Vikings without blood lust wanted

MSNBC:"OSLO, Norway - Help wanted: Vikings. Must be friendly, tourist-oriented and interested in ancient Norse traditions. Crazed, bloodthirsty pillagers need not apply. In a rare employment opportunity for Vikings, whose job market peaked about 1,000 years ago when theyterrorized Europe in their longboats, southern Norway's Vestfold country is seeking to fill slots at its local historical park the ad, to appear in local media. The problem is that the last Vikings died about 1,000 years ago. So we have to make it like theater, and find people wanting to play Vikings, and learn their cooking, clothes customs and crafts. The center is seeking to play down the Scandinavian Vikings reputation as wild, murderous looters and rapists who pillaged and burned through much of Europe, was largely exaggerated in texts left by ancient English monks. They were really more traders and merchants. One thing tourists may expect, but will not see, Vikings with horns on their helmets. The helmets never had horns, a myth that developed centuries after the Viking era passed. Well this just blew history out the window!!"