A nomad a vagabond or a viking?

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mortenhs
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A nomad a vagabond or a viking? I like to travel.
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I have visited more 13 or 14 countries. I have seen more of the world than most people do in a lifetime. I feel at home many places and I believe I can live most places. My longest stay is the almost 1.5 years in the Philippines my shortest stay apart from airports was 2 days in Malaysia.

A nomad is a person that changes the home often. Lives different places often according to the season. This is a lifestyle. The nomad feels free because home is where the nomad chooses it to be. The nomad often has a routine way of travelling and places to visit each year.

A vagabond is a person that chooses to drift wherever the wind(hangin) takes that person. Home is the road or the people the vagabond meets on the way. A vagabond might travel far and the route is to be determined along the way. Since a avagbond relies on the feet they rarely leave the mainland.

My home country Norways finest the vikings are warriors, explorers and conquerers. They travel far to plunder gold, slaves and women. They travel to find land to settle and to build their own place. Some return to their native country and some stay for a lifetime in their new place. Vikings like the sea and rough wind(hangin) is their company. They are brave and does whatever it takes to reach their destination. They are great warriors who protect and serve loyally those people that are important to them.

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ohwell
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I like those distinctions - Im a nomad.

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xinloi
xinloi

Why is it that everytime I meet someone from the Asian countries of Scandanavia and ask they why there are no more Vikings, they just start stutterring and don't give an answer? Ever listen to Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner? What happened that turned your men into wimps?

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wayworn1
wayworn1

Ummm, maybe it's because Rape,Pillage and Murder have gone out of fashion xinloi.

As for Nomads, the closest thing today (other than real nomads such as still live on the Steppes) is probably the Canadian Snowbirds. They spend 7 months up north in the Canadian summer and 5 months down south in the US during winter (Florida, Arizona, etc.) for warm weather. Nomading is basically a seasonal movement.

Vagabonding would apply to someone who moves from country to country over time. Which is the category some posters like WorkingNOMAD for example would fall into. The problem is the word Vagabond doesn't have the same connotation as Nomad. Somehow Nomad sounds OK while Vagabond sounds like a bum.

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xinloi
xinloi

Actually I think all 3 definitions imply one does not lower oneself to "work". That's for mere peasants.

Vikings have fun and go to Valhalla

Nomads are grass eating wanderers--not smart enuff to eat meat.

Vagabond--Smart, carniverous, crack head Nomad.

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satchie
satchie

Both nomads and Vikings travelled in groups - Nomads as a tribe, Vikings as a sort of gang. I don't think either word can apply to a single traveller - that's a vagabond.

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anonymous
anonymous

I am a Nomad not a Vagabond.

There is a big difference (approx $5000 / $6000 a month) between me (a modern technomad) and some scruffy washed up vagabond bum who lives in Koh Sarn Road!

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xinloi
xinloi

Only difference is money--and what is that in the long run? When you die no one will ask how much money you made... but the Gods will ask what was your body count total---be a Viking.

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wayworn1
wayworn1

LOL I knew that would get a rise out of you NOMAD.

I wonder why it is that vagabond has that negative connotation while nomad does not? In any case, I hate to tell you NOMAD but I see no evidence that you are a nomad. Where do you move seasonally? Nomads move with the weather, season by season and they move in a defined area. Do you?

Maybe you will have to change your handle to the 'UpmarketworkingVAGABOND.' LOL

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anonymous
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Actually BP I do move around seasonally...for the last three years;

May - October in Europe

October - April in SE Asia/Australasia

Get it?

I AM A NOMAD! A MODERN NOMAD!

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