Another was the 'Love of Trains'. Your AV10 thread was where I asked him not to do what he was doing. Then he did it again.
Too bad, but I have to confess his ad hominem attacks were a major disruption on the forum and so unnecessary when he had so much to contribute.
This is usually out of character for Scandinavians, but may be his blood line was from the Vikings who plundered England and had half the country under Danelaw, until Alfred the Great got the better of them.
But in the end it was brains over physical strength. Alfred started research at Chatham on the Medway, to develop sailing boats that could sail multiple directions of the wind, not just at the stern sail and not require oars. It was an outstanding success and the Viking long ships were no match for these new sailing ships.
The final battle took place at Tilbury. That ended the Danelaw.
That is a long way of saying that regretfully you made the right call.
