The only thing we know about ship history in Denmark during this period is based on a boat found in a bog in Nydam, Southern Denmark, in 1863. With the sail began a historical period when the Norse reached all the way down to the Caspian Sea, Gibraltar, Iceland, Greenland, and America.Īccording to Ravn, researchers know little about the use of sails and maritime activities in the Nordic region between the fourth and eighth centuries. "We don’t know why they didn’t have sails earlier, perhaps they just chose not to use it" says Ravn, who believes that the Norsemen must have known about the use of sails in the seventh century. But it is not until around the seventh and eighth century that we see the sail introduced in Scandinavia," says Dr Morten Ravn, an archaeologist and curator from the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark. "Viking Age people knew about sails, at least since the birth of Christ, because they had contact with the Romans who had sails on their ships. But sails meant they could travel faster and cover longer distances, even on the high seas. We know this because Iron Age people living in Sweden are known to have navigated down Russian rivers. Read Tim Kawakami’s Talking Points blog at /kawakami.Danes, Norwegians, and Swedes of that time - around AD 700 to 1050 - also travelled by sea. September in the middle of a needy lineup. On Monday, the A’s were a different team - it just took a flip of the calendar, a return home, and the addition of Mr. So for him to come out of his skies like that, we don’t see Bob like that ever.”Ī lot had been pent up. “I agree it was pathetic the way we played in Anaheim. We need to be brought to the reality of things. “Sometimes that’s what it takes to wake up a big league ballclub. “He was right - I think we deserved what we got,” Reddick said. His players understood, and they delivered for him. Melvin is usually cool and under control - “I’m calm today!” Melvin joked before the game on Monday - and this was something very different. Melvin set the emotional stage for this on Sunday, when he blew up at the umpires (and got tossed) then at his team in a closed-door postgame meeting and finally in a short rant to reporters about his team’s performance. “You know, that’s stepping up big, because you’re going to have some nerves with a new team, a lot of expectations on you, hitting fourth, all of the above. “But that (Dunn homer) was the culmination of it. The game starts and the place is packed, and they’re already making a lot of noise. “Certainly our fans have a lot to do with it, too. “We had a lot of energy in the dugout,” Melvin said. On Monday, Dunn’s presence rebooted a lineup that had been struggling since the team traded away Yoenis Cespedes in late July (and actually had been struggling some even before that). Then yes, maybe this was a September sea change for this significant A’s season. But if the A’s get Coco Crisp back soon, if Jason Hammel’s solid eight-inning outing on Monday is more evidence that he has gotten it back together, and if the A’s move back into a comfort zone … I think we’ll make the adjustments on the tunnel run.”Ĭould this be, with 25 games left to play, the lightning bolt that turns the A’s back into a good team again? Come out of the gate and do what he did, it’s huge. “Yeah, he’s got to do a little bit of bending to get through it,” Reddick said. Problem: Dunn is 6-foot-6 and had a bit of trouble working his way under the outstretched arms of his teammates as he ambled through the phalanx. He comes up to the plate, you’re thinking to yourself, ‘Boy, wouldn’t it be something?’ “ĭunn trotted around the bases with Josh Reddick scoring ahead of him, then got to the dugout and suddenly realized he was now expected to go through the A’s “Tunnel Run” to celebrate home runs. “We’ve really been lacking early in games, energy, runs.
“I mean, fans are lined up here at 7:30 this morning, out in full force to start the game. “It had a little bit of a storybook type thing to it,” Melvin said of the Dunn blast. Kawakami: Can Adam Dunn snap A’s out of doldrums? – The Mercury News