(January 7, 2022 at 11:55 pm)Astreja Wrote:(January 7, 2022 at 2:26 pm)WinterHold Wrote: the Vikings were nothing more but waves of drunken marauders ravaging people on the other shore...
False. A lot of my people did go "a-viking" but not all of us. Some were explorers (including Erik the Red and his son Leif Erikson - possibly distant relatives of mine). Some stayed home and did the usual things - raising livestock, subsistence farming, baking, fishing, weaving).
One interesting hypothesis that I've heard, but which I've been unable to confirm, is that the Scandinavian people turned militant in retaliation for attacks by Christian invaders from the south.
And it's pretty fucking hypocritical for you to point at Scandinavia when the history of Islamic atrocities continues to the present day. We got better. What's your excuse?
There is no "you": you are not a viking; you are a "modern Canadian citizen"; big difference between the two.
The vikings were an ancient nation, while you belong to a modern nation with a totally different constitution and law of life.
That ancient nation doesn't represent you unless you embrace their ideals and live like them; i.e become them.
Of course I can point fingers at marauders in history like the Mongols and the Vikings, because by looking at their legacy and conclusion I can warn modern people who follow the same path.
