

http://skisport.ru/photos/view.php?v=2&uid=1680

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Old July 5th 05, 09:01 AM
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http://skisport.ru/photos/view.php?v=3D2&uid=3D1680

Curioux-looking, indeed! And, FWIW, Soviet/Russian scientists have a
reputation for being able to come up with inventions/novelties that
would perhaps never see the light of day anywhere else.

The glide comes from the silicon and the grip from the metal, possibly
with a little help from electricity - or is this a silly guess that
only someone completely unschooled in the natural and engineering
sciences would think of?

What do the people who=B4ve skied on it say - apart from pointing out
the obvious (=3D that 300m is a bit on the short side, if one wants to
keep relatively sane)?


FWIW in Finland the trend is for more ski tunnels of various designs:
http://www.skitunnelvuokatti.fi http://www.lumimaailma.com
http://www.vesileppis.fi http://www.kuntoputki.com are in operation and
3-5 more are in stages of planning.

The skiing extension is also being extended by building cooled track
circuits and storing cannon snow over the summer: for instance in
Kontiolahti the season will commence in October:
http://www.jaahdytettylatu.fi and there is a similar system in use in
Kuortane.


Anders

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Old July 5th 05, 04:48 PM
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Thank you, Anders; finally, a skier talk, not a boring lecture on
Nordic languages.
The .ru web site has quite a bit of feedback from people who used the
tracks. I'll post a summary tonight.

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Old July 5th 05, 06:58 PM
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Some amusing photos. I like this one:

http://skisport.ru/photos/picture.ph...id=2915&page=2

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Thank you, Anders; finally, a skier talk, not a boring lecture on
Nordic languages.
The .ru web site has quite a bit of feedback from people who used the
tracks. I'll post a summary tonight.



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Old July 5th 05, 09:22 PM
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...in an attempt to return the discussion back to the original "tracks"
- here are excellent photos of skiers using the artificial classic
tracks:

http://skisport.ru/photos/view.php?v=2&uid=1680

Its similar in profile to the flimsy plastic mesh tracks that
we had in England some years ago, think it came from Holland.
Ours would roll up so that a 50yard length could be carried in someones
car boot (trunk) and all the lengths could be linked together and pinned
to the grass on a school playing field somewhere for out meet.
If everyone turnedup with the roll they were looking after then we could
make a loop, but for tuition rather than training.

They ended their life at an outdoor pursuit centre in exactly the same
environment shown in the pic. The grassy centre between the wheel
tracks was levelled with sand to produce a smooth glide.
I seem to recall we got a better glide if the mesh surface was damped
with soapy water from the dishwasher!
Mike

 




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