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Old 01-23-2018, 11:34 PM   #1
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Jan 24th, 2018: Saint Olga of Kiev



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The Drevlian people of medieval Ukraine were happy and optimistic. They had just murdered Prince Igor of Kiev, regent of one of their enemies, the Kievan Rus, and had done so in grand fashion — by ripping him in half while still alive. The technique? Bend two birch trees to the ground, tie the victim’s legs to the trunks and then release the trees, which spring back to their original positions.
The Drevlians knew that Igor’s son, born just three years earlier, in 942, was too young to take the crown and that his beautiful mother, Princess Olga, was a demure noblewoman who would gladly marry their Prince Mal, thus expanding Drevlian territory.

Nope, Olga was a Varyag… aka Viking.



20 Drevlian negotiators boated down the Dnieper River to Kiev and appeared to seal the deal in their Sunday finery.
Olga had them thrown in a pit and buried alive.

Then she sent word to Price Mal to send a company of his best men to escort her to him.
She locked them in a bath house and burned it down.

Next she went to Dereva’s capital and threw a lavish banquet for the Drevlian soldiers.
When they were all drunk she had her men kill 5,000 of them.

For the coup de grace, she laid siege to the Capitol starving them into surrender.
Then demanded each household in the city bring three sparrows and three pigeons and had her men tie burning wicks to the birds legs.
The freaked birds flew home and burned down the whole damn city.
And I thought the WW II incendiary bats was original.

So how did she become a saint?

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Twelve years later, in 957, Olga visited Emperor Constantine VII in Constantinople, today’s Istanbul and then the capital of the Byzantine Empire. Smitten, Constantine asked her to convert to Christianity and rule with him as his queen. Olga agreed to convert, but apparently she wasn’t that into Constantine and resorted to her old wiles, asking him to stand as her godfather in baptism, which made the marriage indecent and therefore null and void.

Once home, Olga tried to convert her son, who was now king of Kievan Rus, but he refused. However, he agreed not to persecute those in his kingdom who did convert, which marked a crucial turning point for Christianity in Russia and its neighboring lands.
Women be tricksy, be careful out there.

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Old 01-24-2018, 09:27 AM   #2
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So fitting - I've been binge-watching Vikings for a week or so :-)
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Old 01-24-2018, 08:03 PM   #3
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Anyone feel like describing in greater detail how the birch tree thing works?
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Old 01-24-2018, 08:13 PM   #4
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When the red ropes are untied, the two trees will snap back to vertical, and the little dude will be yanked apart by the yellow ropes.
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Old 01-24-2018, 08:44 PM   #5
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Wait a minute, what's the end of that yellow rope on the right tied to?
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Old 01-24-2018, 09:27 PM   #6
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worse. one leg to each tree. I think?
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Old 01-24-2018, 09:52 PM   #7
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Yes, a leg to each tree ripping him apart starting at the crotch.
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Old 01-25-2018, 07:24 AM   #8
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As a kid I feel like there was often an old Johnny Weismuller Tarzan movie showing on a Saturday afternoon, and the natives were always catching some poor dude and executing him this way.
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Old 01-25-2018, 11:56 AM   #9
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Don't Google execution images.

Only one for this method:

http://c8.alamy.com/comp/AR8X4R/just...9th-AR8X4R.jpg
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Old 01-25-2018, 03:42 PM   #10
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Don't Google execution images.
Meh.

I've seen worse at Sunday School.
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That's great Clod!
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I know--not to brag, but I'm thinking of quitting my day job to become an artist.
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