"Blood for Odin!" Funny email

Forwarded form a friend-

A friend of a friend (of a friend - DCK) lives in NYC and participates in the SCA [Society for Creative Anachronism]. He's stereotypical Viking, 6'7" tall, LONG blonde hair, about 350 - 400 lbs of solid muscle, and looks every bit of it.

Well, he was going to a meet in full getup with long cloak and battle axe and sitting on the subway... hunched over leaning on the axe with the cloak pulled over it so he wouldn't scare anybody.

Lo and behold some little punk comes up... MAYBE 5'2", 120 lbs soaking wet, and brandishes a knife saying "GIMME YOUR MONEY!"
Naturally the guy sits there... somewhat befuddled at the balls of this punk. "GIMME YOUR *bleepin* MONEY OR ELSE!" and the guy stands up... and up... and UP. Raising the battle axe over hishead, screaming at the top of his lungs "BLOOD FOR ODIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"


At this point, the fellow passengers learn the true sound of terror. Not a scream, no curses, just a simple little "urk" as the guy leaves a wet spot as he's bolting for anywhere but here.

A couple weeks later our friend is at a club in the men's room, doing what all guys do when they've had a bit of ale, and looks over and at the next stall is that SAME PUNK! Up for a bit of a laugh, the guy leans over, and quietly whispers in the dude's ear "Blood for Odin".

The cops catch up with him a couple blocks away... screaming bloody murder, running like the hounds of hell are after him, with his pants around his ankles.

Well, Its not a rapier and dagger, but I think it will do...

Hah! Crazy.

If I had some form of beverage it would be over my computer. LMDAO!

LOL

[slappy squirrel] now that's comedy. [/slappy]

That's about the funniest thing I've seen on these boards.

hehehehe

That's great.

I heard a different version of this 10 or 15 years ago from an SCA member. It's been a while, so this might be a little fuzzy.

Anyway, in that version the guy was supposedly jogging in Central Park wearing chainmail under his jogging suit because the weight would help him get into shape or something like that. Anyway, the robber steps out with the knife and tries to rob him. Things progress with the robber threatening to stab him if he doesn't turn over his money and the guy refusing. The robber gets impatient and decides to follow through and stabs, but his knife hits the mail and the tip breaks off. While the robber is staring at the broken tip of his knife, the SCA guy gets a big grin and screams "BLOOD FOR ODIN!" like a viking berserker causing the would-be robber to flee in terror.

Later on, the guy spots the robber as he's heading into a public restroom, so he follows him in. He identifies which stall he's in, waits until he has had a chance to get "settled" and then goes into the next stall. At that point, he starts beating his fists on the wall of the stall the guy is in and screaming "BLOOD FOR ODIN!" at the top of his lungs. The robber then bolts from that restroom as fast as he can with his pants around his ankles screaming in terror.

I don't know if it's true, but that's how I heard it.

Oh! And in the version I heard the SCA guy was described as not being the most stable of individuals...

Interesting story. Sounds like a classic urban legend though "friend of a friend" and all that. Not saying that it wasn't true at some point, but it's shaping up to be an Urban Legend.

SNOPES doesn't have anything on this one. Maybe I could submit it to have them investigate it.